Marianne Welmers

About the author 185 APPENDICES About the author Marianne Welmers – van de Poll was born on February 23 1985 in Hoogeveen, the Netherlands. After completing her secondary education (Gymnasium, Carolus Clusius College Zwolle) she spent a gap year as a resident volunteer attending to young adults with cerebral palsy at Beit Tamar (Ilan Foundation) in Jerusalem, Israel. In 2004 she started her studies in Pedagogical and Educational Sciences at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. After obtaining her bachelor’s degree in 2007, she started the clinical master program in Educational Sciences (Orthopedagogiek). During her master program she participated as a research assistant in a longitudinal research project on successful treatment for adolescents in secure residential care . Based on these research activities, she wrote her masters’ thesis on involving families in secure residential care of adolescents. She finished her clinical internship at De Reeve (later: Vitree) , a specialized youth care organization for children and adolescents withMild Intellectual Disabilities (MID). After graduating in 2009, she was employed as a remedial youth psychologist in residential care at De Reeve . In 2011 she became lecturer Social Work at WindesheimUniversity of Applied Sciences, with teaching activities involving i.e. courses on the care for people with MID and multi-stressed families, training students and care workers in Motivational Interviewing, and supervising students’ internships and research projects. In 2013, she joined the newly formed research group Control in Youth Care (later: research group Youth), and participated in several research projects on process and outcome of youth and family care. She started her PhD research on alliances in home-based family treatment in 2014 and was rewarded with a grant for teachers from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Over the next years, her research activities resulted in several national and international publications and presentations and providedmaterial for education and training of (future) social work professionals in the field of (home-based) youth and family treatment. Currently, Marianne continues her teaching in social work and research in the area of youth and family care at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences.