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Developmental coordination disorder: a new diagnostic category in DSM-III-R

ISSUE 1991/9

H.M.P. van Leeuwen, H.M. Slot

Developmental coordination disorder is a new diagnostic category listed on Axis II in DSM-III-R. Children, who were hospitalized for psychiatric treatment, were administered the Dutch version of the `Hamm-Marburger Körperkoordinationstest für Kind...

The effect of lithium addition to cyclic antidepressants

E. Hoencamp, M.S. Verjaal, W.A. Nolen, P.M.J. Haffmans

Of the patients, treated adequately with cyclic antidepressants, about a third do not react favourably. One of the possibilities for further treatment of these `treatment resistant' patients is to add lithium to the cyclic antidepressant. In this ...

Psychiatry in the care for the mentally handicapped

G.J. Zwanikken, A.E.S. Sijben

The care for mentally handicapped people broke away from psychiatry during the last 25 years and developed an identity of her own. After years of separation the demand for psychiatric help and bridging the gap between psychiatry and the care for t...

Usefulness of the Intramural Psychiatric Patients Observation scale (IPPO) in a psychiatric ward of a general hospital

L. van Mulders, M. Vanschoenwinkel, E. Meers, A.M. Moens, L. Kaufman, M.P. Derde

The IPPO, a Dutch scale for nurses to rate the behaviour of psychiatric inpatients, was studied as to its reliability and sensitivity. 98 hospitalized psychiatric patients have been assessed at admission and discharge. Statistical analyses indicat...

The significance of the interhuman factor in group psychotherapy: a dialogue between psychoanalytic and existentialistic views

M.C. van der Laan

Group psychotherapy is characterized by the fact that the meeting between the group members constitutes an essential part of the therapeutic process. The way in which this meeting is described in the literature on group psychotherapy is explored. ...

The psycho-social sequelae of bankruptcy

M. Ausems, C. v.d. Burgt, F. Gerards

Up till now no research has been undertaken into the psycho-social changes in a private person's living conditions, following that same person's bankruptcy. To chart out, albeit in a limited way, severity and extent of these psycho-social conseque...

Mao inhibitors as antidepressants

T.K. Birkenhäger, J.A. Bruijn, W.A. Nolen, M. Vegt

Over the last five years the use of MAO inhibitors in the treatment of depression has been rising in the Netherlands. For this reason, the authors reviewed the literature concerning some aspects of the use of MAO inhibitors as antidepressants.

Feasibility of a day-treatment program for the severely mentally ill in relation to psychopath

F.J. Nienhuis, R. Giel, H. Kluiter, M. Rüphan, D. Wiersma

Feasibility of day-treatment for patients accepted for admission to a psychiatric hospital was tested by means of a randomised experiment. Psychopathology was assessed at the time of admission, covering diagnosis, symptoms and psychological impair...

Feasibility of a day-treatment program for the severely mentally ill in relation to social role dysfunction

M. Rüphan, R. Giel, H. Kluiter, F.J. Nienhuis, D. Wiersma

Feasibility of day-treatment for patients accepted for admission to a psychiatric hospital was tested by means of a randomised experiment. In search of patient characteristics indicating suitability for day treatment, specific and general social r...

A Dutch patient with Latah

J.A. Jenner

A detailed description is given of the only case of a Dutch Latah which has been mentioned so far. The constituents that possibly made her treatment successful are discussed. Emphasis is given on behaviour and family therapy.

Migrant Care _ a Janus-policy?

J.T.V.M. de Jong

Based on an analysis of the existing literature on migrant care in the Netherlands, the author argues that there exists a fundamental lack of scientific knowledge about e.g. the epidemiology and the psychopathology of mental disorders among migran...

Meige's syndrome as a complication of neuroleptic treatment

J. Arends, R.J.P. Rijnders, C.A.L. Hoogduin

Movement disorders are more common in general psychiatric practice as is generally thought.

The authors report the appearance of Meige's syndrome in three patients, who are treated with neuroleptics. They review the literature of primary and s...

Regional differences and tendencies in involuntary hospitalisation in the Netherlands, 1984-1988

C.E. Klein Ikkink, A.I. Wierdsma, A.C. de Graaf

This paper represents a replication-study on the subject of involuntary hospitalisation in three large cities and a rural area of the Netherlands, over the years 1984-1988. A new tendency appears to be developing: the number of involuntary hospita...

Self-esteem and self-perception: a study of 8-12 year old children at a child psychiatric clinic

M.A.E. Straathof, Ph.D.A. Treffers, B. Siebelink, A.W. Goedhart

This article starts with a brief review of the development of children's self-esteem. Next the results are presented of a study investigating the clinical utility of Susan Harter's `Self Perception Profile for Children' (SPPC), especially as an in...

Deviant social behaviour of psychiatric patients

A. de Jong

Within the field of psychiatry the attention for deviant social behaviour has always been secondary to the primacy of symptomatology and diagnosis. In the period just after the second world war a gradual change has taken place. The shift in attent...

Psychiatry and drug abuse clinics

E.A. Noorlander

From the moment drug abuse clinics became operational in the Netherlands these clinics have progressively been drifting away from the main body of Mental Health Organisations. As a result of this development workers in each type of organisation ar...

Individual differences, diagnostics in perspective

K. Jonker, W.M. Snellen

It is argued, with the help of three casuistic illustrations, that, if one wants to be able to make statements about prognosis and treatment approach, it is impossible to confine oneself only to systems which emanate from one level of assessment o...

Psychopathology (SCL-90) in symptomatic HIV-infection and AIDS-patients

M. van Beuzekom, F. van den Boom, H. Kroon, J.G. Storosum, H.N. Sno, H. van Dis

Results are reported of a group of 56 symptomatic seropositives and 61 AIDS-patients on the dimensions of the SCL-90. The scores are compared with three normgroups: a normal healthy population, a group cardiac ambulant patients and a group ambulan...

The etiology of puerperal psychosis

M. de Keizer, T. Kuipers

The dramatic biological changes that occur after childbirth and symptoms like confusion have stimulated much theorizing about a central role for organic factors in the etiology of puerperal psychosis. In this article possible etiologic factors and...

Informed consent in psychiatry

J.L.M. van der Beek

The medical treatment agreement is soon going to be discussed in the Second Chamber of the Dutch government. One of the most important subjects is the informed consent. Applied to the psychiatric field, heaps of problems arise.

There is a batt...

Intensive treatment of post-traumatic stressdisorder; experiences with policemen

B.P.R. Gersons

Police officers, in the course of their work, regularly fall victim to traumatic events, leading in some cases to the development of a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Treatment programmes are based on a number of different views about the p...

Experiences of relatives of acutely admitted psychiatric patients. A pilot study

A.A.M. Jongerius, A.R. van Gool, R.B. Laport

An exploration was made of feelings and experiences of the relatives of acutely admitted psychiatric patients. At the time of admission, feelings of helplesness and exhaustion were prominent. Though after admission the family members felt often re...

D. Wiersma, F.G. Brook, R. Giel, H. Kluiter, F.J. Nienhuis, M. Rüphan, S. Sytema

Effects of substitution on the regional patterns of referral and admission in mental health care

ISSUE 1991/2

20 maart 2004

Possible effects of the introduction of a new, experimental day-treatment programme combined with extramural and community care, as an alternative to standard inpatient treatment are studied over a period of three years (1986-1988) on the level of...