De coronacrisis mag met recht een wilde crisis worden genoemd. Deze crisis raakt ieder individu en iedere sector in de samenleving en het beloop is moeilijk voorspelbaar. Wij maken ons zorgen over de mentale gevolgen van de coronacrisis. Daarom zoeken we samen met onze partners naar dialoog in de samenleving. 

Met het ARQ-essay 2021 ‘Samen uit de ongetemde crisis; Goede zorg in de schaduw van corona.’ willen auteurs Marleen Kraaij-Dirkzwager, Joris Haagen en Michel Dückers bijdragen aan een samenhangende visie op de psychosociale impact van de coronacrisis.

Al meer dan 25 jaar herdenken zex Limburgse Jagers ieder jaar de dood van hun kameraad Frank Janssens. Als zijn graf geruimd dreigt te worden, gaan ze tot het uiterste om de grafsteen veilig te stellen. Psycholoog Bertine Mitima-Verloop (ARQ) gaat dieper in op deze actie en verteldt over het belang van rituelen en herdenken bij rouwverwerking. 

Background Victims of violence, accidents and threats are at risk for mental health problems. Lower coping self-efficacy and social support levels increase this risk. Although highly relevant, it is unknown if the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic amplifies these risks.

Objective: Findings on the relationship between social support and mental health problems after potentially traumatic events vary across studies. Aim of our longitudinal study is to assess to what extent initial postdisaster mental health, somatic, and social functioning problems affect social support 1.5 years later. This is relevant for the discussion about social causation versus social selection processes.

Er is weinig bekend over de effectiviteit van traumabehandeling bij vluchtelingenkinderen, terwijl veel kinderen die zijn gevlucht naar West-Europese landen als Nederland schokkende beelden op hun netvlies hebben. Om deze getraumatiseerde kinderen te helpen zijn goede interventies noodzakelijk. In het project KIEM (Kennis Innovatie Mapping) wordt onderzocht of een traumagerichte behandeling effect heeft. Huisartsen kunnen nog kinderen aanmelden voor dit onderzoek.

Background: Recent evidence showed adverse mental health outcomes associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, including trauma-related symptoms. The Global Psychotrauma Screen (GPS) is a brief instrument designed to assess a broad range of trauma-related symptoms with no available validation in the Italian population.

Background. Research exploring the longitudinal course of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms has documented four modal trajectories (low, remitting, high, and delayed), with proportions varying across studies. Heterogeneity could be due to differences in trauma types and patient demographic characteristics.

BACKGROUND 

Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) is newly included in the text revision of the DSM-5 (DSM-5-TR). So far, it is unknown if DSM-5-TR PGD is distinguishable from bereavement-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Prior research examining the distinctiveness of PTSD and pathological grief focused on non-traumatic loss samples, used outdated conceptualizations of grief disorders, and has provided mixed results.

OBJECTIVE 

The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated measures have impacted the health of many. Not all population groups are equally vulnerable to such health effects, possibly increasing health inequalities. We performed a group concept mapping procedure to define a common, contextspecific understanding of what makes people vulnerable to health effects of the pandemic and the measures. We organized a two-step, blended brainstorming session with locally involved community members, using the brainstorm focus prompt ‘What I think makes people vulnerable for the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures is . .

BACKGROUND
The capacity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to occur with delayed onset has been documented in several systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Neurobiological models of PTSD may provide insight into the mechanisms underlying the progressive increase in PTSD symptoms over time as well as into occasional occurrences of long-delayed PTSD with few prodromal symptoms. 

AIM
To obtain an overview of key concepts explaining and types of evidence supporting neurobiological underpinnings of delayed PTSD.