This symposium brings together developmental, clinical, and systemic perspectives to explore how parent-child interactions and stressful experiences intertwine with psychopathology across generations. Talks will address the intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment and anxiety, family perspectives in adolescent depression, and parent–child interactions following loss and grief.
The symposium includes an interactive workshop introducing systemic therapy principles, offering a relational lens for understanding and intervening in these complex dynamics. Together, these contributions will highlight the importance of taking into account various perspectives and how studying parent–child interactions provides a powerful window into both underlying mechanisms and the treatment of psychopathology.
Date
November 27-28, 2025
Location
Landgoed de Horst, Driebergen, The Netherlands
www.landgoeddehorst.nl
Organization
Cosima Nimphy (UvL), Irina Masselman (RUG)
| Thursday November 27 | Friday November 28 | ||
| 10.15 – 10.45 | Welcome + Coffee/Tea | 9.30 – 10.00 | PhD talk 1: Anouk van den Brand
Cognitive processes in preschoolers’ food rejection |
| 10.45 – 11.00 | Opening by organizers | 10.00 – 10.30 |
PhD talk 2: Open |
| 11.00 – 12.00 | Wilma Wentholt (Leiden University)
Disentangling family perspectives in the context of adolescent depression. |
10.30 – 11.00 | PhD talk 3: Open |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | dr. Lonneke Lenferink (Twente University)
Grief is a family affair |
11.00 – 12.00 | dr. Marie-Louise Kullberg (Leiden University)
From cohorts to clinic – The intergeneration transmission of child maltreatment and parent-child interactions.
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| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch | 12.00 – 13.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 – 17.00 | Workshop System therapy by Marloes Philippa-Kunzel This workshop offers a systemic and relational perspective on complaints, problems, and concerns, introducing participants to the core principles of systemic thinking. |
13.00 – 13.30 |
PhD talk 4: Nicolás García Mejía Psychotherapy for PTSD – a scoping review of how change during treatment has been studied |
| 13.30 – 14.30 |
dr. Cosima Nimphy (Leiden University) Parent-child interactions and the intergenerational transmission of anxiety disorders.
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| 14.30 – 15.00 | Closing | ||