Services
KAS works together with various partners to develop new and better treatments for children suffering from stress or anxiety. Read more about these research projects here.
Projects by KAS
Advice line
Our advice line is available Monday to Friday from 09:00 and 17:00.
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Workshops & webinars
We provide workshops, training courses, and coaching programs on anxiety and stress in children and adolescents for professionals such as teachers, internal tutors, support coordinators and psychologists in basic and specialist mental health care.
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KAS Academy 4U!
The KAS Academy 4U! has been developed by our experts to inform children and their parents about scientific research in an interactive way.
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The LTD program at LUBEC
Is your child a bit reserved, avoids situations or worries a lot? Would you like him or her to be more daring and confident? Learn to Dare then might be for him or her.
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LTD at school
A pilot project exploring whether we can implement Learn to Dare in the school context.
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Projects by partners within Leiden University
ISA
The Intervention for Social Anxiety (ISA) project is for children and young people between the ages of 8 and 16 with social anxiety disorder and for their parents. Social anxiety is characterized by excessive fear and avoidance of social situations, in which children are mainly afraid of being negatively judged by others.
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Cool Little Kids
Cool Little Kids can help parents prevent and reduce anxiety and shyness in their child. Parents with shy and/or anxious children aged 2-6 can now participate in our project!
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Stress Less PO
Stress Less PO is developing a tailor-made programme for stress and anxiety prevention at Leiden University to provide children with the tools they need to recognise anxiety and stress and learn to deal with them in a positive way.
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Projects by partners outside Leiden University
SPACE voor OCS
SPACE stands for Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions. This treatment method is intended for parents of children and youth with anxiety and compulsive complaints. SPACE is based on working towards supportive parenting, to treat children through parents.
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Brain Warriors
The first youth platform for anxiety, compulsion and phobia.
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Samen naar Beter!
More and more young people are struggling with mental problems. In the Hollands Midden region, more than half of the young people experience mental problems. At the same time, young people indicate that there is not enough attention at school for their mental well-being, while there is a great need. To address these issues, the project Samen naar Beter! was launched with the goal of improving the mental health of young people.
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Finished projects
In Je Sas!
For young people aged 12-17 with social anxiety who suffer from shyness (e.g. difficulty speaking in front of class, meeting up with friends or making new friends).
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Stress Less
What is stress, how do you recognize it and how do you deal with it? We investigate stress lessons and skills training for students.
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KibA
Kids Beat Anxiety (KibA) helps children and young people between the ages of 7 and 14 who are very afraid of certain animals, things, or situations (for example spiders, wasps, the dentist, vomiting, clowns, dogs, blood).
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