In March, the first Dutch handbook on NET, Life Stories and Psychotrauma, will be published. On this occasion, Foundation Centrum '45 is organizing a symposium on NET. At the symposium, national and international experts will highlight the theme of life stories and psychological trauma from various angles in lectures and workshops. Speakers include Dr. Maggie Schauer and Professor Thomas Elbert (...

Narrative exposure therapy (NET) is a recently developed, short-term treatment for patients with a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of multiple trauma. NET can be applied very successfully in patients with complex trauma complaints (Jongedijk, 2014, Schauer, Neuner, & Elbert, 2011). An important feature of NET is that trauma processing is never an isolated event but is always...

The current definition of a traumatic event in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5, American Psychiatric Association, 2013) may be too narrow to describe the myriad of difficult childhood experiences. Furthermore, youth may develop a distinct pattern of symptoms in relation to complex or multiple childhood trauma experiences, the proposed developmental...

Intimate partner violence is highly prevalent globally, which presents worrisome implications for mental health. As explained by the World Health Organization, women who are abused have higher rates of both suicidal ideation and suicide attempts than other women (World Health Organization [WHO], 2011). Our previous research has found that one in six women presenting to an orthopedic trauma clinic...