Aurelie Lange

162 | Appendices Curriculum Vitae Aurelie Lange was born in Berlin on the 16th of January 1987 and completed high school at the Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden in 2005. Although she had always wanted to be a primary school teacher, she decided to start with a bachelor in Pedagogical Sciences in Utrecht. She conducted her bachelor thesis in South Africa, where she worked in a centre for children with severe mental and physical disabilities and conducted a baseline assessment before introduction of a training programme to increase the independence of the children in daily activities. During her stay in South Africa she discovered how much she enjoyed doing research, which led her to decide to do a research master in Psychological Research Methods in Notthingham (UK). Back in Utrecht she started to work as a research assistant for the research group ‘Focus on Emotions’ at the University of Leiden, where she also assisted students writing their bachelor theses. She switched to de Viersprong, centre for Personality, behaviour and family, in 2011. Working as a junior researcher for the research team on Multisystemic Therapy (MST), she was involved in a project to investigate whether MST could be adapted to suit the needs of adolescents with externalizing behavioural problems in combination with an intellectual disability (MST-ID), as well as a study on therapist adherence within MST. The latter project is described in this thesis and became the main focus of her work from 2013 on, when she was employed at the Erasmus Medical Centre as a PhD student. In 2015 she also started to do some teaching activities at the Erasmus Medical Centre. In 2017 she had the opportunity to become the principal researcher of the research team at de Viersprong, which had now become the research team on Systemic Interventions. In this role, she is involved in several projects regarding the effectiveness of established and new systemic programs at de Viersprong.