Dr. Joanne Mouthaan is senior assistant professor and educational coordinator for the Clinical Psychology Department of the Institute of Psychology at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Leiden University, the Netherlands. In her teaching and research she focuses on prediction, prevention and etiology of PTSD and other trauma-related psychopathology, early risk screening and early (e-health) interventions, with a special focus on injury survivors and uniformed services. Dr. Mouthaan is part of the International Consortium to Predict PTSD (ICPP) and a member of the CONNECT research group that takes part in the pan-European longitudinal study of psychosocial reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic (the ADJUST Consortium). She currently studies (digitally) innovative strategies to teach (online) therapeutic skills in the context of trauma and suicide prevention for which she received governmental and university grants. She received a Jan van Dijk Victimology Award for her PhD thesis and was nominated for the Institute of Psychology’s Best Teacher Award at Leiden University. She was the organizational chair for the 2019 ESTSS biennial conference in Rotterdam together with dr. Miriam Lommen. Dr. Mouthaan is part of the editorial board of the European Journal for Psychotraumatology, chair of the Dutch psychotrauma association (NtVP), and since 2021 board member and treasurer of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS).
