Prof. dr. Tineke Abma

Tineke A, Abma (1964) is Professor of Client Participation in Elderly Care and research director at the Department of Medical Humanities, and senior researcher at the EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research of VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam. Formerly she was appointed at the Maastricht University and Erasmus University. She studied for some time in the US and has a degree in Nursing and Health Care Administration. Abma has published on client participation, including patient research partners and transdisciplinary research teams, qualitative research, narrative and responsive approaches to evaluation, organizational learning and learning communities, dialogical ethics, moral deliberation and ethics of chronic care (psychiatry and elderly care). Research topics include democratic participation of clients in decision making, autonomy and empowerment in chronic care, coercion in psychiatry, research agenda setting processes, evaluation of moral deliberation projects, and intercultural healthcare contexts. Abma received the Crebolder award for the societal impact of her work entitled “Zeggenschap in wetenschap” (Boom, 2007). She is member of the Editorial Board of Evaluation and Program Planning and the Quality of Higher Education. Since 2008 she is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Delta Psychiatric Centre in Poortugaal.

Expertise

  • Client participation and empowerment (within care, quality, policy, research; client councils; sources of resilience; illness experiences and stories).
  • Quality of chronic care (interactive improvement of care in diverse fields of care).
  • Coercion and seclusion in psychiatry (especially the reduction of seclusion in psychiatry and reduction of coercion in institutions for mentally disabled persons; evaluation of the Involuntary Hospital Admission Act, the Bopz).
  • Ethics (good care, responsibility practices, various approach to ethics, among them care ethics, dialogical ethics and nursing ethics).
  • Clinical ethics and moral deliberation (ethical support within institutions, its implementation, evaluation and moral competences).
  • Intercultural healthcare contexts (gender sensitivity and intercultural competences of professionals; intercultural interactions at the medical faculty.
  • Knowledge production and implementation (learning communities, learning organizations; interorganizational learning).
  • Program evaluation (methodology and theory of; qualitative and interactive approaches; process evaluation).
  • Qualitative research (methodology, goodness and theory of; various approaches with a special interest in creative work forms, narrative and interactive approaches and mixed methods).

Selected publications (2005-2009)

  • Abma Tineke A; Broerse Jacqueline E W (2010) Patient participation as dialogue: setting research agendas. Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy 2010;13(2):160-73.
  • Abma Tineke A; Baur Vivianne E; Molewijk Bert; Widdershoven Guy A M (2010) Inter-ethics: towards an interactive and interdependent bioethics. Bioethics 2010;24(5):242-55.
  • Baur Vivianne E; Abma Tineke A; Widdershoven Guy A M (2010) Participation of marginalized groups in evaluation: mission impossible? Evaluation and program planning 2010;33(3):238-45.
  • Dauwerse Linda; Abma T A; Wolbers John G (2010) The war in my head: coping with arteriovenous malformation after a brain haemorrhage. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2010;340():b5400.
  • Kat Linda; Schipper Karen; Knibbe Jeroen; Abma Tineke A (2010) Acquired brain injury. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2010;340():c808.
  • Abma Tineke A; Molewijk Bert; Widdershoven Guy A M (2009) Good care in ongoing dialogue. Improving the quality of care through moral deliberation and responsive evaluation. Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy 2009;17(3):217-35.
  • Abma Tineke A; Nierse Christi J; Widdershoven Guy A M (2009) Patients as partners in responsive research: methodological notions for collaborations in mixed research teams. Qualitative health research 2009;19(3):401-15.
  • Schipper K; Abma Tineke A; Hené Ronald J; Widdershoven Guy A M (2009) Polycystic kidney disease. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2009;338():b1595.
  • Guy Widdershoven, Tineke Abma & Bert Molewijk (2009). Empirical Ethics as Dialogical Practice. Bioethics 23 (4):236-248.
  • Abma Tineke A; Widdershoven Guy A M; Frederiks Brenda J M; van Hooren Rob H; van Wijmen Frans; Curfs Paul L M G (2008) Dialogical nursing ethics: the quality of freedom restrictions. Nursing ethics 2008;15(6):789-802.
  • Celik Halime; Abma Tineke A; Widdershoven Guy A; van Wijmen Frans C B; Klinge Ineke (2008) Implementation of diversity in healthcare practices: barriers and opportunities. Patient education and counseling 2008;71(1):65-71.
  • Goldsteen, Minke, Tineke Abma, Barth Oeseburg, Marjan Verkerk, Frans Verhey & Guy Widdershoven (2007) What it is to be a daughter? Identities under pressure in dementia care. Bioethics 21 (1):1–12.
  • Abma Tineke A (2006) Patients as partners in a health research agenda setting: the feasibility of a participatory methodology. Evaluation & the health professions 2006;29(4):424-39.
  • Abma Tineke A; Widdershoven Guy A M (2006) Moral deliberation in psychiatric nursing practice. Nursing ethics 2006;13(5):546-57.
  • Abma Tineke A (2005) Patient participation in health research: research with and for people with spinal cord injuries. Qualitative health research 2005;15(10):1310-28.
  • Abma Tineke A (2005) Responsive evaluation in health promotion: its value for ambiguous contexts. Health promotion international 2005;20(4):391-7.
  • Abma Tineke A; Oeseburg Barth; Widdershoven Guy A M; Goldsteen Minke; Verkerk Marian A (2005) Two women with multiple sclerosis and their caregivers: conflicting normative expectations. Nursing ethics 2005;12(5):479-92.
  • Abma Tineke A (2005) Struggling with the fragility of life: a relational-narrative approach to ethics in palliative nursing. Nursing ethics 2005;12(4):337-48.
  • Abma T A; Widdershoven G A M (2005) Sharing stories: narrative and dialogue in responsive nursing evaluation. Evaluation & the health professions 2005;28(1):90-109.

Contactmogelijkheden

Prof. dr. Tineke Abma
VU medisch centrum
Afdeling Metamedica
Van der Boechorststraat 7
1081 BT Amsterdam

Kamer: D-326
Telefoon:    +31 20 44 48219/010 4290590/06 20043654
Fax: +31 20 44 48394
E-mail: t.abma@vumc.nl

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