Special issue

Stressmanagement

ISSUE 1985/10

30 november 2008

R. Rombouts

After myocardial infarction or openheart surgery the patient and partner often have to cope with several sources of stress. Analysis of these sources of stress led to the development of a stressmanagement training for both patients and their partn...

Inpatient treatment of severe anorexia nervosa with behaviour modification techniques

ISSUE 1985/10

30 november 2008

A.J.M. Schmidt

In a number of cases anorexia nervosa has to be treated on an inpatient base. In this setting behaviour modification techniques are useful and often implicit. Described are:

operant conditioning during weight restoration,
exposure- or system...

The effectiveness of lithium prophylaxis in bipolar, unipolar and schizo-affective disorders

T.K. Bouman, G.J. Niemantsverdriet-Van Kampen, J. Ormel, C.J. Slooff

In the literature the effectiveness of lithium prophylaxis in bipolar affective disorders is generally supported. In this paper we have examined whether besides the bipolar disorders the unipolar and schizo-affective disorders also benefit from li...

ECT in Dutch practice

B.A. Blansjaar, W.A. Nolen

In the Netherlands ECT is hardly used. Compared to countries such as USA, UK and Denmark, ECT is used 100 to 200 times less frequently per inhabitant. During the years 1981-1984 the Psychiatric Centre Bloemendaal served as a kind of regional centr...

The effectiveness of psychiatric partial hospitalization: an overview

B.P.R. Gersons, A.H. Schene

Especially during the last decade, there has been a steady development of psychiatric day treatment in the Netherlands. The extent, function and position of this mode of treatment in the framework of the Mental health system, have until now not be...

The Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale

J.G. Goekoop, E.G.T.M. Hartong

A dutch translation of the MADRS is presented. An account is given of the exclusion of self-ratingscales from this study. The translated version of the MADRS was found to have acceptable face validity and good reliability. The concurrent validity ...

Therapeutic aspects of puerperal psychosis

M. Hebbrecht, R.A. Pierloot

This article intends to summarize the different psychopharmacological methods and the psychotherapeutic strategies — concerning the issue of puerperal psychosis. The advantages and the risks of the joint admission of psychotic mothers with their b...

Parentgroups in a residential treatment-program for psychotic patients

J.A. Hauer, C. Janzing, F.A. van Zantvoort

The authors describe a bi-focal treatment-program for psychotic patients and their parents. A work-hypothesis about the origin of psychoses is developed from theories of L. Ciompi. This hypothesis forms the point of departure of a specific milieu ...

Social support and depressive complaints

B. Garssen, P.J.G. Schreurs, T.I. Oei, F.M. Zwart

The lack of supportive social relations is significantly related to the occurrence of depressive complaints. This has been demonstrated in population studies as well as in clinical studies. This relation may reflect a causative role of social supp...

An investigation of possible correlations of subcortical lesions and changes in personality and coping styles in multiple sclerosis patients

J.J. van Egmond, A. Goedhart, H.K. van Walbeek

Thirty multiple sclerosis patients were divided in pairs and examined for presence of subcortical lesions bij means of neuropsychological testing. Eight pairs appeared to be complementary, as far as presence or absence of deficits identified bij n...

The follow-up project psychotherapeutic communities (4): changes in coping by residential psychotherapy

C. Bijleveld, A. Hesselink, R.A. Visser, A. Vogelaar

This article has for its object: a description of the results of residential psychotherapy, measured by the change in coping. The data come from a large scale follow-up project ; the instrument used in this project is a questionnaire, which, among...

On community mental health in the Netherlands

M. Romme

The Dutch government has set the policy goal of integrating a broad range of ambulatory and in-patient mental health services. The current Dutch system is comprised of autonomously functioning in-patient and out-patient services. In Rotterdam both...

Gender differentiation: an overview of recent research

This article contains an overview of recent research in Europe and the United States in the field of gender differentiation. Special attention is given to recent and current research in the Netherlands and how it relates to work in other countries...

Eye tracking dysfunction and psychoticism

R.J. van den Bosch, J.M.F.A. Mol, N. Rozendaal

The relationship between eye tracking dysfunction and various measures of psychoticism was studied in a random sample of psychotic as well as nonpsychotic psychiatric patients. Psychotic and nonpsychotic patients, whether defined according to DSM-...

Changing patterns in the legal position of psychiatric patients after admission, a cohortstudy

O.H. Brook

In the period of 1970-1972 the number of admissions in general mental hospitals increased considerably, especially those on voluntary base. From 1976 up to 1982 the ratio of voluntary to involuntary admissions remained about 85 percent to 15 perce...

Object constancy: the theory of normal development

W. Matthys

To work out a residential treatment programme for children with persistent behaviour disorders, the literature on object constancy is reviewed. This term is used in different ways by the different authors. After summarizing the contributions of Ha...

Consultation psychiatry: expectations of physicians and nurses

M.E.J.M. Caubo, M.W. Hengeveld, E.M. van Mil, M.T. de Witte

In the literature there is often made a plan for a staff-oriented approach in consultation psychiatry. The expectations of the non-psychiatric physicians and nurses about the psychiatric consultations are only rarely investigated. Therefore, a que...

Clinical and social characteristics differentiating groups of suicidal and nonsuicidal persons: a meta-analysis

M. van Egmond, R.F.W. Diekstra

Research examining differences between groups of suicidal and non-suicidal persons is critically reviewed. A simple method of meta-analysis on 81 published comparative studies revealed social characteristics to be more powerful than clinical items...

Growth-hormone stimulation tests in psychiatry: a review

W. Verbruggen

In the past 10 years there has been an increasing interest in neuro-endocrinology as a way of assessing central nervous system processes, that might play a role in the development of psychiatric disorders. Partly as a diagnostic tool and partly fo...

Multiple Personality, a review of literature

J. Megens

In the last decade the number of publications about multiple personality in the psychiatric literature has dramatically increased. This seems to be connected with the revival of interest in hypnosis. Most authors state that multiple personality is...

Families with oppressive ties: the family with (pathological) symbiotic relationships

F. Booij-van Reek, F. Verheij

This article describes and analyzes the family with (pathological) symbiotic relations. The characteristics of the family are formulated both from the psychodynamic and the systems-theoretical framework. It is postulated that within these families...

Aspects of the reliability of the PSE in four patient categories

L.H. Boerma, T.J. Duine, P.P.G. Hodiamont, P.G.M. Peer

Apart from being used as diagnostic instrument in clinical settings the Present State Examination is also employed in open populations to assess the prevalence of psychiatric symptoms. In a pilot study we examined two aspects of the reliability of...

The Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS)

J. Bleeker, P. Dingemans, J.H. Dijkhuis, H. van Engeland

This article outlines the origins of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) and follows with a description of its structure, the posing of questions (e.g.) with the aid of a flow chart), coding responses and editing interview data for machine pro...

Legal status and forensic psychiatric treatment: on power and impotence

ISSUE 1985/4