Providing Mental Health and Psychosocial Support interventions (MHPSS) for forcibly displaced Ukrainians in Central and Eastern Europe poses numerous challenges due to various socio-cultural and infrastructural factors. This qualitative study explored implementation barriers reported by service providers of in-person and digital MHPSS for Ukrainian refugees displaced to Poland, Romania and Slovakia due to the war. In addition, the study aimed to generate recommendations to overcome these barriers.

Een vroegkinderlijk getraumatiseerde patiënt met een diagnose van complexe posttraumatische stressstoornis (PTSS), depressie en persoonlijkheidsproblematiek vraagt in februari 2016 een second opinion aan bij een instelling voor psychotrauma. Een traumagerichte behandeling is haar ontraden: te veel risico op decompensatie. 

Twee jaar later wordt dezelfde patiënt uitgeschreven bij de instelling. Aan een PTSS-diagnose voldoet ze niet meer na een traject van intensieve exposure en EMDR-therapie. 

There is an increasing need for mental health care to adapt assessment and treatment to cultural and social variety of populations. If cultural factors are not properly assessed, patients may receive an incorrect diagnosis, or the severity of their condition may be misjudged (1). Further, a lack of clinicians’ cultural sensitivity can create communication barriers leading to a patient’s breakdown of trust in the therapeutic process and a hesitancy to communicate important information (2).

Background
There is a growing need for mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) interventions that can feasibly be provided to larger groups of people, particularly in humanitarian settings. However, scaling up mental health interventions
is notoriously difficult. There are therefore growing calls for integrating mental health outside traditional health structures, both to increase reach and to address social determinants of mental health. The objective of this

COVID-19 may pose a mental health risk to funeral service workers (FSWs). In this cross-sectional survey, 278 Dutch FSWs were assessed three months after the acute phase of the pandemic ended. The FSWs reported on burnout symptoms (BAT-12), work engagement (UWES-9), wellbeing (MHC-SF) mental health indicators, and retrospectively on work stress and perceived support during the acute phase of the pandemic. Data-analyses included descriptive statistics and linear regression. Mental health scores were compared with norm scores.

Introduction: Improved effectiveness and treatment adherence is needed in smoking cessation (SC) therapies. Another important challenge is to disrupt maladaptive drug-related memories. To achieve these goals, we developed a novel treatment strategy on the basis of motion-assisted memory desensitization and reprocessing (3MDR).

Objective: Refugees flee from countries due to war, violence, or persecution and are often exposed to potentially traumatic events (PTEs). Furthermore, they might encounter situations where they are compelled to act contrary to their moral codes or witness others acting morally wrong. Consequently, they are at risk to not only develop symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but also moral injury (MI). To date, MI in traumatized refugees has received limited research attention.

Therapietrouw is belangrijk voor het welslagen van een behandeling. Er zijn verschillende drempels voor de toeleiding van vluchtelingen naar de geestelijke gezondheidszorg (ggz). Dit geldt mogelijk ook voor de therapietrouw.

Professionals die hun beroep uitoefenen in bijvoorbeeld de veiligheid of de hulpverlening staan dag in, dag uit in de frontlinie ten behoeve van onze samenleving. Daarbij geldt dat hun werkzaamheden in bepaalde gevallen ertoe kunnen leiden dat zij (blijvende) psychische schade oplopen. Zo is de posttraumatische stressstoornis (PTSS) een bekende beroepsziekte onder militairen, boa’s, politie-, brandweer- en ambulancepersoneel (hierna: geüniformeerden), waarbij de mentale blessures vaak zijn opgelopen door het werk in de frontlinie.

Background: There is a strong causal relationship between intimate partner violence and major depressive disorder, which partly endangers women's safety across the life course and potentially affects the development of future generations. The international community has placed a high priority on addressing the intimate partner violence and the resulting burden of mental illness.