Special Issue: Psychological Resilience of Workers in High-Risk Occupations

Special Issue Papers:

Trauma-exposed Firefighters: Relationships among Posttraumatic Growth, Posttraumatic Stress, Resource Availability, Coping and Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Experience (pages 356–365)

Stressors and Coping Strategies of UK Firefighters during On-duty Incidents (pages 366–376)

A Longitudinal Pilot Study of Resilience in Canadian Military Personnel (pages 377–385)

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Attentional bias modification in veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: a case series with a personalized treatment version

Beneficial effects of attentional bias modification have been claimed for a number of anxiety disorders, but study results are variable. A recent trial in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) showed no therapeutic effects. The use of personally relevant and verbal stimuli might increase the efficacy of attentional bias modification. In an A–B case series design, we hypothesized that individualized attentional bias modification would lead to reduction of attentional bias and a decrease in PTSD symptoms.

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Special issue: New frontiers

Content:
From the editor: new frontiers
New frontiers in mental health and psychosocial wellbeing in low resource and conflict affected settings
Rethinking mental health care: bridging the credibility gap
Resource caravans and resource caravan passageways: a new paradigm for trauma responding
War experiences, daily stressors and mental health five years on: elaborations and future directions
Addressing collective trauma: conceptualisations and interventions
Using mixed methods to build knowledge of refugee mental health

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Translating Conceptualizations Into Practical Suggestions: What the Literature on Radicalization Can Offer to Practitioners

This article explores what the research literature on radicalization offers to practitioners who are coming into contact with a group which is potentially vulnerable to radicalization. This literature provides comprehensive examinations of the socioeconomic context in which extremism and radicalization can flourish, the psychological processes that individuals undergo before extremism and radicalization develop further into terrorism. and factors that can influence deradicalization and disengagement.

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Challenges in treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder

Background: Research shows that trauma-focused therapy and multimodal interventions are the two most
often used strategies in treatment of refugees suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). While
preliminary evidence suggests that trauma-focused approaches may have some efficacy, this could not be
established for multimodal interventions. However, it may be that multimodal interventions have been studied
in more treatment-resistant refugees with very high levels of psychopathology, disability, and chronicity. In the

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Giving maltreated children a voice: A study of self-reported quality of life, and the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the child-interview intervention during the investigation of reports of child maltreatment

Giving maltreated children a voice

A study of self-reported quality of life, and the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the child-interview intervention during the investigation of reports of child maltreatment

PROEFSCHRIFT

ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit Maastricht

op gezag van Rector Magnificus, Prof dr. L. Soete

volgens het besluit van het College van Decanen

in het openbaar te verdedigen

op woensdag 3 december 2014 om 16.00 uur

door

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A new generation: how refugee trauma affects parenting and child development

Elisa van Ee’s dissertation A New Generation: How refugee trauma affects parenting and child development is well written, important and interesting to read. The dissertation focuses on the relationship between the traumatization of refugee parents and the impact traumatization has on their non-traumatized children.

Van Ee is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist affiliated with Centrum 45, the Dutch national institute for specialist diagnostics and treatment of psycho-trauma resulting from persecution, war and violence.

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Symptoms, Quality of Life and level of functioning of traumatized refugees at Psychiatric Trauma Clinic in Copenhagen

Objective: To characterize physical and mental health in trauma exposed refugees by describing a population of patients with regard to background, mental health history and current health problems; and to identify pre- and post-migratory predictors of mental health.

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Psychotherapy with traumatised refugees – the design of a randomised clinical trial

There is little evidence as to which kind of psychotherapy is the most effective in the treatment of traumatised refugees. At the Competence Center for Transcultural Psychiatry, a series of clinical trials have been conducted since 2008. The first results are pending publication. The aim of this paper is to discuss some of the challenges in adapting Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to the treatment of traumatised refugees, as well as describe a randomised clinical trial designed to test two such adaptations.

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The Effectiveness of Art Therapy in the Treatment of Traumatized Adults: A Systematic Review on Art Therapy and Trauma

Art therapy has often been applied in the treatment of traumatized adults, and good results in clinical practice have been reported. However, although art therapy experts underline these benefits, the effectiveness of art therapy in trauma treatment has not been established by systematic review. The aim of this systematic review is to identify and evaluate empirical evidence of the effectiveness of art therapy for trauma treatment. As a result of the systematic review, six controlled, comparative studies on art therapy for trauma in adult patients were found.

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