274 About the author Youri Derks was born on the 11th of January 1982 in Batenburg, the Netherlands. He completed his master’s degree in clinical psychology in Nijmegen in 2006. During his time at the university of Nijmegen, Youri also completed the courses of the Neuropsychology master track and worked parttime as a workgroup teacher in a BA Methodology & Statistics course. For his master thesis, which was about psychopathy, he had the opportunity to join a research group at the forensic hospital (TBS) of the Pompestichting, Nijmegen, and to co-author three journal papers. Youri entered clinical practice with his internship in 2004 at the ‘Praktijk voor Persoonlijkheidsstoornissen (PPS)’, now known as Scelta, GGNet. After completion, he continued working there as a master’s level psychologist for two years. He then started working as a behavioral expert for the behavioral expertise unit of the criminal investigation department of the police force in Gelderland. Next to his duties for the criminal investigation department, he provided basic level psychology training to police officers and completed a bachelor’s course in criminal law at the Radboud University. During his employment for the police force, he soon started to combine his work there with working for Scelta, GGNet, again. He fully returned to GGNet in 2009 to start his training to become a licensed healthcare psychologist (GZ-psycholoog). After completing his training as a GZ-psycholoog in 2011, Youri started working in a team of mental health care professionals specialized in diagnosis and treatment of patients with early childhood trauma and/or severe PTSD. In 2013, he started his PhD-studies. He also started to provide guest lectures at the National Police Academy, teaching detectives about ADHD and ASD. Since 2018, he has been also working parttime as a teacher and MA-course coordinator at the department of Psychology, Health and Technology at the University of Twente, teaching students about the principles of (positive) cognitive behavioral therapy and providing guest lectures on several other topics such as psychodiagnostics, personality disorders, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and psychodynamic therapy. In 2019, he started his training to become a clinical psychologist at GGNet and RCSW Nijmegen. He aims to complete his training in August 2023. Being one of the founders of the Sense-IT app, Youri partakes in the Sense-IT consortiumwith clinicians and researchers from different institutes and universities. In 2021 he was appointed the role of ‘strategic policy (healthcare) professional’ (‘strategisch beleidsprofessional’) and joined the corporate steering group ‘Technology’ at GGNet.
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