Background

Working in prisons can be tough and challenging. Dutch prison staff participated in Moral Case Deliberation sessions: group dialogues in which professionals reflect on complex moral situations from their practice. Prison staff indicated that they face many moral dilemmas on a daily basis.

Intrusive memories (IMs) after traumatic events can be distressing and disrupt mental health and functioning. We evaluated the impact of a brief remotely-delivered digital imagery-competing task intervention on the number of IMs for intensive care unit (ICU) staff who faced repeated trauma exposure during the COVID-19 pandemic using a two-arm, parallel-group, single-blind randomised controlled trial, with the comparator arm receiving delayed access to active treatment (crossover).

Background
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed healthcare significantly and telepsychiatry is now the primary means of treatment in some countries.

Aims

To compare the efficacy of telepsychiatry and face-to-face treatment.

Method

Ouderen hebben net zo vaak psychische problemen als jongere mensen, maar die blijven nog vaak buiten beeld. Terwijl de juiste behandeling en diagnose bevrijdend kunnen zijn.

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic raised concerns regarding population-wide impacts on mental health. Existing work on the psychological impacts of disaster has identified the potential for multiple response trajectories, with resilience as likely as the development of chronic psychopathology. Early reviews of mental health during the pandemic suggested elevated prevalence rates of multiple forms of psychopathology, but were limited by largely cross-sectional approaches.

Je hoeft je wekker niet meer te zetten – je bent met pensioen! De dagen strekken zich voor je uit en je hoeft alleen maar te doen waar je zin in hebt. Zalig, toch? Maar die vrijheid betekent niet voor alle pensionado’s blijheid. Ouderen met autisme bijvoorbeeld, kunnen juist in de knel raken door zo’n kaderloos bestaan.

Experiences of trauma in childhood and adulthood are highly prevalent among service users accessing acute, crisis, emergency, and residential mental health services. These settings, and restraint and seclusion practices used, can be extremely traumatic, leading to a growing awareness for the need for trauma informed care (TIC). The aim of TIC is to acknowledge the prevalence and impact of trauma and create a safe environment to prevent re-traumatisation.

Een onderzoek naar de opzet en eerste ervaringen met het nieuwe inburgeringsbeleid in Rotterdam.

Met de invoering van de nieuwe Wet inburgering op 1 januari 2022 hebben gemeenten een grotere verantwoordelijkheid gekregen voor de begeleiding en ondersteuning van statushouders en gezinsmigranten en de keuze van het inburgeringsaanbod.

Background. Clinicians in Child and Adolescent Mental Healthcare Services (CAMHS) face the challenge to determine who is at risk of persistence of depressive problems into adulthood and requires continued treatment after reaching the CAMHS upper age limit of care-provision. We assessed whether risk factors for persistence were related to CAMHS clinicians' transition recommendations.