Hanneke Scholtenonline
Short bio
Researcher, multidisciplinary work and collaboration, wants to understand the how's and why's, loves her high heels and coffee in the morning, walks and talks too fast.
Top-3 games
- 30 Seconds (board game)
- Thomas was Alone
- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
"Nothing any good, isn’t hard"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
About me
I was born in the Netherlands and obtained my Bachelor Pedagogy and Educational Sciences and Research Master Behavioural Science at the Radboud University Nijmegen. In my second Research Master year I tested the effectiveness of an immersive 3D video game, Dojo, in preventing adolescents’ anxiety problems. Running the project and talking to the adolescents in the study, I became enthusiastic about the impact of videogames and I decided to stay focused on video games during my PhD. With my PhD at the Developmental Psychopathology programme, I aim to design and test a video game to help youth and young adults quit smoking. In this project, I'm driven to develop an intervention that could help youth and young adults quit smoking, since there is currently no intervention available for this age group. I'm not only interested in the effectiveness of the intervention, but also want to understand how and why this game could achieve smoking cessation in youth and young adults. One of the methods I will use to obtain this knowledge is electroencephalography (EEG).
Projects I’ve worked on
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CategorySubstance AbuseDate21/04/2019Study/CourseLocation
Designing and Testing a Video Game to Help Youth Quit Smoking
About the projectSmoking is one of the leading public health problems in the world. Currently, there is no evidence-based intervention program available to help youth and young adults quit smoking. Besides the lack of high-quality research, recruitment and retention of youth and young adults are two of the most challenging aspects of the implementation and evaluation of smoking cessation interventions. We argue that limitations in current smoking cessation interventions for youth can be maximally addressed by using video games as interventions. In the current project a video game will be developed and tested on its effectiveness and mechanisms of change to help youth and young adults quit smoking.
My updates
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Hot off the press: a paper about the use of design thinking to improve mental health interventions for youth
Hanneke Scholten - 15-01-2019A new paper by Hanneke Scholten and Isabela Granic is out, published by the Journal of Medical Internet Research! Find 'Use of the Principles of Design Thinking to Address Limitations of Digital Mental Health Interventions for Youth: Viewpoint' here or read about it here.
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GEMH lab featured in Het Jeugdjournaal
Hanneke Scholten - 26-11-2018Last Friday GEMH lab was featured in Het Jeugdjournaal to explain why games can help children to overcome their problems, such as anxiety. Het Jeugdjournaal is a Dutch news show that aims to educate children about worldwide and national news.
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A short CV of failures: how failing made me more successful
Hanneke Scholten - 29-10-2018We are all so afraid of failing that we do almost everything to avoid it. We work as hard as we can, we live the most interesting and exiting social lives according to our personal Facebook and Instagram pages, and train in the gym to achieve a ‘killer body’. At the same time depression, anxiety, burnout, and even suicide rates are raising to unimaginable lengths, especially in youth and young adults. What is going on here and what factors are responsible for this contradictory phenomenon?
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Smoking cessation among youth and young adults
Hanneke Scholten - 12-10-2017This month's theme is smoking cessation and behavior change. We are looking forward to share our activities and thoughts and to start a discussion with the community.
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OCTOBER - Smoking Cessation and Behavior Change
Hanneke Scholten - 01-10-2017This month's theme is smoking cessation and behavior change. We are looking forward to share our activities and thoughts and to start a discussion with the community.
Events View all events
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16JuneAbout the event
Behavioural Science Institute Day 2017
LocationBerg en Dal
Annual conference of our research institute. GEMH Lab member Hanneke Scholten will give a talk about co-designing interventions with target populations.
My publications
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A Randomized Controlled Trial to Test the Effectiveness of an Immersive 3D Video Game for Anxiety Prevention among Adolescents
Scholten, H., Malmberg, M., Lobel, A., Engels, R. C. M. E., & Granic, I. (2016). PloS One, 11(1), e0147763. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147763
Author: Hanneke Scholten
Upload date: 01-27-2016
Worked together with
In house game designer, artist, producer and lover of games. I bring diversity, design experience and the NOISE!!!!
Creative Director
Professor and Chair of the Developmental Psychopathology department in the Behavioural Science Institute; writer; voracious podcast consumer; mother of two upstanding little gamers
Director of GEMH Lab
User Research Analyst at Ubisoft Montréal. My favorite games tell emotionally rich stories and challenge me to think differently
User Research Analyst
PhD candidate interested in using social regulation of emotion and multidisciplinary game design to promote mental health in youth. Disheveled multi-tasker and provider of snacks.
PhD-Candidate
Rutger Engels
CEO at Trimbos Institute / Professor Developmental Psychopathology Utrecht University
Maartje Luijten
Assistant Professor
Marientina Gotsis
Research Assistant Professor