Five years of European Journal of Psychotraumatology

2017

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Section: Trauma and The Need For Collaborationsupporting

confidence: 75%

Psychotraumatology in Greece

Kolaitis

2017

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“…Yet, the advancement of knowledge on epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of psychopathology related to traumatic loss remains a key priority in this field. Gender aspects associated with traumatic loss also need further study, and would be in line with the journal's gender policy (see Olff, 2016). More knowledge is specifically needed about vulnerable groups, including children, the elderly, persons professionally exposed to the risk of losing important others, such as first responders and members of the armed forces, and refugees, fleeing war or under-resourced circumstances.…”

Section: Directions For Future Research: a Hypothetical Staging Profmentioning

confidence: 97%

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

Boelen

Smid

2019

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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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“…see the gender policy of the European Association of Science Editors). In 2016, the European Journal of Psychotraumatology was the first to implement a gender policy (Olff, 2016), i.e. authors are asked to: report the sex of research subjects, justify single-sex studies, discriminate between sex and gender (mostly for human research), analyse how sex or gender impact the results, and discuss sex and gender issues when relevant.…”

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confidence: 99%

Sex and gender differences in post-traumatic stress disorder: an update

2017

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