This document includes the recommendations and describes the methodology used to develop them. Important issues that should be considered when interpreting the recommendations, and translating them into practice, are highlighted. It was decided to publish the recommendations and position papers in advance of the book as they represent a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of high quality research evidence that is likely to help practitioners in their work.

For the past two decades, there has been substantial debate about whether there are qualitatively different symptom profiles that can develop in children from different types of traumatic events and life circumstances. The term “complex trauma” is often used to describe both the presumed causes and the consequences of exposure to traumatic stressors when the child has experienced other significant adversities and is manifesting more severe clinical presentations.

For the past two decades, there has been substantial debate about whether there are qualitatively different symptom profiles that can develop from different experiences of traumatic events. It has been proposed that more complex symptom profiles, called “complex PTSD,” can emerge from events that involve multiple, chronic or repeated types of traumas that are of an interpersonal nature and from which escape is difficult or impossible such as childhood abuse, domestic violence, genocide campaigns and being a prisoner of war (Herman, 1992).

Gedurende ons werk in de afgelopen twee jaar als regiocoördinator Gezondheid Statushouders merkten wij dat veel gemeenten zorgen hadden over de integratie en participatie van Eritrese nieuwkomers. Tegelijkertijd zien gemeenten de veerkracht en motivatie bij Eritrese nieuwkomers om er in Nederland wat van te maken. De weg daar naartoe is voor velen bezaaid met obstakels.

Bij een nieuwe behandelmethode voor getraumatiseerde kinderen werken een EMDR- en gezinstherapeut met elkaar samen. Een studie naar deze 'Integratieve Gehechtheidsbevorderende Traumabehandeling voor Kinderen' (IGT-K) moet aantonen of de behandeling effectief is.

A timely determination of the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prerequisite for efficient service delivery and prevention. We provide a risk estimate tool allowing a calculation of individuals’ PTSD likelihood from early predictors.

Background: The armed forces work under high pressure and in stressful environments and it is well known that being in the military is a risk factor for psychiatric problems. However, it remains unknown how prevalent psychotropic medication use is in military personnel.

Objective: To assess prevalence of psychotropic medication use in Dutch military personnel and compare to the Dutch general population.

Persistent complex bereavement disorder (PCBD) is a disorder of grief included in DSM-5. Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) is included in ICD-11. Few studies have evaluated and compared criteria sets for DSM-5 PCBD and ICD-11 PGD. The current study explored and compared the dimensionality, prevalence rates, diagnostic agreement, concurrent validity, and socio-demographic and loss-related correlates of both criteria sets.

Background and objectives
Visual Schema Displacement Therapy (VSDT) is a novel therapy which has been described as a treatment for stress and dysfunction caused by a traumatic event. Although its developers claim this therapy is quicker and more beneficial than other forms of trauma therapy, its effectiveness has not been tested.

Er zijn vele soorten schokkende gebeurtenissen: van een natuurramp, een aanslag, een ongunstig verlopen reanimatie tot een ongeval. Als het in categorieën wordt ingedeeld, zijn er gebeurtenissen met of zonder dader, incidenten die een individu treffen of een (grote) groep, en gebeurtenissen met of zonder zwaar of dodelijk letsel.