We investigated whether inpatients suffering from comorbid complicated grief disorder benefited from an additional manualized nine-session group intervention. For this purpose, 50 patients participating in the additional complicated grief intervention were compared with 22 control patients who received treatment as usual. After grief intervention, we found large effect sizes with regard to improvement in complicated grief symptoms.

De geschiedenis van dove joodse mensen in de Holocaust.

Achtergrond De behandeling van niet-westerse patiënten verloopt vaak moeizaam. De reden is onduidelijk. doel Suggesties voor de benadering van de moeilijkheden in de (transculturele) psychiatrische praktijk. Methode Presentatie van een theoretisch model, afgeleid uit praktijkvoorbeelden, dat inzicht geeft in de essentie van (transculturele) psychiatrie. Het model is gebaseerd op twee betekenissen van het begrip 'cultuur' en op een uitwerking van de universaliteits- en relativiteitsdichotomie.

For a long time there was hardly any interest in the war-experiences of young children. What should they know about the war, was an often heard remark, and indeed, Jewish children, born in the years just before or during the war didn't have clear recollections about their stay in hiding places or their often horrifying experiences in the concentration camps. However, today their stories are recognized as valuable, and what's more, we seem to be aware of the fact that they provide us with the opportunity to connect us with the war. But what exactly do they remember after all those years?

Maasoord, de psychiatrische inrichting van Rotterdam, later Delta Psychiatrisch Centrum is, voor zover bekend, de enige psychiatrische inrichting in Nederland waar tijdens de bezetting de Joodse patiënten niet zijn weggevoerd. Terwijl in geen instelling zoveel medewerkers lid waren van de NSB en Duitsers bijna iedere dag op het terrein waren.

Genezing dwangstoornis geen lineair proces Mensen met een obsessief compulsieve stoornis hebben last van dwanggedachten (obsessies) en dwanghandelingen (compulsies). Disfunctionele gedachten leiden bij deze mensen tot handelingen die niet in verhouding staan tot waar ze bang of angstig voor zijn. De stoornis kan met cognitieve psychotherapie behandeld worden. Wel blijft maar liefst 50% van de behandelde mensen daarna nog symptomen van de ziekte vertonen. Onderzoekster Annemiek Polman ging daarom na wat de aard is van het proces van gedragsverandering tijdens de behandeling.

AbstractThe aim of this dissertation was to provide a systematic exploration of the nature and distribution of dysfunctional affect regulation, its associated phenomena, and retrospectively reported potentially traumatizing events in 475 patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), somatoform disorder (SoD), comorbid BPD+SoD, and a psychiatric comparison group (PC) to provide a baseline against which to compare the hypothesized elevations in dysfunctional self and affect regulation.

This study contradicts the generally accepted idea that psychosocial stressinfluences stress responsive systems.Summary213We conclude that dysfunction of stress responsive systems is not a necessaryfactor for somatization in general. However, lowered cardiac vagal activity,hypocortisolism, and possibly low-grade immune activation, may be relevant inthe etiology in subgroups of patients with FSD. Such subgroups need to be betteridentified in order to target and improve treatment strategies based onnormalization of function of the stress responsive systems. (from the summary)

Deze dissertatie heeft aard en omvang van psychiatrische stoornissen, kwaliteit van leven, functiebeperkingen en lichamelijke gezondheid onderzocht onder één van de grootste groepen asielzoekers in Nederland.

Objective: Statistical inferences based on routine outcome monitoring data are susceptible to biases. Because this process may be influenced by differences in attrition and treatment duration, we wished to gain an insight into the relationship between treatment duration and clinical outcome. Method: We enrolled 569 assertive community treatment (ACT) team patients.