Background: Information is scarce concerning the perceived needs and the amount of health-care utilization of persons with suicidal ideation (SI) compared to those without SI. Aims: To describe the needs and health care use of persons with and without SI and to investigate whether these differences are …

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 …

The aim of this study is to obtain insight, from a patients perspective, into the results and essential components of treatment in specialist settings for so-called difficult patients in mental health care. In cases where usual hospital treatment is not successful, a temporary transfer to another, specialist …

Psychiatrische klachten komen vaak voor bij verpleeghuisbewoners. De psychiatrische expertise en ondersteuning verschillen per verpleeghuis. Uit internationale studies blijkt dat psychiatrische consultatie effectief kan zijn, maar in Nederland is nog nauwelijks onderzoek verricht. …

Auteurs laten in Opleiden voor de sociale psychiatrie: en intensief programma Community Based Health in Nijmegen zien hoe uitwisseling van ervaring tussen verschillende hogescholen uit verschillende landen kan bijdragen aan verbetering van de kwaliteit en samenwerking tussen hogescholen en de ontwikkeling …

Proefschrift Koekkoek, B.W., 2011, Dissertation Introduction This thesis concerns patients that are perceived as ‘difficult’ by professionals in mental health care. It is a study of an interpersonal phenomenon with moral implications (judging patients) related to a specific context (community mental …

The aim of this study is to obtain insight, from a patient's perspective, into the results and essential components of treatment in specialist settings for so-called ‘difficult’ patients in mental health care. In cases where usual hospital treatment is not successful, a temporary transfer to another, …

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 …