Isabelle Roskam is a Doctor of Psychological Sciences and a Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Louvain in Belgium. Before devoting herself to the study of parental burnout, Isabelle directed the "H2M Children" research program on the development and care of so-called "difficult" children. At the same time, she worked for 10 years as a clinician at the Saint Luc University Clinics in Brussels, in the neuropediatric unit.