Een groep jongeren ligt op matrassen op de vloer. De afgelopen nacht zijn ze vanuit Eritrea naar Ethiopië gelopen op plastic schoenen. Het zijn vooral jonge mannen; 18,19 en zelfs 14 jaar. Aan de Ethiopische kant zijn ze bij de grens door soldaten opgepikt en naar een klein verzamelpunt voor migranten gebracht.

The Traumatic Grief Inventory Self-Report version (TGI-SR) is an 18-item self-report measure. It was designed to assess symptoms of Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder (PCBD) included in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-5 and Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) proposed by an international group of experts in grief. The research in this article used data from a bereaved patient sample and people who lost loved ones in the Ukrainian airplane crash in July 2014.

A pioneering university research project is aiming to treat military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. Here, one former member of the Armed Forces tells us why he’s championing the potential of this new technology.

Throughout history,warriors have been confronted with moral and ethical challenges and modern unconventional and guerilla wars amplify these challenges. Potentially morally injurious events, such as perpetrating, failing to prevent, or bearing witness to acts that transgress deeply held moral beliefs and expectationsmay be deleterious in the long-term, emotionally, psychologically, behaviorally, spiritually, and socially (what we label as moral injury).

While the concept of moral injury has been embraced in academic, clinical and public discourses, it is still nascent and needs development regarding the ‘moral’ in ‘moral injury’.

Bij de diagnose PTSS voor oorlogsveteranen gaat het om het psychische effect van individuele oorlogservaringen. Het steeds vaker gehanteerde begrip ‘moral injury’ stelt ook de legitimiteit van een missie aan de orde.

This paper explores the effects of war in Iraq in the period between 1991 and 2003, with a focus on the effect of economic sanctions on mental health services. The authors, Iraqi psychiatrists with direct contact with patients and events during this period, review literature and reports published contemporaneously. They describe how the mental health system in Iraq was deteriorated, not only by war, but also by United Nations imposed sanctions during the period between the first and second Iraq war.

Interventions on mental health and psychosocial wellbeing have been largely implemented in low and middle income countries. In order to adapt the support offered, an increasing number of applied research projects in mental health and psychosocial support have been conducted. However, while challenges arising can be related to the specificity of the mental health and psychosocial sector, within a broader perspective they are also strongly linked to difficulties of access to beneficiaries, security and protections issues, and competence of staff.

Wilt u graag inhoudelijk achtergrond over een specifiek psychologie- of psychiatrie-onderwerp? Lees hier actuele whitepapers (pdf’s), achtergrondartikelen, interviews en columns. Onder andere over de DSM-5 en behandelprotocollen.

Militairen doen vaak pijnlijke kennis op over de wereld – en over zichzelf. Het leidt tot grote schuldgevoelens en morele verwondingen. Vandaag is het Nederlandse Veteranendag, hoog tijd om na te denken of we die schuldgevoelens moeten zien als psychische aandoening of als inherent aan oorlog voeren.