Marlies Wintmolders

PhD Student

 

Research:

In 2015, I graduated as a clinical child psychologist. I did my internship in special youth services and went to work there after graduation. There I was introduced to the topic of attachment and the impact of ruptures in the attachment relationship between parent and child.

My PhD focuses on how attachment research can be integrated into this digital world, both at the fundamental level and in terms of clinical applications. In the fundamental part, I investigate how attachment develops in middle childhood using a Virtual Reality game. For the clinical application, FamilieLink was developed, a blended tool for parents with children aged 0 – 18 years with the aim of improving and strengthening the parent-child attachment relationship.