Aggressive behaviour is an important problem in mental health care. Aggressive behaviour does not only affect staff and other patients, but also has a negative impact on the patient self. Studies have shown that aggressive patients have a longer stay on psychiatric wards compared to non-aggressive patients. In psychiatric wards, several interventions are used to manage aggressive behaviour. In the Netherlands, seclusion has for decades been a highly common intervention to manage (imminent) aggression. During recent years, however, the use of seclusion has been heavily criticized.

Die Herausbildung psychotraumabedingter Symptomatiken stellt für Diagnostiker und Behandler eine enorme Herausforderung dar: Während unser gegenwärtiges Medizinsystem auf klar voneinander abgrenzbare und mit spezifischen Therapien behandelbare Erkrankungen ausgerichtet ist, zeigen sich Traumafolgestörungen sehr vielgestaltig und in individuell sehr unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen.

OBJECTIVE: Mental Health First Aid training is a course for the public that teaches how to give initial help to a person developing a mental health problem or in a mental health crisis. The present study evaluated the effects of Mental Health First Aid training delivered by e-learning on knowledge about mental disorders, stigmatizing attitudes and helping behaviour. METHOD: A randomized controlled trial was carried out with 262 members of the Australian public.

The Children's Responses to Trauma Inventory (CRTI) is a self-report measure for posttraumatic stress reactions in children. We validated the original CRTI through secondary data analysis of four clinical and nonclinical samples (N = 96) and expert consultation. After revision, the CRTI was further validated in 8- to 12-year-old traumatized children in the general population (N = 243). The original CRTI showed moderate to excellent reliability and both convergent and discriminant validity, but it also had limitations in formulation and scope of the items.