Pety de Bruin

Pety de Bruin is a Researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at Erasmus University Rotterdam, specializing in child and adolescent mental health with a concentrated focus on emergency psychiatric services for minors. Her work bridges clinical practice and research within Erasmus MC, addressing critical gaps in psychiatric emergency care for vulnerable youth populations.

Her research interests encompass behavioral disorders, mental health emergencies, internalizing and externalizing problems, and the application of qualitative methodologies to understand professional experiences in crisis settings. She investigates the intersection of parental mental health and child outcomes, utilizing innovative approaches like child self-reports to correct biases in parental assessments. Her work consistently emphasizes adolescent and minor populations, particularly examining how factors like sex, age, and pandemic disruptions impact psychiatric emergency utilization and outcomes.

Analysis of her publication trends reveals a methodological duality: rigorous quantitative analysis of large datasets (using regression models and epidemiological approaches) combined with deep qualitative exploration of professional experiences through semistructured interviews and thematic analysis. Her research trajectory demonstrates increasing focus on external stressors (e.g., COVID-19) affecting youth mental health services, while maintaining core investigation into depressive disorders, behavioral problems, and service delivery optimization in emergency psychiatry contexts.