Claudi L. Bockting PhD, professor in Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at the department of Psychiatry in Amsterdam University Medical Centers and is one of the founders and directors of the interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Mental Health of the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. She also works since over 30 years as a licensed clinical psychologist. She was a visiting professor at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School at Harvard University (2023).
Her research focuses on finding potentially modifiable factors that can be targeted with innovative interventions to prevent or treat depression, anxiety and suicidality as well as increasing access of interventions in underserved populations (including those in low- to middle-income countries) by integrating technology and training non-specialists. To this end, she has developed several treatment manuals for relapse prevention and treatement of common mental health conditions, including several technology-based e-health interventions. She has also co- developed interventions for common mental conditions for the WHO .
Dr. Bockting (co-)authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals such as Nature, World Psychiatry, JAMA Psychiatry and Lancet Psychiatry and offers international intervention workshops, including digital interventions, for depression, anxiety and relapse prevention. She received an honorary doctorate of the University of Basel (2022) and an elected membership of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts for her work on improving mental health outcomes in common mental conditions worldwide. She is the recipient of Fellowships at institutions such as Beck Institute International Scholarship Philadelphia, Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Amsterdam, and the World Health Organization.
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Together with Prof. dr. Reinout Wiers and Dr. Harm Krugers, Claudi is the director of the Centre for Urban Mental Health , part of the University of Amsterdam. The centre aims to unravel new pathways to improve urban mental health that takes into account the complexities and dynamics of mental health problems and mental health disorders in an urban environment.
Centre for Urban Mental Health
Claudi is the Chair of the Academic Collaborative Centre ‘Shift Left’, whose mission is to develop interventions both within and outside mental health care. The centre focuses on the on prevention, early treatment and relapse prevention of psychological problems and disorders (such as anxiety, depression, suicidality). The Arkin Mental Health Innovation Lab focuses on personalised E-health, the use of the social domain in interventions (such as community workers) and the promotion of social connection.
Academic Workplace Shift Left
European Association of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment
To promote innovation in the field of clinical psychology and innovate interventions and to represent clinical psychology in Europe on a policy level, Claudi has lead the European Association of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment (EACLIPT). EACLIPT aims to foster research, education, and dissemination of scientifically evaluated findings on mental disorders and their treatment. Such efforts resulted in representation of the EACLIPT in the European Parliament in the last years.
Policy and Advice
On a national policy level, Claudi is an advisor of the advisory board of the Dutch government (kennisring Raad voor Samenleving) and a member of the multi-disciplinary clinical guideline committee Depression for more than a decade.