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Personal profile
Personal profile
Endowed professor of psychotrauma, loss, and grief after disasters and violence, University of Humanistic Studies, The Netherlands. Psychiatrist, associate director of residency training, ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre/ ARQ Centrum'45, The Netherlands.
Geert Smid (he/him) published about the prevalence, diagnosis, and treatment of PTSD and traumatic grief and stress sensitization. My current research on PTSD and traumatic grief focuses on meaning attribution, epidemiological and cultural aspects, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.
External positions
Committee Member, Schadefonds Geweldsmisdrijven
1 Sept 2025 → …
Associate Editor, Death Studies
Jul 2024 → …
Professor, ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre
1 Mar 2019 → …
Keywords
- stress
- trauma
- PTSD
- grief
- treatment
- prevention
- epidemiology
- coping
- therapy
- culture
- service-delivery approaches
- psychotrauma
- loss
- traumatic grief
- ambiguous loss
- unrecognised loss
- suicide
- euthanasia
- moral trauma
- refugees
- veterans
- police officers
- disaster victims
- bereaved families
- diversity
- sexual orientation and gender identity and expression
- life stories
- rituals
- meaning-making
Research themes
- Life course, loss and grief
- Meaning making and chaplaincy
- Care, welfare and flourishing
- Justice, diversity and inclusion
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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Geestelijke verzorging voor veteranen met morele verwonding: Een ontwikkel- en evaluatieonderzoek van een existentieel-narratieve interventie
Schuhmann, C. M. (Principal Investigator), Jacobs, G. C. (Researcher), Smid, G. E. (Researcher) & Mudde, L. M. (Principal Investigator)
1/04/22 → 29/03/24
Project: Research
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Health loss-related grief among sick-listed employees: development and validation of the health impairment grief scale
van Eersel, J. H. W., Hulshof, I. L., van Os, L. S., Smid, G. E. & Boelen, P. A., 6 Feb 2026, In: Disability and Rehabilitation. 48, 17, p. 5723-5735 13 p., PMID 9207179.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Homicide at home: setting the agenda for an international collaboration to improve support for children bereaved due to family violence
Horn, S., Hafstad, G., Molyneaux, R., Anzil, V., Bartels, L., Bui, E., Carmichael, V., Creupelandt, C., Devaney, J., Fernandez, A., Gindt, M., Goncalves, M., Groot, A., Haag, A.-C., Harper, B., Joy, K., Kassam-Adams, N., Kurdi, Z., Landolt, M. A. & Lenferink, L. I. M. & 11 others, , 14 Aug 2026, In: European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 17, 1, 11 p., 2692769.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Meaning-making following sexual abuse: a scoping review and meta-synthesis
Smid, G. E., Lind, J. & Kruizinga, R., 24 Mar 2026, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 17, p. 1798844 19 p., 1798844.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › Academic › peer-review
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The prevalence of prolonged grief disorder in patients with common mental disorders: a comparative study between patients with and without a refugee background in the Netherlands
Groen, S. P. N., Cath, D. C., van den Brink, R. H. S. & Smid, G. E., 29 Jul 2026, In: Frontiers in Psychiatry. 17, 8 p., 1809816.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Betekenisgeving en rituelen bij persisterende en traumatische rouw
Smid, G. E. & Wojtkowiak, J., 1 Mar 2025, In: PsyXpert . 11, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Professional
Datasets
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Replication Data for: Reciprocal relations between job loss-related grief reactions and quality of job search behaviour: A cross-lagged analysis
van Eersel, J. (Creator), Hulshof, I. (Contributor), I. Wickham, M. (Creator), Smid, G. (Creator) & Boelen, P. (Contributor), DataverseNL, 4 Dec 2025
DOI: 10.34894/1b1inc
Dataset
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Replication Data for: Health loss-related grief among sick-listed employees - Development and validation of the Health Impairment Grief Scale
van Eersel, J. (Creator), Hulshof, I. (Contributor), van Os, L. (Contributor), Smid, G. (Contributor) & Boelen, P. (Contributor), DataverseNL, 22 Dec 2025
DOI: 10.34894/u0mxrw
Dataset
Activities
- 1 Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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Geestelijke verzorging in het asielzoekerscentrum
Dronkers, P. (Organiser), Smid, G. E. (Member of programme committee) & Jacobs, G. C. (Member of programme committee)
23 Nov 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Press/Media
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Na euthanasie minder rouwklachten bij nabestaanden dan na zelfdoding
15/09/22
1 item of Media coverage, 1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Interview or expert commentary
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Rouw kan ook een aandoening worden
31/10/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Interview or expert commentary
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Verlies en rouw tijdens corona: De stilte in huis werd ineens heel luid
31/10/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Interview or expert commentary
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Traumaspecialist verwacht meer rouwstoornissen door karige steun en sobere uitvaarten
29/09/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Interview or expert commentary
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Rouwen zonder fysiek afscheid: psychiater Geert Smid legt uit hoe je dat doet
29/05/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Interview or expert commentary