A Parental Tool to Screen for Posttraumatic Stress in Children: First Psychometric Results

The Children's Revised Impact of Event Scale (CRIES-13) is a brief self-report measure designed to screen children for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This study investigates the psychometric properties of a Dutch version of the CRIES-13–parent version and evaluates its correlation with the child version. A sample of 59 trauma-exposed children (8 years–18 years) and their parents completed an assessment including the CRIES-13 (child/parent version) along with the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-IV: Parent version. Results demonstrated good internal consistency (?

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A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of a Patient Decision Aid for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

OBJECTIVE: Patient decision aids have been used in many clinical situations to improve the patient centeredness of care. A patient decision aid for patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has not been developed or tested. The authors evaluated the effects of a patient decision aid on the patient centeredness of PTSD treatment.METHODS: The study was a randomized trial of a patient decision aid for PTSD versus treatment as usual (control group). The participants were 132 male and female veterans who presented to a single U.S.

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A safe and healthy future? : epidemiological studies on the health of asylum seekers and refugees in the Netherlands

Asielzoekers en vluchtelingen met een verblijfsvergunning hebben een hoger risico op ongunstige zwangerschapsuitkomsten, bepaalde chronische ziekten en psychische problemen dan andere inwoners van Nederland. De verhoogde risico’s hebben te maken met hun achtergrond en de omstandigheden in het gastland. In dit proefschrift staan aanbevelingen om de gezondheid van asielzoekers en vluchtelingen te verbeteren.

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A Brief Retrospective Method for Identifying Longitudinal Trajectories of Adjustment Following Acute Stress

Research increasingly indicates that prototypical trajectories of resilience, recovery, delayed, and chronic distress characterize reactions to acute adversity. However, trajectory research has been limited by the practical and methodological difficulties of obtaining pre-event and longitudinal data. In two studies, we employed a novel method in which trained interviewers provided a graphical depiction of prototypical stress trajectories to participants and asked them to select the one that best described their experience.

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A Longitudinal Investigation of Changes to Social Resources Associated With Psychological Distress Among Kurdish Torture Survivors Living in Northern Iraq

Social resources can buffer against psychological distress following potentially traumatic events. Psychological distress can also lead to social resource deterioration. This longitudinal study evaluated whether baseline psychological distress symptoms and changes in these symptoms were associated with changes in social resources 5 months later among 96 adult male (52.6%) and female treatment-seeking torture survivors residing in Kurdistan, Iraq. Adapted versions of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25, Harvard Trauma Questionnaire, and a traumatic grief measure were used.

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Seven-Year Follow-Up Study of Symptoms in Asylum Seekers and Refugees With PTSD Treated With Trauma-Focused Groups

Objective: To examine sustainability of symptom outcomes of a 1-year phase-based traumafocused, multimodal, and multicomponent group therapy in a day treatment program for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) over an average period of 7 years.

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Blurring of emotional and non-emotional memories by taxing working memory during recall.

Memories that are recalled while working memory (WM) is taxed, e.g., by making eye movements (EM), become blurred during the recall + EM and later recall, without EM. This may help to explain the effects of Eye Movement and Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in which patients make EM during trauma recall.

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Adding Complexity: Assessing the dissociative subtype of PTSD

Poster session presented at the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS), Vilnius, Lithuania.

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Spirits, Devils and Trauma. Dissociation in Uganda

This thesis originates from an interest to understand more about pathological dissociative presentations in Uganda, as a way of addressing traumatic stress and other adverse events within a cultural and social-political context

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Prolonged grief in children and adolescents: Assessment, correlates, and treatment

Many children like Bas and Eva experience stressful events as they grow up. They are faced with painful circumstances like parental divorce or the death of a loved one. Most children can overcome those experiences, but some develop such psychological problems that professional help is needed. The overall focus of this dissertation is the assessment and treatment of problematic grief in children like Bas and Eva. First, we give an overview of epidemiological aspects and a historical overview of research on problematic grief.

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