Background. Violent criminal offenders with personality disorders (PD’s) can cause immense harm, but are often deemed untreatable. This study aimed to conduct a randomized clinical trial to test the effectiveness of long-term psychotherapy for rehabilitating offenders with PDs. Methods. We compared schema …

Background Dropout in later years of the nursing degree programme involves lost investment and is a particular problem for both students and educators. Reasons for late dropout seem to be related to the work and learning environment of the clinical placement. Objectives The aim of this study was to …

Introduction: Various subjects in child and youth social care, such as sexuality and sexual violence, are quite sensitive, and professionals may experience a certain reluctance to discuss these subjects with their clients (e.g., the young people they work with, as well as their families) and colleagues. …

Emancipation of law, violence and information dehumanizes us and therefore makes us a little more dangerous. The more "technical" the communication is, the lower the threshold for colliding with each other. Technology (or methodology) makes it possible to sharpen the contours of the conflict and thus …

Social media is becoming more and more important and thus, online and offline bullying, as well as violence between children and teenagers, can be observed as an effect of the growing influence of the online communities.

There is a dualism in current policy discourses on public health between neoliberal conceptions of health, and health as a product of social conditions. These conceptions also co-exist in the narratives of citizens. In this qualitative study carried out in the Netherlands, we analysed how people living …

Background Previous studies identified demographic, reproduction-related and psychosocial correlates of suboptimal mother-to-infant bonding. Their joint informative value was still unknown. This study aimed to develop a multivariable model to screen early in pregnancy for suboptimal postnatal mother-to-infant …

In het begin van 2020 verscheen van de hand van de Groep van deskundigen inzake actie tegen geweld tegen vrouwen en huiselijk geweld (Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, GREVIO) een rapport met aanbevelingen naar aanleiding van een onderzoek naar de wettelijke …

61 procent van de journalisten in Nederland heeft weleens te maken met een bedreiging, dit blijkt uit een onderzoek van voormalig ombudsman Alex Brenninkmeijer en criminoloog Marjolein Odekerken (Odekerken & Brenninkmeijer, 2017). Uit recente cijfers blijkt dat het aantal bedreigingen alleen maar verder …