Josefien Breedvelt, PhD

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I'm a Prudence Trust Research Fellow at King's College London, Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. I am based in the Stress and Development Lab.

My research focuses on preventing the onset and relapse of anxiety and depression.

On this website, you can find out more about my background, publications and media.

Current projects

I study how to improve the outcomes of current approaches to prevent depression and anxiety in children and young people.

Connect (PI)

I'm leading a small team funded by Wellcome for the Mental Health Data Prize. We're developing an RShiny app using Multi-Level-Modelling to explore social connection as an active ingredient for preventing depression and anxiety in adolescence.