Background: The prevalence of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) in people with Mild Intellectual Disability and Borderline Intellectual Functioning (MID-BIF) is high and evidence-based treatment programs are scarce. The present study describes the development of a personalised SUD treatment for people with …

Jongeren met autisme, ad(h)d, angststoornis, borderline, depressie, anorexia of een andere psychische stoornis doen het op school steeds beter. Maar de overstap naar de arbeidsmarkt blijkt moeilijk. Meer tijd, betere begeleiding en tegelijkertijd ‘zo normaal mogelijk’ doen, moeten verbetering brengen. …

The aging process is often accompanied by increase in body weight. Older adults with overweight or obesity might have an overconsumption in energy that is accompanied by inadequate intake of protein, vitamin D, and calcium. It is unclear if intake of protein and vitamin D and calcium is sufficient in …

Therapy alliance has been studied largely in voluntary psychotherapy but less is known about its predictive factors for positive alliance and treatment outcome in forensic populations. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between offenders’ emotional states and therapy alliance. Moreover, …

Background: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are an overlooked risk factor for behavioural, mental and physical health disparities in children with intellectual disabilities (ID) and borderline intellectual functioning (BIF). Aims: To gain insight into the presence of the 10 original Wave II ACEs …

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 …

Online meeting for the presentations of the interim findings of the research aspart of the Borderline Offensive project.

In dit onderzoek wordt er onderzocht in hoeverre de begeleiding bij de doelgroep borderline-persoonlijkheidsstoornis verbeterd kan worden bij de organisatie BMO in Harderwijk. De begeleiders bij BMO lopen tegen een aantal aspecten aan die de begeleiding bemoeilijken. Er wordt gestreefd naar een zo goed …

Background In the Netherlands, Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) teams have been established for people with mild intellectual disability (MID) or borderline intellectual functioning (BIF) and mental health problems or challenging behaviour. Little is known yet about service users’ experiences …

This study explores variables that predict physical violence in 614 (forensic) psychiatric inpatients. All violent incidents that occurred in a Dutch forensic psychiatric hospital between 2014 and 2019 (N = 3,713) were coded with the Modified Overt Aggression Scale+ based on daily hospital reports and …