ICF - Curriculum Vitae of Marcel Broesterhuizen
Marcel Broesterhuizen was born July 3 1949 in Nijmegen (NL). He finished secondary education at the municipal Gymnasium "Alexander Hegius" at Deventer (NL) in 1967 (classical department) and 1968 (scientific department). He studied psychology at the Catholic University (now Radboud University) in Nijmegen (NL), where he specialised in Clinical Psychology. He obtained his Masters Degree in 1977 and his Ph.D. in 1192 on a doctoral dissertation about the social-emotional development of deaf children.
As a psychologist Marcel Broesterhuizen was a member of the Dutch Institute for Psychologists (NIP), where he was registered as a Child and Youth Psychologist and as a supervisor for child and youth psychology in 1997. Marcel Broesterhuizen was registered as a Health Care Psychologist in the official register of the Dutch government.
Marcel Broesterhuizen qualified as a teacher of the deaf in 1979. He obtained certificates for three courses of Sign Language of the Netherlands.
From 1977 until July 2009 (until October 2001 fulltime, from October 2001 until July 2009 part-time) Marcel Broesterhuizen worked as a psychologist in Viataal (formerly Instituut voor Doven, IvD), an institute for the deaf at Sint-Michielsgestel (NL), for a variety of tasks and client groups:
- Therapeutic, counselling, and guidance sessions with deaf adolescents and deaf adults;
- Consultation in behalf of deaf children with problem behaviors;
- Psychological assessment of deaf and deafblind clients;
- Development of psychological tests for the social-emotional development of deaf children;
- Participation in the IvD's early intervention program: individual educational planning, parent guidance and parent courses, psychological assessment;
- Guidance of the staff of living groups of deaf clients.
In these years Marcel Broesterhuizen gave lectures and was asked for consultation in a variety of places in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands Antilles.
Since October 2001 he has been a part-time associate professor at the Catholic University of Leuven (B) in behalf of the ICF Teaching Chair for Pastoral Ministry with the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing.
Marcel Broesterhuizen's competencies and expertise is in the following fields:
- guidance and counseling of deaf adolescents and adults with psychological problems;
- guidance of parents, teachers, and boarding staff with respect to behavioral and psychological problems of deaf children;
- parent guidance;
- pastoral work with the deaf;
- psychological assessment of deaf, deafblind, severely language-impaired and multiply handicapped clients.
In July 2009, Marcel Broesterhuizen took an early retirement from Viataal, in order to work for pastoral ministry with Deaf people in the Netherlands. After a preparatory year, he will be ordained as a permanent deacon by the Bishop of 's-Hertogenbosch on 25 September 2010.
Marcel Broesterhuizen is married with Anneke Broesterhuizen-de Valk; they have four children (1977, 1979, 1982, 1987). Together they are involved in the Focolare Movement, an ecumenical movement that has its origin in the Catholic Church. They like to spend a modest part of their free time to sailing (touring and racing).
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