Lien Goossens

Article(s) published in the ECOG eBook:

• To Binge Or Not To Binge?

Lien Goossens graduated in July 2004 as a Clinical Psychologist at Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium). From October 2004 until September 2009, she was working as a PhD student at the Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology (Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University). In March 2009 she successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled “Loss of control over eating in overweight youngsters” (promoted by Prof. Dr. Caroline Braet and funded by Special Research Funds, Ghent University). Since October 2009 she is working as a postdoctoral researcher at the same department on a postdoctoral project entitled “Environmental and interpersonal influences on the development of eating pathology in youngsters”. Next to her research tasks she is teaching practical courses at Psychology-students on the assessment and treatment of obesity and eating disorders and as a clinical psychologist she is also a member of Ghent University Child Mental Health Centre.