Jonge vluchtelingen en nieuwkomers bouwen in een nieuw land aan een nieuw thuis. Ze dragen echter vaak een rugzak mee vol met moeilijke ervaringen en gemis, maar ook met hoop, dromen en verwachtingen. Een longitudinaal onderzoek geeft inzicht in het welzijn van jonge, alleenstaande vluchtelingen en hoe de samenleving ze een warm welkom kan bieden.

Misbruik, verwaarlozing, armoede en geweld hebben onmiskenbare en beschadigende effecten op kinderen. Door veerkracht, die ontstaat door het inzetten van persoonlijke en externe hulpbronnen, kunnen zij zich niettemin tot gezonde volwassenen ontwikkelen. ‘Veerkracht is dynamisch: het kan toenemen en afnemen. Aan de groei ervan kan iedereen bijdragen,’ zegt klinisch psycholoog en auteur Leony Coppens.

When police personnel suffering from work-related psychological injuries seek support and recognition from their organization, a complex dynamic can unfold. This may even be experienced as morally injurious, thus adding to the initial psychological injury. This article delves into this issue in the context of Dutch police personnel, analyzing the narratives of 13 (former) police officers through the theoretical framework of Moral Injury, (mis)recognition, and bureaucracy.

Purpose of Review

Moral injury has garnered increased empirical and societal interest in the past fifteen years. We sought to conduct a multidisciplinary examination of several developmental, contextual, and relational models of moral injury to better inform professional research and practice.

Findings

De handreiking is met name bedoeld voor zorgprofessionals en zorgorganisaties die met jonge vluchtelingen werken en is een aanvulling op de leidraad ‘Suïcidepreventie bij jongeren: een netwerkbrede werkwijze’, die in 2023 is opgeleverd. 

In de handreiking lees je meer over:

De situatie in Israël en Palestina heeft ook onmiskenbare invloed op de verhoudingen in de Nederlandse samenleving. Professionals in het sociaal domein merken die gevolgen direct in hun uitvoeringspraktijk. Hoe kun je hier mee omgaan? Hoe kun je gespannen situaties ontzenuwen en zelfs verbinding maken? Dit dossier helpt je op weg.

Childhood maltreatment (CM) is thought to be associated with altered responses to social stimuli and interpersonal signals. However, limited evidence exists that CM is linked to larger comfortable interpersonal distance (CID) – the physical distance humans prefer towards others during social interactions. However, no previous study has investigated this association in a comprehensive sample, yielding sufficient statistical power. Moreover, preliminary findings are limited to the European region.

Background and Hypothesis

Young people (YP) with psychotic experiences (PE) have an increased risk of developing a psychiatric disorder. Therefore, knowledge on continuity of care from child and adolescent (CAMHS) to adult mental health services (AMHS) in relation to PE is important. Here, we investigated whether the self-reported trajectories of persistent PE were associated with likelihood of transition to AMHS and mental health outcomes.

Study Design

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder with traumatic memories at its core. Post-treatment sleep may offer a unique time window to increase therapeutic efficacy through consolidation of therapeutically modified traumatic memories. Targeted memory reactivation (TMR) enhances memory consolidation by presenting reminder cues (e.g., sounds associated with a memory) during sleep. Here, we applied TMR in PTSD patients to strengthen therapeutic memories during sleep after one treatment session with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR).

Higher lifetime trauma exposure and increased peritraumatic dissociation (PD) are well-known predictors of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms following new trauma (prospective PTSD symptoms). The interplay between those factors, however, is not well established. In this study, we aimed to assess whether PD mediates the influence of lifetime trauma exposure on prospective PTSD symptoms. A total of 387 adults visiting five emergency departments who had experienced a traumatic event within 72 hours completed baseline assessments on lifetime trauma exposure count and PD.