Wat is er nodig om mensen die een schokkende gebeurtenis hebben meegemaakt, passende en kwalitatief hoogwaardige psychosociale hulp (PSH) te bieden? Hoe kunnen we geboden hulp evalueren en verbeteringen aanbrengen? In het kader van het onderzoeksproject Quality of Psychosocial Care (QPC) is met een groep van PSH-professionals en getroffenen in kaart gebracht wat kenmerken zijn van kwalitatief hoogwaardige psychosociale hulpverlening. Dit is gedaan volgens een specifieke methode: concept mapping. Het resultaat is een beschrijving van kwaliteit in acht kernprincipes.

Kwaliteit is een diffuus begrip. Het Amerikaanse 'Institute of Medicine' heeft internationaal gangbare criteria geformuleerd die het begrip concretiseren. De criteria passen bij het algemeen belang dat crisisorganisaties dienen, of het nu gaat om brandweerinzet, geneeskundige hulpverlening of de toewijzing van middelen voor schadeherstel. De kwaliteit uit zich steeds in de mate van effectiviteit, efficiëntie, veiligheid, burgergerechtigheid, tijdigheid en gelijkheid. Lagere scores per onderdeel wijzen op ruimte voor verbetering.

Immigrant women represent disadvantaged and vulnerable members of the torture survivor population. They tend to be isolated and have negative coping strategies resulting in poor health and wellbeing. The purpose of this pilot study is to develop and evaluate an educational and interactive women&rsquo,s health-based programme using health promotion and empowerment strategies, with the intent of using the knowledge gained to contribute to an ongoing women&rsquo,s health programme.

65 jaar vrede in Nederland was voor War Child aanleiding om twee oorlogskinderen van toen in contact te brengen met oorlogskinderen van nu. Zo gingen Zoni Weisz en Liesbeth List naar Uganda. Zoni heeft zijn ervaringen van deze tocht weergegeven in de vorm van een brief aan zijn kleindochter.

Active participation in combat trauma increased reports of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms over passive witnessing of trauma. Using archival data from 376 U.S. soldiers who took part in the family interview component of the 1988 National Vietnam Veteran Readjustment Study (NVVRS), findings are that even after statistically accounting for witnessing combat trauma, U.S. soldiers who likely killed enemy soldiers in combat reported elevated levels of PTSD symptoms.

Trust in leadership is essential in high-risk work-environments such as the military. Without a willingness to be vulnerable to the leader's directives, soldiers may lose their focus and become less prepared to respond to operational demands. The present research examined how trust in different hierarchical leaders affects soldiers' morale, defined by his or her enthusiasm and dedication to mission goals.

Despite reports documenting adverse effects of stress on police marriages, few empirical studies focus on actual emotional behaviors of officers and spouses. In this preliminary investigation, 17 male police officers and their nonpolice wives completed daily stress diaries for 1 week and then participated in a laboratory-based discussion about their respective days. Conversations were video-recorded and coded for specific emotional behaviors reflecting hostility and affection, which are strong predictors of marital outcomes.

De drie auteurs die in dit artikel geïnterviewd worden zijn: Philo Bregstein, Igor Cornelissen en Lisette Lewin.

This article presents a review of literature focusing on mental health clinicians who have responded to war trauma in their work with children in Israeli schools. The review provides a brief introduction to the country's war history and inception of school psychological and counselling services. Within this framework, results of empirical research, methods of assessment and multisystemic interventions are reviewed. Research results acknowledge the school as a major source of social support and facilitator of recovery.

With the growing interest in posttraumatic growth (PTG), and the ongoing debate on the implications of transgenerational transmission of trauma, this longitudinal study examined PTG among Holocaust survivor offspring following their own exposure to trauma. Using self-report questionnaires, we assessed PTG over time in middle aged (age: M = 53 years) Israeli male combat veterans of the 1973 Yom Kippur War whose parents were (n = 43) and were not (n = 156) second-generation survivors of the Nazi Holocaust at 2 time points: 30 and 35 years following the war (in 2003 and 2008).