On the effectiveness of psychotherapy in personality disorders

This thesis is on the effectiveness of different dosages of psychotherapy in patients with personality disorder (PD). The aims of the present thesis are: 1. Explore what we know about psychotherapy for patients with PD, and what we still need to know. 2. Investigate the effectiveness of different dosages of psychotherapy for different groups of PD patients. 3. Examine a method for comparing the...

Work-family conflict in Japan: how job and home demands affect psychological distress

The aim of the present study was to examine how job and home demands are related to psychological distress in a sample of Japanese working parents with preschool children (n=196). We expected that job and home demands are partially related to psychological distress through work-to-family conflict (WFC) and family-to-work conflict (FWC), respectively. Structural equation modeling showed that, as expected, home demands were partially related to psychological distress, both directly and indirectly through FWC. In contrast, job demands were only directly related to psychological distress.

Work-Home Interaction and Psychological Strain: The Moderating Role of Sleep Quality

Sleep has been considered crucial for recovery, but little is known about the specific associations between the workGÇôfamily interface and sleep quality. Based on COR theory, the goal of this study is to examine the moderating role of sleep quality on the relationship between workGÇôhome interaction (i.e. negative workGÇôhome interaction, negative homeGÇôwork interaction, positive workGÇôhome interaction, and positive homeGÇôwork interaction) and psychological strain. A total of 273 ambulance workers from Spain participated in the study.

Was passiert nach der stationären Stabilisierung mit komplex traumatisierten PTB-Patientinnen? Die Bedeutung von Stabilisierung und Konfrontation für die Behandlung traumatisierter Frauen

Female patients diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and additional complex backgrounds mostly receive stabilizing interventions when they are transferred into German inpatient treatments. This is assuming that patients after successful stabilization will be treated afterwards with trauma-confrontational methods in an outpatient setting. The following publication has two goals: First is to offer a quantitative literature review pertaining to stabilization and confrontational methods for patients with complex PTSD.

Weighing the Costs of Disaster: Consequences, Risks, and Resilience in Individuals, Families, and Communities

Disasters typically strike quickly and cause great harm. Unfortunately, because of the spontaneous and chaotic nature of disasters, the psychological consequences have proved exceedingly difficult to assess. Published reports have often overestimated a disaster’s psychological cost to survivors, suggesting, for example, that many if not most survivors will develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), at the same time, these reports have underestimated the scope of the disaster’s broader impact in other domains.

Vulnerability factors for disaster-induced child post-traumatic stress disorder: the case for low family resilience and previous mental illness

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present study was to investigate whether parent report of family resilience predicted children's disaster-induced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and general emotional symptoms, independent of a broad range of variables including event-related factors, previous child mental illness and social connectedness. METHODS: A total of 568 children (mean age = 10.2 years, SD = 1.3) who attended public primary schools, were screened 3 months after Cyclone Larry devastated the Innisfail region of North Queensland.

Veränderte selbstwahrnehmung bei der posttraumatischen belastungsstörung = Changed self-perception in the posttraumatic stress disorder transparancy illusion and self handicapping.

Traumapatienten zeigen eine Reihe von Veränderungen in der sozialen Wahrnehmung von anderen Personen und sich selbst. In der sozialen Kognitionsforschung sind im Zusammenhang mit der sozialen Kognition die Konzepte »Transparency Illusion« (TI: Durchschautwerden-Können-Illusion) und Self-Handicapping (SH: Sich-selbst-Handicappen) beschrieben. Wir untersuchten diese beiden Phänomene mit neu entwickelten Methoden in einer Gruppenvergleichsstudie bei PTBS-Patienten. 16 Patienten mit einer partiellen oder voll ausgeprägten PTBS wurden mit einer gesunden Kontrollgruppe verglichen.

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