As Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Amsterdam, my research focuses on self-harm and identity development in adolescents and young adults.
My team and I developed this website to gather information on our research projects, participation and job opportunities, and resources for those with lived experience.
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Dr. Tinne Buelens
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2023
Buelens, T., Luyckx, K., Bogaerts, A., Raymaekers, K., & Claes, L. (2023). Longitudinal development of non-suicidal self-injury disorder in adolescence: Prospective prediction of stability and change by identity development, depression, trauma, and resilience. Journal of Affective Disorders, 342, 210–217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.08.134
Dierickx, S., Claes, L., Buelens, T., Smits, D., & Kiekens, G. (2023). DSM-5 non-suicidal self-injury disorder in a community sample: comparing NSSI engagement, recency and severity among emerging adults. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1251514
Baetens, I., Van Hove, L., & Buelens, T. (2023). Family Therapy for NSSI. In The Oxford Handbook of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197611272.013.56
Buelens, T., Luckas, N., & Verschuere, B. (2023). Non-suicidal Self-Injury as Self-Directed Aggression in Community, Clinical, and Forensic Populations. In Handbook of Anger, Aggression, and Violence (pp. 357–374). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31547-3_19
Raemen, L., Claes, L., Buelens, T., Vankerckhoven, L., Van Oudenhove, L., & Luyckx, K. (2023). Personal identity, somatic symptoms, and symptom-related thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in adolescence: Examining between- and within-person associations and the role of depressive symptoms. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 52(9), 1933–1949. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-023-01811-9
Eggermont, K., Raymaekers, K., Claes, L., Buelens, T., Bogaerts, A., & Luyckx, K. (2023). Impairment in personality functioning throughout adolescence and co-development with personality traits, emotion regulation strategies, and psychopathology. Journal of Research in Personality, 104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104380
Buelens, Luyckx, Bogaerts, Raymaekers, & Claes (2023), ‘Longitudinal development of non-suicidal self-injury disorder in adolescence: Prospective prediction of stability and change by identity development, depression, trauma, and resilience’, Journal of Affective Disorders, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.08.134
Raemen, Claes, Buelens, Vankerkhoven, Van Oudenhove & Luyckx (2023), ‘Identity, somatic symptoms, and symptom-related thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in adolescence: Examining between- and within-person associations and the role of depressive symptoms’, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-023-01811-9
Buelens, Lucas, & Verschuere (2023), ‘Non-suicidal self-injury as self-directed aggression in community, clinical, and forensic populations’, Springer Handbook of Anger, Aggression, & Violence, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31547-3_19
Bogaerts, Claes, Buelens, Raymaekers, & Luyckx (2023), ‘Trajectories of adaptive and disturbed identity dimensions in adolescence: Developmental associations with self-esteem, resilience, symptoms of depression, and borderline personality disorder, Frontiers in Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1125812
2022
Raemen, Claes, Palmeroni, Buelens, Vankerkhoven, & Luyckx (2022), ‘Identity formation and psychopathological symptoms in adolescence: Examining developmental trajectories and co-development’, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 83, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2022.101473
Eggermont, Luyckx, Smits, Bogaerts, Buelens, Bastiaens, & Claes (2022), ‘The validation of a five-item screening scale for personality disorders in Dutch-speaking community adolescents and adults’, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment (IF = ), 44(2), pp. 1 -14, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-022-09951-1
Baetens, De Ridder, & Buelens (2022), ‘Systeemtherapeutische behandeling bij zelfverwondend gedrag’, Systeemtherapie, 34(1), pp. 23 – 34
2021
Verschueren, Claes, Palmeroni, Raemen, Buelens, Moons, & Luyckx (2021), ‘Identity functioning and eating disorder symptomatology: The role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies’, Frontiers in Psychology, 12, pp. 1 – 18, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.667235
Claes, Buelens, Depestele, Dierckx, Schoevaerts, & Luyckx (2021) ‘Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in female eating disorder patients with(out) non-suicidal self-injury’, European Eating Disorders Review (IF = 3.56), https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.2836
Bogaerts, Claes, Verschueren, Buelens, Palmeroni, & Luyckx (2021) ‘Identity synthesis and confusion in Belgian adolescents and emerging adults: Age trends, gender differences, and associations with depressive symptoms’, Journal of Adolescence (IF = 2.35), 87(5), pp. 106-116, https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.adolescence.2021.01.006
2020Buelens, Costantini, Luyckx & Claes (2020) ‘Comorbidity between non-suicidal self-injury disorder and borderline personality disorder in adolescence: A graphical network approach’, Frontiers in Psychiatry (IF = 3.16). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.580922
Raemen, Luyckx, Müller, Buelens, Verschueren, & Claes (2020) ‘Non-suicidal self-injury and pathological buying in community adults and patients with eating disorders: Associations with reactive and regulative temperament’, Psychologica Belgica (IF = 1.52)
Buelens, Luyckx, Schoevaerts, Dierckx, Depestele, & Claes (2020) ‘Temperament and character traits of female eating disorder patients with(out) non-suicidal-self-injury’, Journal of Clinical Medicine (IF = 5.69), 9, pp. 1207 – 1221. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9041207
Buelens, Luyckx, Kiekens, Gandhi, Muehlenkamp, & Claes (2020) ‘Investigating the DSM-5 criteria for non-suicidal self-injury disorder in a community sample of adolescents’, Journal of Affective Disorders (IF = 4.08), 260, pp. 314–322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.09.009
Bogaerts, Claes, Buelens, Bastiaens & Luyckx (2020) ‘The Dutch SCIM in adolescents: Factor structure, longitudinal measurement invariance, and associations with identity, personality traits, and borderline personality features’, European Journal of Psychological Assessment (IF = 2.23)
2019
Buelens, Luyckx, Gandhi, Kiekens, & Claes (2019) ‘Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in adolescence: Longitudinal associations with psychological distress and rumination’, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology (IF = 3.60), 47, pp. 1569–1581. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167696818821803
Palmeroni, Claes, Verschueren, Bogaerts, Buelens, & Luyckx (2019) ‘Identity Distress Throughout Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Age Trends and Associations With Exploration and Commitment Processes’, Emerging Adulthood. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167696818821803
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2025 | Amsterdam University Fund (AUF) Grant, The Netherlands
2024 | Psychology Impact Grant (applicant), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2024 | PhD Research Grant (co-applicant), Centre for Urban Mental Health, Amsterdam
2023 | Nominee ‘AYA Recognition Award for Teaching’, Amsterdam Young Academy
2023 | PhD Starter Grant (applicant), University of Amsterdam
2022 | Nominee ‘Christiaan Hamaker Award for excellent teaching’, University of Amsterdam
2020 | Finalist “Young Researcher Award”, Clinical & Health Psychology in Children and Adolescents
2020 | “Best Presentation Award”, International Society for the Study of Self-Injury
2020 | FWO research stay grant (K217920N) for a research stay at the University of Milano Biccoca, Italy
2019 | FWO travel grant (K120920N) , San Diego, CA, USA
2016 | Erasmus+ EU Zero-Grant, Cambridge University tuition fees
2016 | Erasmus+ EU Financial Support for a Research Traineeship at Cambridge University, UK -
2025
Invited lecture ‘Self-harm in adolescence: State of the art and clinical recommendations’ at Postgraduate Programme Psychodymamic Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents in Leuven, Belgium, on 02.12.2025
2024
Presentation ‘Identification with non-suicidal self-injury in young adulthood’ at the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury in Toronto, Canada
Symposium presentation ‘Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) Throughout the Life-Span: The Prevalence and Psychosocial Characteristics of NSSI in different age groups’ at the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences in Brussels, Belgium on 30.05.20242023
Invited lecture “Non-suicidal self-injury and self-harm in adolescence” at Postgraduate Programme Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents in Leuven, Belgium on 05.12.2023
Workshop ‘Zelfverwondend gedrag in Tele-onthaal chat’ on 14.10.2023 in Antwerp, Belgium2022
Class of excellence ‘The future of non-suicidal self-injury prevention’ in Brussels, Belgium on 21.06.2022
2021
Keynote presentation ‘Zelfsabotage en zelfvernietigend gedrag in relatie tot psychologische mechanismes’ at Congres Zelfsabotage in Eindhoven, The Netherlands on 11.11.2021
Interview ‘Het brede spectrum van zelfvernietiging’ with Blik op Hulp on 06.10.2021 (https://blikophulp.nl/het-brede-spectrum-van-zelfvernietiging/)
Workshop ‘Zelfverwondend gedrag in Tele-onthaal oproepen’ on 17.11.2021 in Brussels, Belgium
Workshop ‘Omgaan met zelfverwondend gedrag in Tele-onthaal oproepen: Technieken en Vaardigheden’ on 23.11.2021 in Leuven, Belgium
Invited lecture “Non-suicidal self-injury and self-harm in adolescence” at Postgraduate Programme Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents in Leuven, Belgium on 07.12.2021
Invited lecture “State-of-the-art treatment of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents” at mArquee Multiversum, adolescent care unit on 17.03.20212020
Online oral presentation “Borderline Personality Disorder and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Disorder in Adolescence” at the International Congress of Clinical and Health Psychology in Children and Adolescents” in Alicante, Spain on 18-21.11.2020
Online poster presentation “Personality of Young Female Eating Disorder Patients with and without NSSI” at the International Congress of Clinical and Health Psychology in Children and Adolescents” in Alicante, Spain on 18-21.11.2020
Online poster presentation “Personality of Female Eating Disorder Patients with(out) NSSI” at the Conference of the Flemish Academy of Eating Disorders in Wilrijk, Belgium on 20.10.2020
Online oral presentation “Temperament and Character Dimensions of ED patients with(out) NSSI” at the Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury (ISSS) in Vienna, Austria on 25-27.06.2020
Online oral presentation “Revealing the Comorbidity Dynamics between DSM-5 Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder: A Graphical Network Approach” at the Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury (ISSS) in Vienna, Austria on 25-27.06.2020
Oral presentation “Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Disorder in Adolescents” at the Annual conference of the. Society for Research in Adolescents (SRA) in San Diego, California, USA on 19-21.03.2020 [accepted presentation, cancelled due to COVID-19]
Oral presentation “DSM-5 Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Disorder and Identity Formation in Adolescents” at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Research on Identity (ISRI) in San Diego, California, USA on 18.03.2020 [accepted presentation, cancelled due to COVID-19]
Invited lecture “Self-injurious behaviour and diagnostics in remedial educationalist care” at Master Educational Sciences: Remedial Education in Leuven, Belgium on 11.03.20202019
Invited lecture “Non-suicidal self-injury and self-harm in adolescence” at Postgraduate Programme Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents in Leuven, Belgium on 17.12.2019
Oral presentation “Research Report LIA project: Results of the First and Second Year” at the board meeting of SG PSOL [Scholengemeenschap Prov. Sec. Onderwijs Limburg; the overarching management of six schools participating in my PhD data collection project “LIA”] on 22.11.2019
Interactive workshop and oral presentation “Treatment of non-suicidal self-injury” at Suicide Prevention Conference Ligant: An end to my pain? in Houthalen-Helchteren, Belgium on 19.11.2019
Symposium presentation on “Non-suicidal self-injury (disorder) in DSM-5: A contribution to the development of clinically relevant criteria” at Flemish Conference Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (VCKJP) in Leuven, Belgium on 16-17.09.2019
Symposium presentation on “Prevalence and etiological models of NSSI in community adolescents” at the World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies in Berlin, Germany on 17-20.07.2019
Oral presentation on “Non-suicidal self-injury Disorder: A GLasso network approach” at the Psychological Networks Amsterdam Summerschool (PNASS 2019) at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 28.06.2019
Symposium presentation on “Lack of Identity as a Marker for DSM-5 Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Disorder” at the annual conference of the International Society for Research on Identity (ISRI 2019) in Naples, Italy on 13-15.05.2019
Oral presentation on “Non-suicidal self-injury in adolescence” at the Clinical Psychology Seminar at KU Leuven on 25.04.2019
Invited lecture on “The assessment and treatment of non-suicidal self-injury” for Diagnostics in Remedial Educational Care (B-KUL-P0Q80A) at KU Leuven on 03.04.2019
Presentation on “Self-injurious behaviour and identity development” at Workshops for Clinical Internship Mentors at KU Leuven on 05.02.20192018
Oral presentation on “Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Adolescence: Longitudinal Associations with Negative Emotions and Rumination” at the internal PhD seminar at KU Leuven, on 30.04.2018
Poster presentation on “Longitudinal Associations between Non-Suicidal Self-Injury, Rumination, and Depression” at the Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury (ISSS) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel on 21-23.07.20182016
Oral presentation on “Parental reflective functioning and Theory of Mind development of adoptive children” at the Conference on International Adoption at Irish College, Leuven on 21.10.2016
Poster presentation on “Parents’ attitudes towards math, children’s math anxiety and the association with math performance” at the Expert Meeting on Mathematical Thinking and Learning, Utrecht, The Netherlands on 30.09.2016
Upon graduating cum laude from my Bachelor in Psychology in 2014, I completed the Research master in Psychology (magna cum laude) at KU Leuven, Belgium in 2016. With an Erasmus+ EU grant, I was able to intern at the Research Centre for Neuroscience in Education at Cambridge University, UK and partake in the Theoretical Seminars in Cognitive and Brain Sciences from the Cambridge University Graduate Programme. In 2017, I graduated from KU Leuven with a second master in Clinical Psychology (magna cum laude), with a specialisation in child & adolescent mental health.
Under the supervision of Prof. dr. Laurence Claes and Prof. dr. Koen Luyckx and financed with 4-year FWO bursal funding, I started my doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at KU Leuven in 2017. Since then, I have been conducting empirical studies and longitudinal research to improve our understanding of non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents and young adults, specifically in light of its connections with identity development. In the meanwhile, I started a two-year postgraduate programme in attachment based family therapy (ABFT) and worked as a clinical psychologist in the ABFT team at the KU Leuven clinical practice centre, PraxisP.
Since 2021, I have been appointed as Assistant Professor Clinical Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. In this capacity, I continue to pursue my passion for clinically relevant research and have further developed my research lines on self-harm and identity in community and clinical populations.
Short biography
Research projects
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Lectures & workshops
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