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Dr. Tara Donker is Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and senior researcher at Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany. She is a member of the Amsterdam Publich Health (APH) research institute. She is also a licensed Health Care Psychologist and has a registration in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (VGCt). Her research focuses on early intervention and prevention of depression, anxiety and suicide, based on innovative technologies such as virtual reality and mobile apps. Her main goal is to make mental health care more accessible and scalable.
ZeroPhobia
Dr. Donker is the principal investigator and co-founder of ZeroPhobia: a low-cost mobile app using virtual reality and augmented reality for specific phobias that users can follow at home without the intervention from a therapist. Results from a RCT demonstrated large effect sizes for ZeroPhobia fear of heigts, compared to a waitlist control group. A RCT investigating effectiveness of ZeroPhobia for fear of flying has just been completed. And the RCT using Augmented Reality for fear of spiders will commence soon.
Over the years she received multiple grants from NWO (including a personal grant "Aspasia"), Fonds NutsOhra, Fonds Psychische Gezondheid, VSB fonds for projects on innovative technologies such as virtual reality in the treatment of specific phobia and online interventions for caregivers of depressed patients. She has received an Aspasia grant to conduct research into virtual reality for psychiatric disorders.
CBT Workshop by Aaron T. Beck and Judith Beck
Black Dog early career travel award
EMGO travel grant
Ancillary activities are updated daily
Co-founder of ZeroPhobia, a start-up with a social mission to make mental health care more accessible and scalable. The following mobile apps based on CBT using VR/AR are developed or will be developed and tested in the near future: fear of heights, fear of flying, fear of spiders. ZeroPhobia is a Spin-off of Vrije University.
Senior Researcher at Freiburg University
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Tara Donker (Guest editor)
Activity: Peer review and Editorial work › Editorial work › Academic
Tara Donker (Guest editor)
Activity: Peer review and Editorial work › Editorial work › Academic
W. van Ballegooijen (Organiser), J.J. Ruwaard (Organiser), T. Donker (Organiser), A. van Straten (Organiser), L. Kwakkenbos (Organiser) & J. Welling (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference › Academic
Tara Donker (Member of editorial board)
Activity: Peer review and Editorial work › Editorial work › Academic
Tara Donker (Associate editor)
Activity: Peer review and Editorial work › Editorial work › Academic