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Research Institute of Child Development and Education (RICDE) RICDE

A. (Annick) Zijlstra MSc

PhD Student
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Developmental psychopathology
Photographer: Bastiaan Heus
Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 127
  • Room number: D9.00
Postal address
  • Postbus 15776
    1001 NG Amsterdam
Contact details
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  • Profile

    I work as PhD-student at the Research Institute of Child Development and Education (RICDE) of the University of Amsterdam. In my PhD, I hope to co-develop an intervention for expectant parents with mild to borderline intellectual disabilities and multiple and complex problems around pregnancy to ensure a safe environment for the newborn child. Afterward, I hope to examine the intervention on its effectiveness.

    In addition, I teach master students Child Development and Education in diagnostics (Diagnostiek naar Behandeling 2) and I supervise their master thesis.

    Expertise and research fields

    • Parents with intellectual disability
    • Good enough parenting
    • Child protection

    Media appearances

  • Research

    Research methods

    • Intervention studies
    • Intervention feasibility and fidelity
    • Casefile research
    • Scoping review
    • Comparative legal analysis

    Current research projects

    Safe Start: examine the needs for support in expectant parents with intellectual disabilities and multiple and complex problems, and further develop Safe Start and examine its effects.

    Legal possibilities to protect unborn children: examine whether and how unborn babies are protected by laws and regulations in Western Countries, and how these rights relate to the pregnant woman’s rights.

    Research grants & honours

    https://projecten.zonmw.nl/nl/project/safe-start-development-and-effectiveness-intervention-pregnant-young-women-and-their 

    Project number: 554002013

    Current cooperations

    • Expect Jeugd
    • William Schrikker Stichting Jeugdbescherming & Jeugdreclassering
    • Prof. mr. drs. Mariëlle Bruning, Universiteit Leiden
  • Teaching & PhD supervision

    MA

    • Diagnostiek naar Behandeling 2
    • Master thesis: Dossieronderzoek in de jeugdbescherming
  • Publications

    2024

    • Sterenborg, T., van Nieuwenhuijzen, M., Wissink, I. B., Zijlstra, A., & Stams, G. J. J. M. (2024). Explaining risk factors for successful Family Supervision Orders: Families with intellectual disabilities in child protection in the Netherlands. Child Maltreatment, 29(2), 297-308. https://doi.org/10.1177/10775595231159665 [details]
    • Zijlstra, A. (2024). Expectant parents with intellectual disabilities in child protection: Risk factors for child safety. Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities: JARID, 37(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.13230

    2023

    • Zijlstra, A., Joosten, D. H. J., van Nieuwenhuijzen, M., & Orobio de Castro, B. (2023). The first 1001 days: A scoping review of parenting interventions strengthening good enough parenting in parents with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/17446295231219301

    2023

    • Zijlstra, A., Snelders, M., van Nieuwenhuijzen, M., & Orobio de Castro, B. (2023). Een Veilige Start voor ieder kind: LVB en goed genoeg ouderschap in de periode van conceptie tot de eerste 1001 dagen. SoziO : Vakblad voor Sociale en Pedagogische Beroepen, 2023(3, special), 20-24. [details]

    2022

    • Zijlstra, A. (Author), van Nieuwenhuijzen, M. (Author), & Orobio de Castro, B. (Author). (2022). Factsheet Veilige Start: Er zijn als het moet voor ongeboren baby’s. Digital or Visual Products

    2023

    • Sterenborg, T., van Nieuwenhuijzen, M., Wissink, I. B., Zijlstra, A., & Stams, G. J. J. M. (2023). Weer zelf je kind opvoeden. Verklarende risico- en beschermende factoren van OTS-trajecten bij gezinnen met een LVB in Amsterdam en omstreken. Poster session presented at NEJA, Amsterdam.
    • Zijlstra, A., van Nieuwenhuijzen, M., & Orobio de Castro, B. (2023). Where child safety issues: A feasibility study into an innovative intervention for expectant parents with MBID and their newborn babies. Paper presented at European Association for Mental Health in Intellectual Disability, Helsinki, Finland.

    2022

    • Zijlstra, A., van Nieuwenhuijzen, M., & Orobio de Castro, B. (2022). Protective and risk factors in women (and their partners) with MBID and multi-problems around pregnancy.. Paper presented at IASSIDD 2022, virtual conference-parenting SIRG (Special Interest Research Group on Parents and Parenting with Intellectual Disabilities).

    Media appearance

    Talk / presentation

    • Zijlstra, A. (speaker) & Snelders, M. (speaker) (28-9-2023). LVB en goed genoeg ouderschap in de periode van conceptie tot de eerste 1001 dagen, 13E JAARCONGRES LVB, Ede.
    • Zijlstra, A. (speaker) (22-9-2023). Where child safety is concerned: A feasibility study into an innovative intervention for expectant parents with MBID and their newborn babies., European Association for Mental Health in Intellectual Disability, Helsinki.
    • Sterenborg, T. (speaker), van Nieuwenhuijzen, M. (speaker), Wissink, I. (speaker), Zijlstra, A. (speaker) & Stams, G.-J. (speaker) (22-9-2022). Weer zelf je kind opvoeden. Verklarende risicofactoren van OTS-trajecten bij gezinnen met een LVB [poster], Congres Jeugd in Onderzoek. https://jeugdinonderzoek.nl/over-jeugd-in-onderzoek/

    Others

    • Zijlstra, A. (participant) (22-11-2023). Themaochtend LVB & Ouderschap in de eerste 1000 dagen (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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  • Ancillary activities
    • Reinaerde
      Gedragsdeskundige Kind & Jeugd
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