Background
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is highly prevalent in patients with a psychotic disorder. Because a PTSD diagnosis is often missed in patients with psychosis in routine care, a valid screening instrument could be helpful.
Aims
To determine the validity of the Trauma Screening Questionnaire (TSQ) as a screening tool for PTSD among individuals with psychotic disorders.
Method

To maximize accessibility to evidence-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has widely disseminated cognitive processing therapy (CPT) and prolonged exposure (PE) therapy to VA clinicians. However, there is a lack of research on veteran preferences when presented with a range of psychotherapy and medication options. This study uses a mixed-method approach to explore veteran satisfaction with a VA PTSD specialty clinic pre-treatment orientation group, which provides education about available PTSD treatment options.

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The Life Events Checklist for DSM-5 (LEC-5) is a self-report measure designed to screen for potentially traumatic events in a respondent's lifetime. The LEC-5 assesses exposure to 16 events known to potentially result in PTSD or distress and includes one additional item assessing any other extraordinarily stressful event not captured in the first 16 items

Dit voorjaar verscheen een overzichtsstudie van Engelstalige publicaties over de gevolgen van de aanslag op de Twin Towers in New York (9/11, 2001) en de zogenaamde ‘war on terror’ (WOT) voor kinderen.  Zowel kwantitatieve, meer epidemiologische studies, als kwalitatieve analyses werden geïncludeerd. Er is breed gezocht: digitale bronnen op gebied van psychologie, geneeskunde en sociale wetenschappen zijn geraadpleegd. Studies die betrekking hadden op kinderen tussen 0 en 20 jaar en gedurende tien jaar na 2001 uitkwamen, werden opgenomen.

Voorkomen dat geradicaliseerde islamitische jongeren afreizen naar Syrië en Irak en de opvang van deze jongeren bij terugkeer zijn veelbesproken items in Nederland. Arq Psychotrauma Expert Groep werkt mee aan de ontwikkeling van een effectieve aanpak. Bestuurslid Jan Schaart en Magda Rooze, projectleider van TERRA, belichten waarom de psychologische insteek bij preventie en nazorg op dit terrein onontbeerlijk is.

Een schoolgemeenschap maakt deel uit van de samenleving en kan haar ogen niet sluiten voor wat er in die samenleving gebeurt. De actuele dreiging van terreur vraagt van iedere burger om zijn of haar
ogen en oren open te houden en de veiligheid in Nederland te beschermen. Die verantwoordelijkheid geldt uiteraard ook voor leerkrachten die voor de klas staan. Toch kan deze ‘burgerplicht’ op gespannen voet staan met de opvatting die scholen hebben over hun taak, zo betoogt Ine Spee. Scholen willen immers geen verlengstuk zijn van politie en justitie.

Within exposure-based trauma treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), imagery vividness during imaginal exposure of the traumatic memory is an understudied but potentially important predictor of treatment outcome. Further, to our knowledge, this relationship has only been studied in women to date, and never among individuals with PTSD and substance use disorders which could impact ability to produce vivid mental imagery and its impact.

Background: Three intrinsic connectivity networks in the brain, namely the central executive, salience, and default mode networks, have been identified as crucial to the understanding of higher cognitive functioning, and the functioning of these networks has been suggested to be impaired in psychopathology, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Background: The most common mental health problems among refugees are depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is an effective treatment for PTSD. However, no previous randomized controlled trial (RCT) has been published on treating PTSD symptoms in a refugee camp population.
Objective: Examining the effect of EMDR to reduce the PTSD and depression symptoms compared to a wait-list condition among Syrian refugees.

Background: The World Health Organization recently proposed significant changes to the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnostic criteria in the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).
Objective: The present study investigated the impact of these changes in two different post-conflict samples.