Background: Military families can experience unique stressors that may contribute towards poorer well-being among the spouses/partners of Service personnel. However, there is little UK research regarding mental health or alcohol consumption among this population.

Objective: This study examined mental health outcomes (probable depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)) and alcohol consumption among UK military spouses/ partners compared to women in the general population. Associations with military and socio-demographic characteristics were examined.

Background: Emotion regulation difficulties are common among individuals from refugee backgrounds. Little is known, however, about whether there are specific patterns relating to the types of emotion regulation strategies commonly employed by refugees, nor how this relates to psychopathology. Moreover, wider literature on emotion regulation has primarily focused on examining specific emotion regulation strategies in isolation, rather than patterns of emotion regulation across multiple strategies.

This study aimed to assess post-traumatic stress symptoms and vicarious traumatization (VT) versus post-traumatic growth (PTG) among Israeli practitioners who shared war-related reality with their clients during the Second Lebanon–Israel war (2006). In addition, the contribution of potency (one’s personal resource) and the role of peri-traumatic dissociation (the emotional detachment activated during or immediately after a traumatic event) were examined.

Dit jaar staat in het teken van 75 jaar vrijheid. Het is bijna 75 geleden dat de Tweede Wereldoorlog is beëindigd. Maar wil dat ook zeggen dat de oorlog werkelijk is afgelopen? Manon Kleijweg werkt als ouderenpsychiater en heeft in haar praktijk met mensen te maken die nog elke dag met een trauma van de oorlog leven. Dit heeft een impact op hun persoonlijkheid, hun dierbaren en hun leven.

“Tot op de dag van vandaag houd ik me bezig met de behandeling van psychisch leed van een oorlog die 75 jaar geleden ophield.”

Background: The literature on loss and traumatic grief after disasters provides findings on the impact of losing a partner, child or close friend on partners, parents and friends. However, little attention has been given to the broader everyday social environment of deceased persons. The present study constitutes a qualitative exploration of the impact on colleagues and neighbors following the MH17 airplane disaster in the Ukraine, July 2014.

Oorlogslevens is het startpunt voor uw zoektocht naar personen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, op basis van beschikbare bronnen. Oorlogslevens.nl is permanent in ontwikkeling.

Het gaat om oorlogsbetrokkenen - nu alleen nog slachtoffers - die tijdens of na de oorlog zijn overleden. Denk daarbij aan gevangenen in (concentratie)kampen en gevangenissen, slachtoffers van bombardementen, tewerkgestelden, verzetsstrijders, militairen, Joodse, Sinti- en Roma-slachtoffers.

A firefighter/EMS individual I recently saw reported that he had been on the job since he was 18 years old. He recognized that over time and relatively immediately that his cumulative stress impaired his relationships and ability to relate to others. He was having a challenging time maintaining a long-term intimate relationship because he would waver between being irritable and aggressive and becoming cut off and emotionally distant. He described being one of the first on the scene of two car accidents which I was familiar with where children were sadly killed.

Celia Umenza en Norka Ortiz vechten voor de rechten van de Nasa en de Wayuu, de inheemse volken in Colombia waartoe ze behoren. ‘Voor ons hoort de strijd er altijd bij.’

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disabling psychiatric disorder that develops in approximately 10% of people exposed to trauma. As traumatic events are the point of reference for PTSD symptom onset, the first hours to weeks posttrauma provide opportunities for preventive interventions. In this article, we discuss current evidence on pharmacological preventive interventions for PTSD in adults. We conclude that there are no pharmacological preventive interventions that are ready for routine clinical practice.

We explore the long-term political consequences of the Third Reich and show that current political intolerance, xenophobia, and voting for radical right-wing parties are associated with proximity to former Nazi concentration camps in Germany. This relationship is not explained by contemporary attitudes, the location of the camps, geographic sorting, the economic impact of the camps, or their current use. We argue that cognitive dissonance led those more directly exposed to Nazi institutions to conform with the belief system of the regime.