Facts on psychotraumatology

Olff, Miranda

doi:10.1080/20008198.2019.1578524

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“…Fourthly, further examination of e-health interventions (e.g. Bourla, Mouchabac, El Hage, & Ferreri, 2018 ; Olff, 2015 , 2019 ) and culturally sensitive approaches to the assessment and treatment of traumatically bereaved individuals (Schnyder et al, 2016 ; Smid, Groen, de la Rie, Kooper, & Boelen, 2018 ) are paramount as well. The European Journal of Psychotraumatology looks forward to receiving more papers on mental health consequences of traumatic loss, to better meet the needs and further improve the mental health care for people dealing with mental health consequences of traumatic loss.…”

Section: Directions For Future Research: a Hypothetical Staging Profmentioning

confidence: 99%

Traumatic loss: Mental health consequences and implications for treatment and prevention

Boelen

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Smid

2019

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Traumatic loss involves the loss of loved ones in the context of potentially traumatizing circumstances and is a commonly reported traumatic event. It may give rise to disturbed grief, called prolonged grief disorder (PGD) in ICD-11 and persistent complex bereavement disorder (PCBD) in DSM-5, combined with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. The recent inclusion of grief disorders in both DSM-5 and ICD-11 have spurred research on griefrelated psychopathology. This special issue on traumatic loss includes 10 articles and two letters. Topics addressed include diagnostic criteria for PGD, children's perspectives on life after parental intimate partner homicide, and the impact of visiting the site of deaths caused by terror. Early indicators of problematic grief trajectories are addressed, as well as moderators and mediators of disordered grief, including coping strategies, rumination, and meaning-making. Further, a meta-analysis synthesizing research findings on correlates of disturbed grief following traumatic loss is presented. Finally, specialized treatments as Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for grief are addressed, and predictors of treatment response for CBT for PGD including levels of self-blame and avoidance are scrutinized. As such, the articles included in this special issue increase our understanding of the needs of people confronted with traumatic loss and bring promising findings with regard to diagnosis, prevention, and specialized treatment in children, young people and adults. This article also introduces a hypothetical staging, profiling, and stepped care model which may offer a template to integrate existing and emerging research findings on possible courses and correlates of grief, in order to inform treatment decisions.

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Section: Directions For Future Research: a Hypothetical Staging Profmentioning

confidence: 99%

Traumatic loss: Mental health consequences and implications for treatment and prevention

Boelen

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2019

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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“…Another worrisome theme of the past year is the discussion on our changing climate, giving rise to a significant increase in natural disasters, uninhabitable environments, increased inequity, poverty, etc. This theme has already been addressed in previous editorials (Olff, 2017 , 2019 ) but I am really pleased that we now have call for papers on this specific theme (see details below).…”

Section: Sexual Violence From a Public Health Lensmentioning

confidence: 80%

“…Registered Reports – It is interesting to see that registered reports, that we introduced as a new submission format in 2018 (Olff, 2019 ; Spiller & Olff, 2018 ), are now coming through. Several study protocols that were submitted for peer review before starting the study (Stage 1) have now passed peer review, and have been provisionally accepted for publication.…”

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Sexual assault as a public health problem and other developments in psychotraumatology

Olff

2022

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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A recent scandal in the Netherlands painfully underscored that sexual harassment and abuse are unfortunately still happening around the world, even after decades of advocacy on this issue and five years of #MeToo. To make progress in prevention and treatment we argue that we should address sexual violence from a public health perspective. Fruthermore, looking back on the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic was the dominant and potentially traumatic stressor affecting large populations around the world. Another big topic was that of the impact of climate change, we are only beginning to realize its impact on stress across the globe. The European Journal of Psychotraumatology (EJPT), with its increasing global readership and scientific and social impact, is focusing on the traumatic stress aspects of these and many other events. Relatedly, neurobiological aspects are an important and growing focus of the journal in that they help us better understand the mechanisms behind the development of trauma-related disorders and their treatment. In this editorial, we present recent trends, new Open Science developments, journal metrics, the plans and themes for next year and the ESTSS EJPT award winners for best paper of 2021. Highlights Next years’ research focus should be on sexual violence from a public health lens, climate change, and neurobiologal aspects of trauma-related disorders. The European Journal of Psychotraumatology (EJPT) calls or papers on these issues.

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“…The European Journal of Psychotraumatology started as one of the first 'specialist' full Open Access journals in its field. This was quite an adventure 10 years ago when the Journal was launched (see also Olff, 2010Olff, , 2012Olff, , 2013Olff, , 2014Olff, , 2015Olff, , 2016Olff, , 2017Olff, , 2018Olff, , 2019Olff & Bindslev, 2011) and Open Access was still novel for many. Although no other gold Open Access journal in the area of traumatic stress exists, more and more journals provide Open Access options; these are so-called 'hybrid' journalssubscription journals that offer the possibility to make an article freely available.…”

Section: Open Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More transparency reduces Questionable Research Practices (QRPs, Wessel & Niemeyer, 2019 ), and moves us in the direction of Responsible Research Practices . QRPs, including for instance low statistical power, selective reporting of results, and publication bias have already led to the introduction of Registered Reports (Olff, 2019 ; Spiller & Olff, 2018 , see also Centre for Open Science ) whereby the background, hypothesis, methods and planned analyses are submitted for publication prior to beginning research, before results are known. The results of the research are then published regardless of outcome, if the researcher has followed the protocol laid out in the Registered Report.…”

Section: Developments In Open Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%