De psychotherapeut […] kwam voor het dilemma te staan hoe hij, met westerse, op het individu gebaseerde areligieuze methodieken zijn allochtone cliënt, die lijdt aan de gevolgen van ingrijpende levensgebeurtenissen, moet bijstaan.

BACKGROUND: It is important to understand which factors increase the risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adolescents. Previous studies have shown that the most important risk factors for PTSD include the type, severity, and duration of exposure to the traumatic events.METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was used to investigate the psychological symptoms associated with the aftermath of a snowstorm disaster in the Hunan province of China in January 2008. Students living in Hunan were surveyed at a three-month follow-up after the disaster.

IMPORTANCE: Beginning in 2005, the incidence of suicide deaths in the US military began to sharply increase. Unique stressors, such as combat deployments, have been assumed to underlie the increasing incidence. Previous military suicide studies, however, have relied on case series and cross-sectional investigations and have not linked data during service with postservice periods.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating psychiatric disorder. An important diagnostic feature of PTSD is anhedonia, which may result from deficits in reward functioning. This has however never been studied systematically in PTSD. To determine if PTSD is associated with reward impairments, we conducted a systematic review of studies in which reward functioning was compared between PTSD patients and healthy control participants, or investigated in relation to PTSD symptom severity.

Les pathologies post-traumatiques occasionnées par les guerres contemporaines (fratricides, interethniques) révèlent des attaques des liens internes et externes et entament le pacte narcissique. Les sujets ont été expulsés de l'humaine condition. Dans de telles conditions, ce sont alors la position soignante et la fonction clinique qu'il convient de venir interroger. Deux exemples cliniques tirés de séances de psychothérapie de personnes demandeurs d'asile illustreront ce texte.

We conducted a prospective study that tracked the frequency of potentially traumatic events (PTEs) and nontraumatic events among college students over a 4-year period using a weekly web-based survey. At the study's completion, participants attempted to recall the number of events they had endorsed on the web surveys. Although participants underrecalled the frequency of all types of life events, recollection was more accurate for PTEs than for non-PTEs. Recalled-frequency of PTEs was associated positively with distress at recall and inversely with trait self-enhancement.

Documentaire over het laatste transport uit concentratiekamp Vught naar concentratiekamp Sachsenhausen in 1944. Een van de overlevenden, oudverzetsman en natuurfilmer Jan van den Ende, maakt de treinreis opnieuw samen met de 16-jarige Joodse scholiere Danni Reches. De film start en eindigt op het station Vught. Daartussen wordt een indrukwekkend beeld gegeven van het leven in kamp Vught, de deportatie naar Sachsenhausen, het regime in dit concentratiekamp en hoe deze ervaringen het leven van de slachtoffers verregaand hebben beïnvloed.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that is associated with structural and functional alterations in several brain areas, including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). Here, we examine resting state functional connectivity of ACC subdivisions in PTSD, using a seed-based approach. Resting state magnetic resonance images were obtained from male veterans with (n = 31) and without (n = 25) PTSD, and healthy male civilian controls (n = 25).

While there is substantial interest in trauma-specific psychodynamic individual therapy, this is not true for group therapies. Some general considerations will be put forward regarding the specificity of group psychotherapy with patients suffering from complex posttraumatic disorders. Especially, a good balance of resilience vs. problem orientation is recommended.

Why do responses to terrorist attacks often perpetuate cycles of deadly violence? Using the violence in Northern Ireland and Rwanda as case studies throughout, Part 1, The Context of Terrorism, looks at the psychological and social influences behind extremism, terrorism and conflict. Part 2, Reponses to a Terrorist Attack, examines the responses that can feed a cycle of violence and assesses a range of approaches for their success in ending violence.