Background: While many elaborated treatment protocols focus on post-traumatic stress symptoms, a large number of refugees suffer from a range of mental health problems. Thus, brief and transdiagnostic psychological interventions may be helpful first interventions for help-seeking refugees and asylum seekers in a stepped-care approach.

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Facing the rupture the Shoah marks in the history of humanity and in the life of survivors and their relatives, this article approaches long-term psychosocial consequences—after Auschwitz. The dimensions of “forgetting” in post-Nazi Germany are brought into focus by the remembering and passing on of extreme traumatic experiences of persecution.

In de afgelopen 20 jaar heeft de wereld te maken gehad met ernstige bedreigingen van de samenleving zoals de COVID-19-pandemie, klimaatverandering en oorlog. Zulke ingrijpende stressvolle en traumatische ervaringen kunnen individuen op talloze manieren negatief beïnvloeden en hebben vooral sterke gevolgen voor degenen die in dergelijke omstandigheden opgroeien. Ingrijpende jeugdervaringen, of jeugdtrauma, zijn de sterkste voorspellers van problemen op latere leeftijd, waaronder leerproblemen, (geestelijke) gezondheidsproblemen, gedragsproblemen, criminaliteit en zelfmoord.

Background: Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) can effectively prevent relapse of major depression, but there is currently insufficient evidence for efficacy against suicidal ideation during depressive episodes. We thus conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing MBCT to treatment as usual (TAU) for suppression of suicidal ideation in patients with current depression.

Introduction: Suicidal behaviour is particularly frequent in patients with psychosis. Therefore, prevention is a key objective of mental health policies. The aim of the current work is to systematically review the association between neurocognitive functioning and suicidal behaviour in patients with first-episode psychosis (FEP).

Children can develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mental health symptoms after traumatic events. This meta-analysis evaluated the influence of moderators of cognitive behavioural trauma treatment (CBTT) with caregiver involvement in traumatized children. A total of 28 studies were included, with 23 independent samples and 332 effect sizes, representing the data of 1931 children (M age = 11.10 years, SD = 2.36).

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying containment measures can be conceptualized as traumatic events. This review systematically investigates trauma-related symptoms in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and the association of the pandemic and its containment measures with trauma-related disorders or symptoms.

Background: The beneficial role of social support on posttraumatic growth (PTG) has been assumed by theoretical models and established in some studies. However, there are inconsistent findings and little knowledge on moderators. The present study aims to investigate the overall effect size of the relationship and identify factors affecting the association.

Op 17 augustus 1945 werd de onafhankelijke Republiek Indonesië uitgeroepen. Op 27 december 1949 legde Nederland zich daar, na een bloedige strijd, bij neer. Maar nog decennia lang trok het koloniale verleden diepe sporen in het onafhankelijke Indonesië.