Background: Extremely violent events such as terrorist attacks and mass shootings form a severe risk for the health and wellbeing of affected individuals. In this study based on a public health monitor, we focus on the health impact (including PTSD symptoms, physical problems and day-to-day functioning) of the Utrecht tram shooting, which took place in the morning of March 18th 2019. A lone gunman opened fire on passengers within a moving tram. Four people died, and six people were injured in this attack.

Victims of crimes have been granted increasing procedural rights to participate in the juridical process since the mid 1990s. However, knowledge about the (anti)-therapeutic effect of participation is limited. We examined the associations between symptom levels of persistent complex bereavement disorder (PCBD), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and depression and the intention to participate in a criminal trial. Furthermore, we investigated the mediating role of state anger in these associations.

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Researchers who are aiming to conduct high quality mental health research in resettled refugee populations are likely to experience multiple challenges in their work. To our knowledge, there is no overview of these challenges and their implications for the quality of research from a researchers’ perspective. We conducted a systematic literature search to further complete the overview of challenges. Lastly, we placed the findings of the thematic analysis and the literature search in a conceptual framework derived from the social ecological model of Bronfenbrenner.

Background: Military members and police officers often operate in high stakes situations and under high levels of physical and psychological stress. Consequently, they may be confronted with morally injurious experiences and develop moral injury. Most treatments for moral injury are cognitive-behavioral, face-to-face treatments, which may be supported by online interventions. Online interventions have shown promise in the treatment of trauma-related psychopathology, but few such interventions for moral injury yet exist.

Introduction

Migration puts refugees in a completely new social context when simultaneously some have to deal with previously experienced traumatic events and post-migration stressors. Social capital and sense of coherence could be key resources to improve mental health of refugees. This study aims to examine the interplay between social capital (structural and cognitive), sense of coherence and mental health of refugees in the Netherlands.

Objective

Een van de kenmerken van een posttraumatische stressstoornis (PTSS) is een verstoorde slaap, door bijvoorbeeld nachtmerries. Nachtmerries en slapeloosheid (insomnie) zijn echter niet de enige slaapproblemen, want ook nachtelijke paniek, slaapademhalingsstoornissen en slaapbewegingsstoornissen komen vaak voor en worden in de diagnostiek over het hoofd gezien. Het is van belang de verschillende slaapproblemen bij PTSS specifiek in kaart te brengen en te behandelen, omdat ze het herstel van PTSS kunnen verminderen of zelfs verhinderen.

'Waar is Anne Frank' van Ari Folman vergelijkt het verhaal van Anne Frank met dat van hedendaagse vluchtelingen. Kimber van Valkenburg over de educatieve waarde van deze film: "Parallellen zien tussen het verleden en heden vergt behoorlijk wat denkvaardigheden en historisch besef."

Welk verhaal over de geschiedenis willen museale en erfgoedinstellingen vertellen? En wat is de plaats die daarin is weggelegd voor de actualiteit? Vier professionals (Ardjuna Candotti, Jeroen van den Eijnde, Rik Herder en Marre Sloots) gaan in gesprek over de mogelijkheden en valkuilen in het behandelen van actuele thema's. 

Een recent essay van Dirk Moses ontketende een felle discussie onder Duitse wetenschappers over de relatie tussen het kolonialisme en de geschiedenis van de Holocaust. Matthijs Kuipers ontleedt deze Historikerstreit 2.0.