A randomized controlled trial of Goal Management Training for executive functioning in schizophrenia spectrum disorders or psychosis risk syndromes

Background
Executive functioning is essential to daily life and severely impaired in schizophrenia and psychosis risk syndromes. Goal Management Training (GMT) is a theoretically founded, empirically supported, metacognitive strategy training program designed to improve executive functioning.

Remote training as a common tool for the different professionals involved in the acute phase after terror attacks across Europe : Perspectives from an expert panel

The acute response after a terror attack may have a crucial impact on the physical and psychological wellbeing of the victims. Preparedness of the professionals involved in the acute response is a key element to ensure effective interventions, and can be improved through trainings. Today in Europe there is a recognized lack of inter-professional and international trainings, which are important, among others, to respond to the needs and the rights of victims affected by a terrorist attack in another country than their home country.

Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and its associated factors among emergency department nurses in the Netherlands

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a trauma and stressor-related disorder that may develop as a result of experiencing, witnessing of being confronted with a traumatic event. A traumatic event is a situation that is so extreme, so severe and so powerful that it may result in unusually strong emotional, cognitieve or behavioral reactions in the person experiencing it.

Crisis Ter Apel komt door gebrek aan empathie met wie niet op ‘ons’ lijken

Sahar Noor, diversiteit & inclusiemanager, ziet een angstig en hard Nederland dat dit inhumane schandaal zelf veroorzaakt. Zij licht dit toe in dit opiniestuk.

Zevenhonderd gevluchte personen slapen op de grond. Al dagenlang. We zien beelden van deze personen, vrouwen, kinderen en mannen. Omringd door een zee van witte plastic dekens en vuilniszakken. Op de meeste beelden zie je groepjes bij elkaar. Bijna nooit een individu. Ze worden vaak gepresenteerd als ‘een groep’. In termen van ‘zij’.

Als de oorlog niet meer uit je hoofd gaat

Nederlandse militairen zijn vooral in het buitenland actief, als ondersteuning van het lokale leger of tijdens een vredesmissie. Hoewel ze worden voorbereid op de verschrikkingen die ze daar kunnen tegenkomen, houdt 4 tot 9 procent na thuiskomst last van posttraumatische stressklachten (PTSS). Hoe vergaat het hen?

 

Inwoners Bosnië herbeleven trauma door Poetins oorlog

De oorlog in Oekraïne leidt tot een herbeleving van trauma’s bij inwoners van Bosnië-Herzegovina. Dertig jaar geleden waren zij het die te lijden hadden onder de verschrikkingen van de vorige grote oorlog in Europa.

 

Personal characteristics of World War Two survivor offspring related to the presence of indirect intrusions

Background: A substantial proportion of clinical World War Two survivor offspring reports intrusions about war events they did not experience themselves. 

 

Job loss-related complicated grief symptoms : a cognitive-behavioral framework

In a significantminority of people, involuntarily job loss can result in symptoms of job loss-related complicated grief (JLCG). The present cognitive-behavioral framework is introduced to explain the underlying processes that may lead to the development and maintenance of JLCG symptoms.

Is a sense of coherence associated with prolonged grief, depression, and satisfaction with life after bereavement? : A longitudinal study

There is growing interest in psychological factors maintaining healthy functioning following adverse events. One such variable is a sense of coherence (SOC), an orientation to life comprising manageability, comprehensibility, and meaningfulness. Little research has examined the role of SOC in adjustment to bereavement. The present longitudinal study examined the role of SOC in recovery from loss, in a Danish sample (N = 221) of elderly spousally bereaved people.

 

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