2021, Article / Letter to editor (Health Promotion International, (2021), pp. 1-11)Physical activity (PA) contributes to health throughout life. In particular, young people can benefit
from this. Schools can play a key role in providing learning conditions to experience meaningful PAs
aimed at inspiring students to lifelong PA. In this article, we argue the need for a salutogenic approach
in schools focussing on respecting and enhancing adolescents’ agency with regard to their PA. This
approach entails listening to adolescents’ perspectives and inviting them to participate in actively designing and carrying out PA as a prerequisite for their inclusive engagement. We unpack the concept
of agency by drawing on insights from the Capability Approach. This provides input for the integration
of agency in health promoting schools and salutogenic approaches, to enhance PA-related agency.
Finally, we outline a research agenda to, eventually, create opportunities for students in schools to
expand their PA-related agency
2021, Article in monograph or in proceedings (proceedings worden niet gepubliceerd)The way in which individuals perceive their quality of life is influenced by the contexts in which they live. Each
of them perceives these contexts differently. Moreover, individuals' perception of their possibilities to
influence their context and make use of their resources, differs greatly and appears to depend on aspects as
individual motives, limiting or stimulating factors, resources, and whether these activities are meaningful to
them. These aspects are interrelated within their contexts in complex and fluid ways. To better understand this
fluidity we contend that the conceptualization of ?agency' of individuals from the Capabilities Approach, is
useful. Agency refers to the conversion of a person's assets into realistic opportunities, allowing him/her to
exercise agency by choosing how he/she prefers to function. This conversion process is limited or enhanced by
factors in the social, physical and personal environment. This suggests that Salutogenic theory and the
Capability Approach (CA) have complementary qualities. Therefore, we propose adding the dimension of
?agency' to the dimensions of SOC in the salutogenic model to better understand and facilitate how individuals
experience quality of life.
2019, Part of book or chapter of book (Vos, N. de; Keinemans, S.; Heijst, P. van (ed.), Art Based Research voor het social domein. Op kunsten gebaseerd praktijkgericht onderzoek, pp. 145-166)
2018, Part of book or chapter of book (Huss, E.; Bos, E. (ed.), Art in Social Work Practice: Theory and Practice: International Perspectives, 1st Edition, pp. 29-43)
2017, Article / Letter to editor (Psychology of Music, vol. 46, iss. 4, (2017), pp. 568-587)Music as an effective self-regulative tool for emotions and behavioural adaptation for adolescents might enhance emotion-related skills when applied as a therapeutic school intervention. This study investigated Rap & Sing Music Therapy in a school-based programme, to support self-regulative abilities for well-being. One-hundred-and-ninety adolescents in grade 8 of a public school in the Netherlands were randomly assigned to an experimental group involving Rap & Sing Music Therapy or a control group. Both interventions were applied to six classes once a week during four months. Measurements at baseline and again after four months provided outcome data of adolescents’ psychological well-being, self-description, self-esteem and emotion regulation. Significant differences between groups on the SDQ teacher test indicated a stabilized Rap & Sing Music Therapy group, as opposed to increased problems in the control group (p = .001; ?p2 = .132). Total problem scores of all tests indicated significant improvements in the Rap & Sing Music Therapy group. The RCT results imply overall benefits of Rap & Sing Music Therapy in a school setting. There were improved effects on all measures – as they are in line with school interventions of motivational engagement in behavioural, emotional and social themes – a promising result.
2017, Article in monograph or in proceedings (European Conference for Social Work Research, pp. 144-145)In this paper we briefly introduce the Capability Approach (CA) and focus on its opportunities for social work practice and research. As the CA is purposively underspecified, we provide theoretical handles for operationalization by pointing to four topics particularly relevant to social work theory: 1) conversion factors; 2) clustering of capabilities and/or functionings; 3) adaptive preferences; 4) negation of human diversity. In order to spark practical dialogue between the multifarious perspectives on social arrangements we propose a conceptual framework for evaluating interventions and arrangements. This framework aids to construct an integral account of direct and indirect versus intended and unintended consequences of the intervention or arrangement. As such it provides promising first steps towards a practical operationalization of capability theory in social work and social work research.
2017, Article in monograph or in proceedings (Challenges in social work research – conflicts, barriers and possibilities in relation to social work., pp. 144-145)
2013, Book (monograph) Voor u ligt het boek ‘Narrativiteit in vaktherapie’, voor vaktherapeuten in de praktijk. Het doel van dit praktijkboek is om de begrippen ‘narratief werken’ en ‘narratief onderzoek’ toe te lichten en deze te verbinden aan de praktijk van de vaktherapie. Door definitie en uitleg van deze begrippen wordt het begrippenkader van de vaktherapeut itgebreid. Het helpt de vaktherapeut om te toetsen in hoeverre hij/zij werkzaam is volgens narratieve principes. Daarnaast schept het voor vaktherapeuten mogelijkheden hun werkwijzen desgewenst bij te schaven. Kennis over narrativiteit draagt zo bij aan de kwaliteit van het vaktherapeutisch werkveld.