Caroline Braet PhD

Prof. Dr. Caroline Braet is a Clinical psychologist, Behavioural therapist, and Professor at Ghent University, Faculty of Psychology. In addition to teaching assignments in the field of developmental psychopathology, she conducts research on the development of childhood obesity, its treatment, and the related problems associated with the problem of overweight children. In this context, she is also a consultant at the Medical Pediatric Center in De Haan.

She has written several books and articles on childhood obesity, including four chapters in a European ebook on childhood obesity (see: https://ebook.ecog-obesity.eu/) (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and Italian translations), a SCOPE/ECOG learning path with webinars on childhood obesity in different languages, alongside several submitted and one accepted H2020 research project: https://www.ccoproject.eu/).

She has acquired >50 granted research projects, resulting in >250 peer-reviewed scientific publications. She is a member of several European associations, including the European Child Obesity Group, the European Association for Behavior Therapy, the COST-CA16102 European Network, and the Eating Disorder Research Society. She was awarded as an honorary member of the Italian Association for Behavior Therapists (2004) and the Dutch Association for Behavior Therapists (2013).