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Associations Between Resilience, Psychological Well-Being, Work-Related Stress and Covid-19 Fear in Forensic Healthcare Workers Using a Network Analysis KU Leuven
Forensic healthcare workers deal with patients with severe psychiatric and behavioral problems that put them at an increased risk of developing work-related stress and burnout. Working with this target group of patients during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic with far-reaching restrictive measures can negatively affect the psychological well-being of forensic workers. Research suggests that resilience can buffer workplace stress ...
Not easy to treat forensic patients. The development and initial validation of the Mind-scale KU Leuven University of Antwerp
The construction of the Mind-scale was initiated by therapeutic experiences with forensic patients that are not easy to treat. They impressed by their emotional disconnection and misleading psychological insight. Moreover, these patients strongly advocate a self-assured autonomy, bluntly saying that mandatory treatment is unnecessary. Winnicott's Theory of Mind describes and explains these clinical characteristics and inspired, together with ...
Analysing forensic processes: Taking time into account. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A great deal of forensic psychology concerns sequences of behaviours or events. In this paper, we review some recent efforts to examine forensic issues as sequences, discuss some of the contemporary methodologies involved, and highlight some of the lessons that emerge from this research. Specifically, we show: (i) how research on public violence has benefited from studying incidents as patterns of cues and responses among perpetrators and ...
Self-Regulation All Bass-Ackwards: Similarities and Differences in Component Structure in Community and Forensic Psychiatric Populations KU Leuven
Self-regulation is a multifaceted construct that is defined as the ability to change thoughts, emotions, and behavior to achieve a desired state or effect. Despite its relevance for forensic psychology and other fields within psychology, its complexity and varied operationalization make it difficult to compare and draw conclusions from research. The present study aimed to elucidate the construct of self-regulation by applying a Bass-Ackwards ...
Not easy to treat forensic patients. The development and initial validation of the Mind-scale KU Leuven
Forensic Assertive Community Treatment in a Continuum of Care for Male Internees in Belgium: Results After 33 Months KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel University of Antwerp
Non-forensic or regular assertive community treatment (ACT) has positive effects on non-forensic outcomes but has poor effects on forensic outcome measures. In this study, we examined non-forensic and forensic outcome measures of a forensic adaptation of ACT (ForACT) within a continuum of care for internees. Data were collected retrospectively from files of 70 participants in the ForACT group who had been released from a forensic hospital. The ...
Can measures of cognitive flexibility and inhibition distinguish forensic psychiatric inpatients from prisoners? University of Antwerp
We investigated whether forensic psychiatric inpatients can be distinguished from prisoners and healthy controls on the basis of their performance on cognitive tasks measuring cognitive flexibility (with a reversal learning task) and inhibition (with a stop signal task). Forensic psychiatric inpatients were expected to perform worse compared to prisoners. This study was based on pre-existing data from N = 241 males (119 forensic psychiatric ...
Forensic psychiatry University of Antwerp
Forensic psychiatry is an exciting specialty of psychiatry. It takes care of chronic, highly complicated psychiatric patients with problems in various domains, e.g., diagnostic comorbidity, and circumstantial risks. In this chapter, we will provide a brief overview of the most important issues in forensic psychiatry. First, we define forensic psychiatry. Next, key themes in the practice of forensic psychiatry are described. Important data about ...
The Ability of Forensic Psychiatric Patients with Substance Use Disorder to Learn Neurofeedback KU Leuven
© 2018, © 2018 International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services. Despite the increasing use of neurofeedback in clinical psychology, it is rarely used in forensic psychiatric settings. This study investigated whether forensic psychiatric patients (n = 19) diagnosed with substance use disorder were able to learn to control EEG-activity based on a sensorimotor rhythm/theta neurofeedback protocol. Criteria for qualifying patients as ...