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Bart Verkuil is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, Leiden University. and Counseling psychologist at Skils

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Safety in times of corona

We human beings excel at worrying. We have a well-honed ability to think all about the distant future, and to anticipate all the happy and not-so-happy events that await us. When we are faced with problems we cannot solve, these problems continue to float around in our memories.

Bart Verkuil • April 02, 2020

Assessing stress: a matter of the heart?

'I didn’t see it coming until it was too late' – a remark I often hear from clients suffering from burnout. They had often been pushing the limits without realizing that their stress levels were building up.

Bart Verkuil • March 23, 2017

Stress in your mind: mind the stress?

Severe stress can affect our somatic well-being – but is part of this stress created in our minds? A recent meta-analysis on the link between worrying and the physiological stress response suggests that worrying does indeed affect our heart and hormones.

Bart Verkuil • February 08, 2016

Just joking! …?! – Workplace bullying and mental health

Half a million people have suffered from bullying at work in the past year. And 80,000 of these people have been structurally humiliated, excluded, verbally abused, or threatened (TNO). What do we know about how workplace bullying affects our health?

Marc Molendijk and Bart Verkuil • September 28, 2015