Background: Existing studies of mental health interventions in low-resource settings have employed highly structured interventions delivered by non-professionals that typically do not vary by client. Given high comorbidity among mental health problems and implementation challenges with scaling up multiple structured evidence-based treatments (EBTs), a transdiagnostic treatment could provide an additional option for approaching community-based treatment of mental health problems.

Ontelbare monumenten, van heel groot tot piepklein, laten ons stilstaan bij peilloos verdriet en geven de mogelijkheid om slachtoffers van rampen te eren. Ze zijn onmisbaar geworden. Denkend aan de dood kan ik niet slapen, en niet slapend denk ik aan de dood’, dichtte J.C. Bloem treffend. Zijn onsterfelijke woorden keren vaak terug bij herdenkingen. Langzaam maar zeker raakt Nederland letterlijk getekend door monumenten en gedenkplaatsen voor rampen en ander leed. Denk aan Enschede, Apeldoorn, de Bijlmer en Alphen aan den Rijn.

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Objective: User Generated Content - photos and videos submitted to newsrooms by the public - has become a prominent source of information for news organisations. Journalists working with uncensored material can frequently witness disturbing images for prolonged periods. How this might affect their psychological health is not known and it is the focus of this study.

Design: Descriptive, exploratory.

Setting: The newsrooms of three international news organisations.

Objective: Concept mapping is a method for developing a conceptual framework of a
complex topic for use as a guide to evaluation or planning. In concept mapping, thoughts
and ideas are represented in the form of a picture or map, the content of which is determined
by a group of stakeholders. This study aimed to explore the suitability of this
method as a tool to integrate practical knowledge with scientific knowledge in order to
improve theory development as a sound basis for practical decision-making.

Op donderdag 17 juli jl. vertrekt de Boeing 777 met vluchtnummer MH17 van Malaysia Airlines met hoofdzakelijk vakantiegangers, vanuit Amsterdam naar Kuala Lumpur. Ondanks de pro-Russische opstand in Oekraïne heeft Malaysia Airlines een dag eerder nog toestemming gekregen het reguliere vliegschema aan te houden. Dat wil zeggen vliegen via het luchtruim van Oekraïne. Op circa 10 kilometer hoogte boven het dorp Hrabove, Donetsk, wordt het vliegtuig met 298 inzittenden, waarvan 196 Nederlanders, uit de lucht geschoten.

To date, reviews show inconclusive results on the association between social capital and mental health. Evidence that social capital can intentionally be promoted is also scarce. Promotion of social capital may impact post-conflict recovery through both increased social cohesion and better mental health. However, studies on community interventions and social capital have mostly relied on cross-sectional study designs.

Van oudsher zijn psychotherapieën gericht op de verbale representaties (gedachten) van patiënten.

The term posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has become a household name since its first appearance in 1980 in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-lll) purblished by the American Psychiatric Association, In the collective mind, this diagnosis is associated with the legacy of the Vietnam War disaster. Earlier conflicts had given birth to terms, such as “soldier's heart, ” “shell shock,” and “war neurosis.” The latter diagnosis was equivalent to the névrose de guerre and Kriegsneurose of French and German scientific literature.