Dr E. (Eva) Billen
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group Clinical Psychology
Area of expertise: Forensic psychology, Self-regulation, Personality, Longitudinal designs, Clinical psychology
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 129
- Room number: G1.42
Postal address
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Postbus 15915
1001 NK Amsterdam
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Profile
Eva Billen (PhD) is an assistant professor in the department of clinical psychology at the University of Amsterdam. She got her PhD at Tilburg University on improving the understanding of self-regulation in forensic settings. Her main interest is in forensic psychology and treatment. She has specific interests in self-regulation and personality, as well as changes and improvement during treatment and risk assessment. Next to this she researches harmful and risky behaviors more generally and the combination of these behaviors (e.g., self-harm and antisocial behavior), but also radicalization, personality and schemas. She has an interest in longitudinal and time-series data, both in the long-term and short-term. Research methods mostly focus on questionnaire and file data, but also include task data, observation, qualitative interviews and experience sampling methods.
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Research
Research methods
- Longitudinal designs
- Questionnaire studies
- Experience sampling methods
- Qualitative methods
Research projects (current and past)
- Using experience sampling to measure and track self-regulation on a daily basis.
- Investigating the factor structure of forensically relevant questionnaires (e.g., mindfulness, personality, schemas).
- Looking into the nature of Dual Harm (self-harm and other-harm) behavior.
- Research on radicalization/polarization.
- The use of technology for assessment and monitoring.
- Amsterdam Mental Health Study (a collaborative project between different UvA psychology staff members).
Research grants & honours
- Starting grant
Current collaborations
- Trauma, Identity and Harm lab (chair)
- ForNeuroTech
- Tactus
- ForCES (Forensic Consortium for Experience Sampling)
- Tilburg University
- University of Twente
- Fivoor
- De Waag
- Transfore
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Teaching & PhD supervision
Bachelor Psychology
- Bachelor thesis (supervisor)
- Clinical Interviewing and Diagnostic Skills (teacher)
- Psychotherapy and Therapeutic skills (teacher)
- Personality and Personality Disorders (lecturer)
Master Clinical Forensic Psychology
- Interventions (coördinator/lecturer)
- Masterthesis (coördinator/supervisor)
Master Clinical Psychology
- Masterthesis (coördinator)
Research Master
- Masterthesis and internship supervisor
- Lecturer
PhD co-supervision
- Elyan Aarts
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Publications
2026
Appiah, O. K., & Billen, E. (2026). Evaluating the Good Lives Model Among Students: The Role of Primary Goods and Self-Regulation in Achieving a Good Life. Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice, 26(2), 128-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/24732850.2024.2394528 [details]- Billen, E., Stokkers, M., van der Werff, E., & Sizoo, B. (2026). Correlates of the embittered mind: Radical, psychotic, and conspiracy ideations. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 25, Article 101104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2026.101104 [details]
- Garofalo, C., Billen, E., Adams, C., Velotti, P., Mazzeschi, C., Delvecchio, E., & Gillespie, S. M. (2026). Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire in Prison Samples: A Bass-Ackwards Approach. Assessment, 33(7), 1200-1221. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911251365742 [details]
- Yakın, D., Billen, E., Grasman, R., & Arntz, A. (2026). Multidimensional Healthy Adult Scale: Development and validation of a measurement tool to understand how the Healthy Adult works in a Turkish population. PLoS ONE, 21(3), Article e0343996. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0343996 [details]
2025
- Aarts, E. J. J., Verschuere, B., van Emmerik, A., & Billen, E. (2025). An Evaluation of the Evidence on Mobile Health Applications for Mental Health, Substance Use and Delinquency in Justice-Involved Adults and Youth: a Scoping Review: a Scoping Review. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 53(12), 1829–1842. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-025-01360-8 [details]
2024
- Sirca, C. L., & Billen, E. (2024). Predicting Academic Dishonesty: The Role of Psychopathic Traits, Perception of Academic Dishonesty, Moral Disengagement and Motivation. Journal of Academic Ethics, 22, 489–503. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-024-09506-x [details]
2022
- Billen, E., Garofalo, C., & Bogaerts, S. (2022). Self-Regulation All Bass-Ackwards: Similarities and Differences in Component Structure in Community and Forensic Psychiatric Populations. Psychological Assessment, 34(3), 247-260. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001089 [details]
- Billen, E., Garofalo, C., Schwabe, I., Jeandarme, I., & Bogaerts, S. (2022). Emotional, cognitive and behavioral self-regulation in forensic psychiatric patients: Changes over time and associations with childhood trauma, identity and personality pathology. Psychology, Crime & Law. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2022.2044813
2020
- Billen, E., Garofalo, C., Weller, J. A., Kirisci, L., Reynolds, M., Tarter, R. E., & Bogaerts, S. (2020). Bidirectional associations between self-regulation and deviance from adolescence to adulthood. Development and Psychopathology, 34, 335-344. Article 10.1017/S0954579420000656. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579420000656
- Van der Linde, R., Bogaerts, S., Garofalo, C., Blaauw, E., De Caluwé, E., Billen, E., & Spreen, M. (2020). Trajectories of Dynamic Risk Factors During Forensic Treatment: Growth Trajectory of Clinical Risk Factors in a Sample of Dutch Forensic Patients. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 64(15), 1491-1513. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X20909219
2019
- Billen, E., Garofalo, C., Vermunt, J. K., & Bogaerts, S. (2019). Trajectories of Self-control in a Forensic Psychiatric Sample: Stability and Association with Psychopathology, Criminal History, and Recidivism. Criminal justice and behavior, 46(9), 1255-1275. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093854819856051
2026
- Asscher, J., Mertens, E., Creemers, H., Aarts, E., van Emmerik, A., Verschuere, B., Billen, E., Wolffelaar, B., de Looff, P., Leijse, M., Sergiou, C.-S., van der Pol, T., Klein Schaarsberg, R., Bergwerff, C., van Berkel, S., Nibbering, N., Baten, T., Peters, A., Radi, J., & Van Gelder, J.-L. (2026). Is technologische innovatie de belofte die de forensische jeugdzorg nodig heeft? Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, 68, 155-168. https://doi.org/10.5553/TvC/0165182X2026068001009 [details]
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Appiah, O. K., & Billen, E. (2026). Evaluating the Good Lives Model Among Students: The Role of Primary Goods and Self-Regulation in Achieving a Good Life. Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice, 26(2), 128-154.