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Geert E. Smid

Endowed professor

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g.smid@uvh.nl
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Prof. dr.

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Endowed professor of psychotrauma, loss, and grief after disasters and violence, University of Humanistic Studies, The Netherlands. Psychiatrist, associate director of residency training, ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre/ ARQ Centrum’45, The Netherlands.

Geert Smid (he/him) published about the prevalence, diagnosis, and treatment of PTSD and traumatic grief and stress sensitization. My current research on PTSD and traumatic grief focuses on meaning attribution, epidemiological and cultural aspects, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.

Expertise

  • ambiguous loss
  • bereaved families
  • coping
  • culture
  • disaster victims
  • diversity
  • epidemiology
  • euthanasia
  • grief
  • life stories
  • loss
  • meaning-making
  • moral trauma
  • police officers
  • prevention
  • psychotrauma
  • PTSD
  • refugees
  • rituals
  • service-delivery approaches
  • sexual orientation and gender identity and expression
  • stress
  • suicide
  • therapy
  • trauma
  • traumatic grief
  • treatment
  • unrecognised loss
  • veterans

External positions

  • Professor
    ,
    ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre
    (from 1 March 2019)
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