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Person-centred research and training lab

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Here are a few publications by members of the laboratory. The list of publications by author name can be found on DIALpr  (https://dial.uclouvain.be/pr/boreal/) or Google Scholar  (https://scholar.google.com/)

  • Boever, C., Zech, E., & Cherblanc, J. (2024, in press). Toward a better assessment of coping with bereavement: Applicability to diverse experiences and conceptual structure of the Coping with Bereavement Questionnaire. Death Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2024.2420875

  • Boever, C., Zech, E., Cherblanc, J., & Verdon, C. (2023). Les rites funéraires restreints impactent-ils les réactions de deuil en Belgique ? Résultats préliminaires d’une étude quantitative. Etudes sur la Mort, 159, 33-50.

  • Brison, C., Zech, E., Jaeken, M., Priels, J.-M., Van Broeck, N., Verhofstadt, L., & Mikolajczak, M. (2015). Encounter groups: A way to foster psychology students’ psychological development and therapeutic attitudes? Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, 14(1), 83-99. http://doi.org/10.1080/14779757.2014.991937

  • Cherblanc, J., Côté, I., Boever, C., & Zech, E. (2024, in press). Validity of the TGI-SR+ in Francophone populations: Insights from Quebec and Belgium. Death Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2024.2420882

  • Cherblanc, J., Côté, I., Mercure, C., Boever, C., Zech, E. (2025). Rituals in grief: Why meaning matters more than numbers. Journal of Loss and Trauma. Accepted for publication.

  • Cherblanc, J., Zech, E., Cadell, S., Côté, I., Boever, C., Fernández-Alcántara, M., Bergeron-Leclerc, Ch., Maltais, D., Gauthier, G., Verdon, Ch., Grenier, J., Simard, Ch. (2025). Are mediators of grief reactions better predictors than risk factors? A study testing the role of satisfaction with rituals, perceived social support and coping strategies. Illness, Crisis & Loss, 33(1), 22-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/10541373231191316

  • Cherblanc, J., Zech, E., Gauthier, G., Verdon, C., Simard, C, Bergeron-Leclerc, C., Grenier, J., Maltais, D., Cadell, S., Sani, L., & Bacqué, M.-F. (2022). Sociographie des ritualités funéraires en temps de pandémie : des rites empêchés aux rites appropriés. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 59, 348–368. https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.12390 

  • de Condé, H., Zech, E., & Willemsen, J. (2023). Quelles sont les trajectoires de développement personnel et professionnel de thérapeutes chevronnés ? Exploration de leurs expériences. Science Psychothérapeutique/ Psychotherapie Wissenschaft, 13(2), 51-62. https://doi.org/10.30820/1664-9583-2023-2-51

  • de Condé, H., Zech, E., & Willemsen, J. (2024). The person behind the therapist: a recall study on significant events that contribute to therapists’ personal and professional development. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 27(2), 791. https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.791

  • De Soir, E., Versporten, A., Zech, E., Van Oyen, H., Kleber, R., Mylle, J., & van der Hart, O. (2015). Does exposure type impact differentially over time on the development of mental health disturbances after a technological disaster? Archives of Public Health, 73(20), 1-8. http://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-015-0066-z

  • Delespaux, E., Ryckebosch-Dayez, A. S., Heeren, A., & Zech, E. (2013). Attachment and severity of grief: The mediating role of negative appraisal and inflexible coping. Omega-Journal of Death and Dying, 67(3), 269-289. http://doi.org/10.2190/OM.67.3.b.
  • Fasse, L., & Zech, E. (2016). The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement in the test of the subjective experiences of bereaved spouses. An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Omega. Journal of Death and Dying, 74(2), 212-238. http://doi.org/10.1177/0030222815598668
  • Fernández-Alcántara, M. & Zech, E. (2017). One or multiple complicated grief(s)? The role of kinship on grief reactions. Clinical Psychological Science, 5(5), 851-857. http://doi.org/10.1177/2167702617707291

  • Fernández-Alcántara, M., Schul-Martin, L., García-Caro, M. P., Montoya-Juárez, R., Pérez-Marfil, M. N., & Zech, E. (2020). In the hospital there is no protocol for action”: Experiences and interventions in perinatal loss in Spain. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 34(4), 1063-1073. http://doi.org/10.1111/scs.12816

  • Gérain, P. & Zech, E. (2019). Informal caregiver burnout? Development of a theoretical framework to understand the impact of caregiving. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:1748. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01748

  • Gérain, P., & Zech, E. (2020). A harmful care? The association of informal caregiver burnout with depression, subjective health, and violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Advance online publication. http://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520983259

  • Gérain, P., & Zech, E. (2020). Do informal caregivers experience more burnout? A meta-analytic study. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 1-17. doi:10.1080/13548506.2020.1803372

  • Gonçalves, M. M., Lutz, W., Schwartz, B., Oliveira, J. T., Saarni, S. E., Tishby, O., Rubel, J. A., Boehnke, J. R., Montesano, A., Paiva, D., Ceridono, D., Zech, E., Willemsen, J., Saarni, S. I., Kompan Erzar, K., Janeiro, L., Gelo, O. C. G., Errázuriz, P., Holas, P., . . . Barkham, M. (2024). Developing a European Psychotherapy Consortium (EPoC): Towards adopting a single-item self-report outcome measure across European countries. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 6(3), Article e13827. https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.13827 

  • Jaeken, M., Zech, E., Brison, C., Verhofstadt, L., Van Broeck, N., & Mikolajczak, M. (2017). Helpers' self-assessment biases before and after helping skills training. Frontiers in Psychology. (Section Clinical and Health Psychology), 8, 1377. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01377

  •  Moors, F., & Zech, E. (2017). The effects of psychotherapist’s and clients’ interpersonal behaviors during a first simulated session: A lab study investigating client satisfaction. Frontiers in Psychology. (Section Clinical and Health Psychology), 8, 1868. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01868

  • Ryckebosch-Dayez, A. S., Zech, E., Mac Cord, J., & Taverne, C. (2016). Daily life stressors and coping strategies during widowhood: A diary study after one year of bereavement. Death Studies, 40(8), 461-478. http://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2016.1177750

  • Stroebe, M., Stroebe, W. Schut, H., Zech, E., & van den Bout, J. (2002). Does disclosure of emotions facilitate recovery from bereavement? Evidence from two prospective studies. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 169-179. 

  • Westrelin, N., Denève, C., Gérain, P., & Zech E. (2024). “He is changing, but I'm changing too”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of spouse caregivers' identity in the context of dementia. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 38(4), 888-897. https://doi.org/10.1111/scs.13287 

  • Willemsen, J., de Condé, H., Greta Kaluzeviciute, Greta Guogaite, Polipo, N. F., & Zech, E. (2024). A qualitative meta-analysis examining the impact of personal therapy on clinical work and personal and professional development. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 24, 853-869. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12733

  • Zech, E. & Rimé, B. (2005). Is talking about an emotional experience helpful? Effects on emotional recovery and perceived benefits. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 12, 270-287.
  • Zech, E. (2006). Psychologie du deuil. Impact et processus d'adaptation au décès d'un proche [Psychology of grief: Impact and coping processes to the death of a close person]. Editions Pierre Mardaga.
  • Zech, E. (2019). Accompagner les membres d’une famille endeuillée : Avec toujours plus de présence, respect, chaleur, compréhension empathique et d’authenticité. Médecine Palliative, 18, 239-242. doi : 10.1016/j.medpal.2019.03.003
  • Zech, E., Brison, C., Elliott, R., Rodgers, B., & Cornelius-White, J. H. D. (2018). Measuring Rogers’ Conception of Personality Development: Validation of the Strathclyde Inventory-French Version. Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, 17(2), 160-184. http://doi.org/10.1080/14779757.2018.1473788
  • Zech, E., Demaret, G., Priels, J.-M., & Demaret, C. (Eds.). (2021). La psychothérapie centrée sur la personne et expérientielle : Fondements et développements contemporains. De Boeck Supérieur.
  • Zech, E., Ryckebosch-Dayez, A.-S., & Delespaux, E. (2010). Improving the efficacy of intervention for bereaved individuals: Toward a Process-Focused Psychotherapeutic Perspective. Psychologica Belgica, 50(1-2), 103-124. http://doi.org/10.5334/pb-50-1-2-103

  • Zech, E., Westrelin, N., & Boever, C. (2023). Et après le décès d’un proche aidé… processus de croissance et de deuil chez les aidants-proches. Jusqu’à la Mort Accompagner la Vie/JALMALV, 152, 41-50.