The efficacy and effectiveness of online CBT

In 1997 ontwikkelden onderzoekers van de Universiteit van Amsterdam één van de eerste psychotherapeutische toepassingen van het World Wide Web. Ze zetten een protocol voor de behandeling van posttraumatische stress om in een website en nodigden een aantal studenten met posttraumatische stressklachten uit om zich via deze site te laten behandelen. De resultaten waren gunstig. Vrijwel alle deelnemers rapporteerden na behandeling een sterke afname van hun klachten.

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The implementation and evaluation of therapeutic touch in burn patients: An instructive experience of conducting a scientific study within a non-academic nursing setting

AbstractObjectiveEvaluation of therapeutic touch (TT) in the nursing of burn patients, post hoc evaluation of the research process in a non-academic nursing setting.Methods38 burn patients received either TT or nursing presence. On admission, days 2, 5 and 10 of hospitalization, data were collected on anxiety for pain, salivary cortisol, and pain medication. Interviews with nurses were held concerning research in a non-academic setting.ResultsAnxiety for pain was more reduced on day 10 in the TT-group. The TT-group was prescribed less morphine on day 1 and 2.

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The BASIC Ph model of coping and resiliency : theory, research and cross-cultural application

The BASIC Ph model of coping and resiliency, is developed by Prof. Mooli Lahad and Dr. Ofra Ayalon. Underpinning the model is the suggestion that every person has internal powers, or coping resources, which can be mobilized in stressful situations, the effort to survive coming from a healthy rather than a pathological instinct. The categorization of these coping resources gives the model its name: Belief, Affect, Social, Imagination, Cognition, Physical. This edited volume outlines the theory behind the BASIC Ph?

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The daily spillover and crossover of emotional labor: Faking emotions at work and at home

This diary study among 75 Spanish dual earner couples investigates whether emotional labor performed by employees at work has implications for themselves and for their partner at home. On the basis of the Spillover-Crossover model, we hypothesized that individuals' surface acting at work would spill over to the home domain, and that surface acting at home, in turn, would reduce individuals' levels of well-being. Moreover, we predicted crossover of experiences lived at home between the members of the couple.

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The day Norway cried: Proximity and distress in Norwegian citizens following the 22nd July 2011 terrorist attacks in Oslo and on Utoya Island

Terrorism may create fear and stress reactions not only in the direct victims, but also in the general population

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The dissociative subtype of posttraumatic stress disorder: rationale, clinical and neurobiological evidence, and implications

BackgroundClinical and neurobiological evidence for a dissociative subtype of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has recently been documented. A dissociative subtype of PTSD is being considered for inclusion in the forthcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition (DSM-5) to address the symptoms of depersonalization and derealization found among a subset of patients with PTSD.

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Talking to Terrorists. Understanding the Psycho-Social Motivations of Militant Jihadi Terrorists, Mass Hostage Takers, Suicide Bombers & Martyrs

Talking to Terrorists is an account, spanning over a decade, of traveling through the West Bank and Gaza, into the prisons in Iraq, down the alleyways of the Casa Blanca slums, inside Chechnya, into the radicalized neighborhoods of Belgium, the UK, France and the Netherlands, sitting with the hostages of Beslan and Nord Ost, and talking to terrorists... In it's pages, Dr. Speckhard gives us an account of what puts vulnerable individuals on the terrorist trajectory and what might also take them back off it.

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Temperamental Traits and Severity of PTSD Symptoms: Data from Longitudinal Studies of Motor Vehicle Accident Survivors

The paper presents the results of a longitudinal study of two groups of participants of motor vehicle accidents (MVA). They were investigated twice: The first time after 1–6 months (N = 362) or 12–24 months (N = 337) after a MVA, and then 1 year after the initial assessment. We assumed that, among the environmental variables (severity of experienced trauma, trauma-related prolonged stressors, other traumatic event and social support), two temperamental traits, emotional reactivity and briskness, would be factors influencing the severity of posttraumatic stress disorder.

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Terrorism, civil war, one-sided violence and global burden of disease

Armed conflict and related violence, including terrorism and one-sided violence, has profound effects on people's health and lives. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between deaths due to terrorism, civil war and one-sided violence from 1994-2000 and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) occurring in 2002 attributable to all causes and specific communicable and noncommunicable diseases.

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Terrorist's Creed : fanatical violence and the search for meaning

A study of the origins and motivations behind terrorism. Roger Griffin explores the nature of fear in post-modern society, alongside the metapolitical universe of the terrorist. This work highlights the impulsive and passionate drivers of violence.

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