Alithe van den Akker obtained a bachelor's degree in Health Psychology in 2006, and a research master's degree in Development and Socialization in Childhood and Adolescence in 2008, both from the University of Utrecht.  She worked at the research group of Clinical Child and Family Studies at Utrecht University, where she obtained her PhD. Her dissertation focused on the interrelated development of temperament/personality and parenting as determinants of internalizing and externalizing adjustment problems. At the University of Amsterdam she works as a post-doc continuinig her research on how child characteristics and the parenting context contribute to the development of problems such as anxiety, depression, aggression and delinquency.

Research interests

• child temperament and personality development in relation to social context
• etiology of adjustment problems in children and adolescents
• dyadic mother-child interaction

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