Opgroeien met racisme kan een overwoekerend effect hebben op je gezondheid. Mentaal én lichamelijk. Maar aandacht hiervoor is er nauwelijks. Laat staan erkenning. 

Nisse Benhaddaoui gaat op (zelf)onderzoek uit: hoe ontwikkelen raciale trauma's zich, wat zijn de symptomen en wat helpt ertegen?

Study Objectives: Sleep problems are common, serving as both a predictor and symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with these bidirectional relationships well established in the literature. While both sleep phenotypes and PTSD are moderately heritable, there has been a paucity of investigation into potential genetic overlap between sleep and PTSD.

Background: Virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) and augmented reality exposure therapy (ARET) are digitally assisted psychotherapies that potentially enhance posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment by increasing a patient’s sense of presence during exposure therapy. This study aimed to systematically review current evidence regarding the efficacy of VRET and ARET as PTSD treatment.

Kinderen van ‘foute ouders’… Wat moet je er mee?

Vlak na de bevrijding van Brabant in 1944 zitten de instanties behoorlijk in hun maag met de kinderen van NSB’ers en Duitsers, de ‘doodsvijanden’.

Hun ouders zijn ‘geïnterneerd’ oftewel opgesloten in kampen en gevangenissen en daar ligt niemand in de bevrijde gebieden van wakker.

Maar wat moet er gebeuren met hun kinderen?

Objective: Attending to the potential impacts, both positive and negative, of clinical work with trauma survivors on professionals themselves is a crucial aspect of clinical training and supervision. Vicarious resilience refers to unique, positive effects that transform therapists in response to witnessing trauma survivors’ resilience and recovery process. This study describes the development and exploratory factor analysis of the first instrument to assess vicarious resilience.

Data routinely collected in the emergency department after trauma have the potential to predict those at risk of later PTSD, which shows promise for computational psychiatry.

People bereaved through road traffic accidents (RTAs) are at risk for severe and disabling grief (i.e., pathological grief). Knowledge about needs and use of bereavement care, including psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, and support groups is limited. This study charted (correlates of) the needs and use of bereavement care in RTA bereaved people. Furthermore, while online grief treatment seems effective, it is unknown whether it is perceived as acceptable. Accordingly, we examined the acceptability of online treatment.

Experiencing a sudden/violent loss of a significant other is a risk factor for developing persistent complex bereavement disorder (PCBD), depression, and/or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Cognitive therapy (CT) combined with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) might be an effective treatment for bereaved people with PCBD, depression, and/or PTSD symptoms after sudden/violent loss. We tested the effects of CT + EMDR versus waitlist controls in disaster-bereaved people.

De nafase van een ramp vormt het sluitstuk van crisisbeheersing. De gemeente is wettelijk verantwoordelijk voor zowel de organisatie als de communicatie van de nafase. Het is hierin de verbinder. De gemeente houdt de zaken op het terrein van de nazorg zoveel mogelijk bij elkaar. Gemeentelijke communicatieprofessionals hebben naast crisiscommunicatie ook te maken met nazorgcommunicatie. De overheid toont zich hiermee een caring government.

Background
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a potentially chronic and disabling disorder affecting a significant minority of people exposed to trauma. Various psychological treatments have been shown to be effective, but their relative effects are not well established.

Methods

We undertook a systematic review and network meta-analyses of psychological interventions for adults with PTSD. Outcomes included PTSD symptom change scores post-treatment and at 1–4-month follow-up, and remission post-treatment.