De herziene richtlijn Posttraumatische stressstoornis (PTSS) die deze week is gepubliceerd, biedt een actuele, multidisciplinaire leidraad voor diagnostiek en behandeling van PTSS bij volwassenen.

Background

Modern society is grappling with understanding and responding to women’s anger in a sociopolitical environment where, globally, violence against women is considered an epidemic, economic crises disproportionately affect women, and rights to access comprehensive reproductive health care are being eroded. There is much for women to be angry about, yet nascent scientific evidence exists on the phenomenology and consequences of women’s anger and its important link to trauma.

De laatste jaren heeft artificiële intelligentie (AI) een opvallende opmars gemaakt in allerlei aspecten van de maatschappij. Ook binnen de wetenschap zien we steeds meer inzet van AI-technologieën: van het analyseren van grote datasets tot het ondersteunen bij het schrijven van wetenschappelijke teksten. Dit redactioneel is gericht op de rol van AI bij het schrijven van wetenschappelijke artikelen en, waarom niet, redactionelen in de psychiatrie. Moeten we redactieleden blijven aanspreken om bevlogen redactionelen te schrijven of kunnen we dit beter overlaten aan AI?

Achtergrond: Er bestaat een hoge mate van comorbiditeit van de posttraumatische stressstoornis (PTSS) met de vermijdende, afhankelijke en dwangmatige (cluster C-)persoonlijkheidsstoornissen. Het is onbekend of de toevoeging van behandeling voor de persoonlijkheidsstoornis aan traumagerichte therapie leidt tot betere behandeluitkomsten.

Background: Parental post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can impact parenting and child psychosocial wellbeing. Complementing trauma-focused psychotherapy with parenting interventions can thus have important preventive value. Understanding parents’ lived experiences is necessary to tailor such interventions to their needs.

This dissertation investigates the relationship between victimization and its impacts on mental health, physical health, and biological aging. Using data from the Netherlands Twin Register (NTR) and the Co-Twin Control Design (CTCD), the research disentangles the effects of victimization from genetic and shared environmental factors, offering a clearer understanding of its consequences.

Background
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a potentially disabling condition that can lead to long-term impairments, with a significant proportion of adolescents being affected by trauma. Studies have suggested that trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) is an effective treatment for PTSD in adolescents, however, little is known about the relative advantages of different mind–body interventions. The network meta-analysis aims to evaluate and compare the efficacy of various mind–body interventions in alleviating PTSD symptoms in adolescents.

Background

Wars profoundly impact mental health with growing long lasting consequences. This study assessed the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and well-being among Sudanese affected by the ongoing conflict, with a specific focus on healthcare workers (HCWs).

Methods

Documentation and analysis of psychological states experienced by witnesses and survivors of catastrophic events is a critical concern of psychological research. This paper introduces the new corpus of written testimonies collected from nearly 1500 Ukrainian civilians from May 2022–January 2024, during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The texts are available in the original Ukrainian and the English translation. The Narratives of War (NoW) corpus additionally contains demographic and geographic data on respondents, as well as their scores in tests of PTSD symptoms and moral injury.