Publications by authors named "A C Abbing"
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- The study compares the effects of two orthodontic appliances, Activator and Bionator, on children with Class II malocclusion during two-phase treatment.
- 89 patients aged around 10 years were analyzed for skeletal and dentoalveolar changes using lateral cephalograms and linear regression.
- Results indicated that the Bionator had less impact on certain angles compared to the Activator, but ultimately both appliances produced similar overall effects, with Bionator leading to more vertical growth.
Introduction: Mental health care provided to offenders with psychiatric problems in forensic settings mainly consists of verbal oriented treatments. In addition, experience-based therapies are used such as (creative) arts therapies: (visual) art therapy, music therapy, drama therapy and dance (movement) therapy. There are indications for effectiveness of arts therapies, but a systematic overview of effect studies of all arts therapies in forensic care is lacking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Adults with fixed orthodontic appliances are increasing nowadays. Compared with adolescents, adults present biological differences that might influence treatment duration. Therefore, the aim of the study was to compare duration of treatment with fixed appliances between adults and adolescents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnxiety is a major problem for many individuals, causing impairment in daily life. Art therapy is often deployed and although positive results are communicated in clinical practice, its effectiveness and working mechanisms have hardly been studied. Therefore, it is important to systematically describe the intervention process and to detect the working mechanisms to be able to evaluate them.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To explore possible working mechanisms of anxiety reduction in women with anxiety disorders, treated with art therapy (AT).
Methods: A RCT comparing AT versus waiting list (WL) condition on aspects of self-regulation. Stress regulation (heart rate and heart rate variability) and executive functioning (daily behavioural and cognitive performance aspects of executive functioning (EF)) were evaluated in a pre-post design.