Cet article traite des expériences vécues par les sapeurs-pompiers et les personnels des services d'aide médicale urgente pendant et immédiatement après les opérations de secours lors de la catastrophe de Ghislenghien. Une analyse phénoménologique indique que les sapeurs-pompiers ont rapporté plus de menaces vitales ressenties et d'exposition directe à la mort que les personnels des services d'aide médicale urgente.

Our study compared two self-screening questionnaires for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): the post-traumatic Checklist Scale (PCLS) and the Brief Screening questionnary (short scale), completed by 357 soldiers, two to six month after their return from Afghanistan. The qualifications screening scales were evaluated by comparing the diagnosis of PTSD increased by a clinician in a standardized interview conducted with 85 people in positive scale of randomly selected among the negatives. The PCLS should be taken as a reference scale for screening for PTSD.

The aim of this study is to get an insight of the interpersonal process of emotional labor, and the role of positive emotions in the interaction between the sender and receiver, while taking both the perspective of the sender and the receiver into account. We tested the influence of the perceived display of positive emotions of Dutch trainee police officers (N = 80) during an interaction with offenders on perceived authenticity and perceived performance success, incorporating the sendersGÇÖ emotion regulation technique (i.e., deep acting and surface acting).

We investigated whether inpatients suffering from comorbid complicated grief disorder benefited from an additional manualized nine-session group intervention. For this purpose, 50 patients participating in the additional complicated grief intervention were compared with 22 control patients who received treatment as usual. After grief intervention, we found large effect sizes with regard to improvement in complicated grief symptoms.