Registration

You can register now via https://members.vnop.nl

Registration costs:

	Until June 8
2 days	€ 160
1 day	€ 110
1 day for bachelor/master student	€ 50

Please note that you will first have to register as a VNOP member before you can register for the conference.

Workshops
Please indicate which workshop you would like to attend Friday afternoon when registering

TEACHING
Thrive Track – Supporting Psychology Students Through Development and Resistance
Most psychology or pedagogy students complete their studies during the developmental stage of young adulthood, a period often characterized by increasing independence, identity exploration, and making important decisions about the future. At the same time, many students navigate a broader context of societal uncertainty and pressures that can shape their personal development. Within this period of life, they are also preparing for a profession that places significant demands on their personal capacities and self-awareness.
Within the Bachelor Psychology Programme at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Thrive Track was developed as a three-year learning line focused on personal and professional skills. It supports students in developing self-reflection, self-management, self-directed learning, and interpersonal skills. Yet this process of growth often involves confronting challenges, vulnerability, and moments of resistance. In this workshop we explore the question: how can we best support students in navigating personal development and resistance while preparing for a profession that relies strongly on personal skills?

YOUTH PARTICIPATION
Betekenisvolle jongerenparticipatie: stem van jongeren in beleid en onderzoek (in Dutch)
Ervaar de meerwaarde van jongerenparticipatie in onderzoek en beleid. In deze workshop werk je met onderzoekers, jongeren en professionals aan concrete oplossingen voor vraagstukken rond mentale gezondheid bij jeugd. Ontdek hoe samenwerking, luisteren en verbinden leiden tot beter onderbouwde inzichten en creatieve uitkomsten.

PhD TOOLKIT
The PhD Coach Kit (PhD and supervisor version)
Doing a PhD can be a transformative and challenging process. Issues such as publication pressure, work-life ‘balance’, and support during periods of high workload can affect well-being and stress levels. How do you and your fellow colleagues deal with these issues? During this workshop, you will have the opportunity to discuss topics related to doing a PhD with fellow PhD students or supervisors. This may be helpful in tackling these challenging experiences. You will work with the PhD Coach Toolkit, a self-coaching tool designed to support PhD students. There will be two versions of the workshop: one for PhD students and one for academic staff (at all career stages) who are currently supervising or are going to supervise PhD students.
See for more information: https://openjournals.ugent.be/ewopinpractice/article/id/93186/

PEDAGOGY IN VNOP
Pedagogical Science and Developmental Psychology: Towards a Shared Future?
Pedagogical science and developmental psychology share a common goal: to promote healthy development and well-being of children, adolescents and emerging adults. Whereas developmental psychology mainly focuses on individual developmental processes and mechanisms, pedagogical science focuses dominantly on contextual, relational and normative contexts in which that development takes place. It analyzes how individual development is embedded in for instance parenting, family and peer processes, educational systems and broader social structures. Integrating this expertise with the expertise from developmental psychology on individual developmental processes, may allow us to understand better how young people develop—not only examining what developmental changes in children and parents are, but also why they occur in specific worlds and social contexts. Setting up a cross-disciplinary dialogue between pedagogical science and developmental psychology may be essential, if we want to come to a richer understanding of growing up in a changing society. In this roundtable discussion, we explore the differences and commonalities between both disciplines, and explore potential vantage points for a disciplinary integration: how might this benefit the young people for whom we do our science?
Roundtable with four discussants, who react to four statements about potential  differences and commonalities between the Pedagogical Sciences and Developmental Psychology, and a general discussion about potential vantage points for an integrated developmental science in the Netherlands