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Research: From the lab to the clinic

Her research aims to improve the understanding of the development, maintenance and treatment of psychopathology, with an emphasis on anxiety, depression, and obsessive compulsive disorders in (emerging) adults. Salemink focuses on underlying causal mechanisms related to cognitive and emotional processes, such as interpretation biases, attentional biases, implicit associations, and memory biases. She received several grants for her research including a VENI and VIDI grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), and grants from the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZONMW). 

The research varies from rigorous, fundamental, lab-based studies often with an experimental manipulation, to more applied research including randomized controlled trials and implementation projects in collaboration with various mental health institutes. Salemink is affiliated with Altrecht Academic Anxiety Center; the consortium New Science of Mental Disorders; and senior member of the Dutch-Flemish postgraduate research school Experimental Psychopathology.

Bridging science and practice

Salemink completed the training to become a registered cognitive behavior therapist (member of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, VGCt). She aims to build bridges between science and practice for example in her role as the Editor-in-Chief of a Dutch scientific journal Behaviour Therapy and Cognitive Therapy.

Teaching

Salemink鈥檚 teaching experience covers all levels from bachelor till post-graduate, a variety of topics, samples (adults and youth), and includes work environments outside Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. Her research expertise and clinical experience are integrated in her teaching to help students and professionals to become scientist-practitioners and to impact on the quality of psychological care within and outside the Netherlands. She is also passionate about teaching topics such as good research practices, grant writing, and leadership.