Objective: To examine potential differential responses in men and women to cognitive behavior therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Method: Fifty-two men and 56 women diagnosed with PTSD participated in randomized controlled trials of cognitive behavior therapy for PTSD. Participants were randomly allocated to either (a) exposure-only therapy (Ex) or (b) exposure-based treatment combined with cognitive restructuring (ExCR). Results: There were no significant differences between men and women in treatment response immediately after treatment in either Ex or ExCR.

De bemanning van Nederlands hospitaalschip wordt na de slag in de Javazee geïnterneerd door de Japanners en komt in Japan terecht, waar ze getuigen zijn van de atoomaanval op Hiroshima.

Anxiety and fear are evolutionary beneficial emotions that help an organism to avoid danger and threat, but anxiety becomes pathological when it significantly impairs daily functioning. Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent psychiatric disorders, and both etiology (fear learning) and involved neural circuitry are relatively well understood. In this chapter, we discuss the potential of functional MRI in understanding and detecting pathological anxiety, with a specific focus on the role of fear conditioning and extinction as a prevailing experimental and etiological model.

AIM: To highlight the harmfulness and pervasive of early and repeated exposure to family violence from the theoretical perspective of complex trauma as a developmental disorder. METHOD: A study carried out on a sample of 22 adolescents between the ages of 15 and 18, who have been entrusted to Il Faro Bologna, a Specialist Centre for child abuse and neglect. Specific areas of psychological functioning were examined. According to the NCTSN these areas are considered vulnerable to violence in primary relationships and crucial for future mental health.

This title provides guidelines for systems-based practice for a broad spectrum of civilian mental health practitioners who provide professional services to military personnel, their spouses, and their family members. The editors provide a nuts and bolts approach to military families utilizing a systems-based practice that is effective with families in the military, regardless of branch of service or the practitioner's therapeutic preference.

Beschouwing van de mogelijkheden van een sociaal-psychiatrische werkwijze bij mensen met ernstige persoonlijkheidsstoornissen: FACT (Functie Assertive Community Treatment) in combinatie met Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT). FACT blijkt goed te werken bij patiënten met ernstige persoonlijkheidsstoornissen, en een aanzienlijk deel van de patiënten blijkt onder deze omstandigheden in staat tot een psychotherapeutische behandeling en verandering (MBT).

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is an integrative psychotherapeutic approach that emphasizes the role of the brain's information processing system in ameliorating the somatic and psychological consequences of distressing events. Current emotional problems not caused by organic deficit or physical insults are conceptualized as the result of inappropriately processed memories of disturbing or traumatic experiences.

There is increasing interest in discovering mechanisms that mediate the effects of childhood stress on late-life disease morbidity and mortality. Previous studies have suggested one potential mechanism linking stress to cellular aging, disease and mortality in humans: telomere erosion. We examined telomere erosion in relation to children's exposure to violence, a salient early-life stressor, which has known long-term consequences for well-being and is a major public-health and social-welfare problem.

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, exposure to traumatic stressors, and health care utilization were examined in 84 women attending a primary health care clinic in Mogadishu, Somalia. The Somalia-Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale was used in this active warzone to measure symptoms. Nearly all women reported high levels of confrontations with violence, half described being exposed to a potentially traumatizing event. Nearly one third had significant PTSD symptoms.

This paper explores how conditions of life in a refugee camp contribute to domestic violence. It draws on the 'nested ecological model' of domestic violence, which integrates individual and family factors, socio-economic context, and culture. Displacement depletes the resources available to refugees at each of these levels. Eighteen focus group discussions were held in Kakuma refugee camp (Kenya). Most displacement-related factors identified as contributing to domestic violence are consequences of the structural conditions of refugees' lives.