During our lives, we are inevitably confronted with adversity and stress. These negative experiences can lead to mental disorders. Psychological resilience protects against adversity's damaging effects and helps maintain mental health. A deeper understanding of how psychological resilience works will allow us to improve its functioning in the future. By protecting ourselves against stress and adversity, we can reduce the burden of mental disorders and increase the well-being of society and individuals.

Met dat de oorlog in Oekraïne begon, kwam er in Nederland een ongelofelijke helpende kracht van de grond. Gemeenten, veiligheidsregio’s, gastgezinnen, vrijwilligers en hulporganisaties – medewerkers en vrijwilligers staan allemaal op om Oekraïense vluchtelingen een thuis te bieden.

Undocumented migrants are a particularly vulnerable group regarding (mental) health, living conditions, and restricted access to health care. The aim and objective of the study was to examine the prevalence and correlates of mental health problems in a help-seeking population of undocumented migrants. Observational study was performed by integrating cross-sectional questionnaire data with retrospective electronic patient record data.

In recent years, there has been a rising interest in the mental health of unaccompanied minor refugees (UMR), who are a high-risk group for mental disorders. Especially the investigation of predictive factors of the mental health of young refugees has received increasing attention. However, there has been no review on this current issue for the specific group of UMR so far.

It is estimated around 1.9 million German women were raped in the post-World War II period. Unwanted pregnancies were common and many women went on to raise these children born of sexual violence (CBSV). Now more than 70 years later, we sought to explore the perceptions of past and present relationships of CBSV with their mothers. Using a combination of qualitative methodologies, we analyzed autobiographical interviews of participants born between 1945–1955 across Germany.

The 2019 documentary film They Call Me Babu utilises historical film footage including the home movies of one Dutch family with a voiceover in Bahasa Indonesia to narrate the fictionalised experiences of a former female domestic worker in the colonial Netherlands East Indies in the closing decades of Dutch colonial rule from 1939 to 1949. By centring the experiences of ‘babu’, women who worked as nannies and nursemaids for families holding European status, the Dutch-Indonesian director Sarah Beerends endeavours to make these women visible and to narrate their viewpoints.

Holocaust and Gulag studies are witnessing the belated emergence of the Soviet experience of Jewish escapees from Nazi-occupied Poland as a lieu de mémoire in its own right. Although not commemorated in official ritual, museum spaces, or memorial sites, the sheer mass of published testimonies by survivors of this experience far outweighs the previous lack of attention to the refugees’ story. It was the agency of the refugee survivors themselves which subsequently put their Soviet experience on the mnemonic map of World War II.

Achtergrond: Een substantieel deel van de psychiatrische patiënten heeft een migratieachtergrond. Het is onduidelijk of de zorg wel aansluit bij hun zorgbehoefte.

Doel: Onderzoeken van verschillen in zorgbehoeften tussen patiënten van westerse herkomst en niet-westerse eerste- en tweedegeneratiemigranten met een ernstige psychiatrische aandoening (EPA).

We beschrijven een patiënte die na aanschaf en opleiden van een hond tot hulphond, herstel bereikte. Patiënte had een ziektegeschiedenis van meer dan 30 jaar en kreeg diagnoses zoals autismespectrumstoornis, posttraumatische stressstoornis en borderlinepersoonlijkheidsstoornis. Over de jaren was er vrijwel geen symptomatische verbetering en geen persoonlijk of maatschappelijk herstel. Er bleef sprake van ernstige emotionele labiliteit, zich onbegrepen voelen, slaapproblemen door nachtmerries en herbelevingen, zich onveilig voelen en externalisatie.

Introduction: Trauma-focused psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is effective in about half of all patients. Investigating biological systems related to prospective treatment response is important to gain insight in mechanisms predisposing patients for successful intervention. We studied if spontaneous brain activity, brain network characteristics and head motion during the resting state are associated with future treatment success.