Background: Structured psychotherapy is recommended as the preferred treatment of personality disorders. A substantial group of patients, however, has no access to these therapies or does not benefit. For those patients who have no (longer) access to psychotherapy a Collaborative Care Program (CCP) …

Across all health care settings, certain patients are perceived as ‘difficult’ by clinicians. This paper’s aim is to understand how certain patients come to be perceived and labelled as ‘difficult’ patients in community mental health care, through mixed-methods research in The Netherlands between June …

In psychiatric care professionals perceive some patients as 'difficult', especially patients with long-term non-psychotic disorders. For these patients few evidence-based treatments exist. An intervention program, Interpersonal Community Psychiatric Treatment (ICPT), was developed by the authors. It …

Er is onderzoek gedaan in de Intensieve Beschermde woonvorm, het IBW naar de mate van aansluiting met de klinische behandeling in de forensische Piet Roordakliniek (PRK). Hiervoor zijn de bewoners van het IBW geïnterviewd en gevraagd naar hun ervaringen in de eerste periode na de overgang in het IBW. …