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During the COVID-19 outbreak the transdisciplinary research project CAVE (Community Engagement and Vulnerability Assessment in Epidemics) investigated perceptions and practicability of public health communication among stakeholders of care and social facilities in Austria. It aimed at finding accurate definitions of vulnerability in the context of...
Der Klimawandel ist eine globale und systemische Krise, deren tiefgreifende und weitreichende Folgen zu ihrer moralischen Relevanz beitragen. Im Rahmen dieser theoretischen Übersichtsarbeit werden Grundlagen der Moralisierung sowie deren unterschiedliche Effekte im Kontext des Klimawandels zusammengeführt, um ein ganzheitliches Bild von den vielfäl...
Zusammenfassung: Theoretischer Hintergrund: Yoga gewinnt als vielversprechender Behandlungsansatz bei Essstörungen zunehmend an Bedeutung, dennoch fehlen spezifische Studien im stationären, jugendpsychiatrischen Setting. Fragestellung: Was sind die Herausforderungen, Wirkmechanismen und Empfehlungen für die Anwendung von Yoga bei dieser Patient_inn...
Die Tiroler COVID-19 Kinderstudie untersuchte die psychische Gesundheit der Nord- und Südtiroler Kindergartenkinder während der COVID-19-Pandemie aus der Sicht von Eltern und Elementarpädagog_innen. Diese Teilstudie wurde im Mixed-Methods Design durchgeführt. In einer quantitativen Online-Befragung wurden 743 Nord- und Südtiroler Eltern zu drei Mes...
In diesem Beitrag wird aufgezeigt, dass das Gesundheitspersonal während der COVID-19-Pandemie nicht nur physisch, sondern auch psychisch stark belastet war. Unterschiedliche Risikofaktoren wie ein junges Alter, das weibliche Geschlecht, ein niedriger sozioökonomischer Status und bereits bestehende psychische Erkrankungen spielten eine Rolle. Das Ge...
Zusammenfassung
Hintergrund
Die COVID-19 Pandemie (“coronavirus disease 2019”) stellt für den Gesundheitsbereich eine Herausforderung dar. Zur Bewältigung dieser durch angepasste Maßnahmen ist die Einbeziehung von betroffenen Gruppen zentral.
Ziel
Im Rahmen dieses Papers wird die wahrgenommene soziale Teilhabe von Mitarbeitenden in Altenpflegeein...
In the project "Resilient Children", a resilience promotion program for kindergartens and elementary schools was directly applied and evaluated during the COVID-19-crisis.The aim of the study was to strengthen the three sources of resilience according to Grotberg (1995) I HAVE, I AM and I CAN through targeted exercises and resilience-promoting comm...
Zusammenfassung: Theoretischer Hintergrund: Bei der COVID-19-Pandemie handelt es sich um eine globale Krise und internationale Studien zeigen Auswirkungen auf Kinder aus Sicht von Kindern und Eltern. Fragestellung: Da die COVID-19-Pandemie eine alle betreffende, neuartige Krisensituation darstellt, wurde in der vorliegenden qualitativen Teilstudie...
The COVID-19 crisis caused extensive mental health strains. Sense of coherence (SOC) is considered a protective factor for mental health in crisis that might also be decisive during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the mechanisms are not yet well understood. Using longitudinal survey data of 117 Austrian university students collected in 2020, we tested b...
In diesem Buchkapitel geht es um die Resilienzförderung auf der Ebene von Einzelpersonen, Gruppen und Gemeinschaften.
While the COVID-19 pandemic has been dominating public discourse since its emergence climate change continues to progress. Early on during the pandemic, scientists began to investigate how both crises are related to each other and what can be learned from the pandemic to improve the response to climate change. Still, folk theories and public percep...
During the present COVID-19 pandemic healthcare workers are confronted with multiple stressors. At the beginning of the pandemic these stressors mainly related to health and safety issues. In the course of the pandemic societal stressors became more salient. These include lacking credibility of important stakeholders (leadership, organization and p...
Die COVID-19 Pandemie stellte einen gravierenden Einschnitt in das Leben von Studierenden und anderen jungen Menschen dar. Im Rahmen dieser Studie wurden Studierende der Universität Innsbruck zu ihrem psychosozialen Befinden sowie zu ihrer Wahrnehmung, Einstellung und Verhalten bezüglich der Krise befragt. Wiederholte Erhebungen über die ersten zwe...
The COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying containment measures such as physical distancing and school closures led to major changes in children’s everyday lives. By means of a mixed-methods study, the “Tyrolean COVID-19 Children’s Study” investigated the effects of the pandemic and factors influencing mental health and health-related quality of li...
Die COVID-19-Pandemie erforderte die Umstellung von Psychotherapie auf Distanzmethoden. Basierend auf quantitativen Längs-schnittdaten (N = 101) sowie Expert*inneninterviews mit elf Lehrtherapeut*innen wurden die Perspektiven von personzentrierten Therapeut*innen auf Distanztherapie untersucht. Dabei zeigten sich unterschiedliche Schwierigkeiten be...
The SARS-CoV2 pandemic meant considerable restrictions in the social life of many people. Older people belong to the high-risk group for a severe to fatal course of the SARS-CoV2 disease, which is why these groups received special protection. This protection included drastic restrictions on their personal and social contacts, including the suspensi...
Ethical dilemmas for healthcare workers (HCWs) during pandemics highlight the centrality of moral stressors and moral distress (MD) as well as potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs) and moral injury (MI). These constructs offer a novel approach to understanding workplace stressors in healthcare settings, especially in the demanding times of C...
The global crises of climate change and of the COVID-19 pandemic are straining young peoples’ mental health and their mitigation behaviours. We surveyed German-speaking university students aged 18 to 30 years on their negative emotions regarding both crises repeatedly before and during the COVID-19 crisis. Different emotional patterns emerged for c...
Deutsch Ziel dieser qualitativen Arbeit ist es, stresserzeugende und stressreduzierende Faktoren von Führungskräften in der Pflege auszuarbeiten, angewandte Strategien zu beschreiben, welche die Bewältigung der Krise unterstützen und die psychosoziale Verfassung von Pflegekräften, und somit auch die Verpflegung Bewohnender, verbessern. Im Rahmen de...
Background: The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the daily life of girls and boys worldwide.
Methods: This online study explored the effects of Covid-19 containment measures on Austrian and Italian children’s mental health (threat experience, anxiety, trauma symptoms). Data was collected at three measurement time points (June 2020, December 2020, Ju...
Numerous measures were implemented to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Adhering to these measures as well as getting vaccinated is associated with subjective costs and benefits. Since young people like university students largely feel less vulnerable to the virus, other costs and benefits than health might be more decisive for them. This article comb...
Die Covid-19-Pandemie hat wie bereits vorherige Pandemien/Epidemien (SARS 1, Ebola, H1N1) gezeigt, dass das Gesundheitspersonal in diesen Ereignissen spezielle Risiken für psychosoziale Folgeerscheinungen trägt. Der vorliegende Review geht auf den Forschungsstand zu speziellen Risiko- und Schutzfaktoren auf individueller sowie auf organisationaler...
Zusammenfassung. Sowohl online als auch offline Peer-Viktimisierung (PV) in ihrer direkten und indirekten Form stehen als Stressoren in einem Zusammenhang mit emotionalen Problemen bei Jugendlichen. Welche Faktoren diesen Zusammenhang vermitteln, ist noch nicht ausreichend geklärt. Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich auf Grundlage von Stress-,...
Violence has many forms. One form of violence relates to auto-aggression, which includes suicide attempts and suicide itself. In this narrative review we focus on adolescent suicide and how school staff and students can be supported after such an event.
Adolescent suicide endangers the wellbeing of all groups involved in a school context (teachers,...
Background: Highly adverse events can shatter fundamental assumptions about one’s self and the expected course of life actuating a process of adjustment regarding new appraisals. This struggle in the aftermath of adversity might yield posttraumatic growth (PTG), which refers to positive transformation within the person. PTG is a concept that has be...
Zusammenfassung
Peer Viktimisierung (PV) im Jugendalter kann mit psychischen Belastungen über die Lebensspanne hinweg einhergehen. Obwohl eine Vielzahl von Instrumenten zur Erfassung von PV entwickelt wurden, fehlen häufig Evidenzen für deren Einsatz. Besonders bei den Instrumenten zur Erfassung von Cybermobbing fehlen oft psychometrische Berechnun...
Few studies are planned to ‘give voice’ to children from different cultural backgrounds to explore their sources of happiness. To address this gap, the present study analysed focus group discussions with 42 South Indian and 48 European children aged 8 to 17 years. During the discussions, the children were asked about what makes them happy and sad a...
Prevalence and characteristics of peer victimisation in adolescent psychiatric inpatients Abstract.
Objective:
Repeated and long-lasting victimisation, as defined by bullying, represents a wide spread health hazard. The aim of the present study was to present the prevalence of bullying in adolescent psychiatric inpatients. We analysed relations b...
Background:
Attachment is a psychological parameter across cultures and is influenced by childhood experiences. Though the construct of attachment tends to certain stability, different influences, like culture, can change the quality of attachment during lifetime. As can be seen from the example of depression in adulthood the clinical symptoms of...
Disasters can have an enormous impact on the health and well-being of those affected. Internationally, governments and service providers are often challenged to address complex psychosocial problems. Ideally, the potentially broad range of support activities include a coherent, high-quality mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programme....
PsyQual—MHPSS programme evaluation tool.
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Generalized structural equation modelling.
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Generalized structural equation modelling.
Step 2. Modelling of associations.
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Background
Members of emergency teams are exposed to increased burdens during their operations. The difference between the role of officers in charge and members of emergency teams has not yet been considered. If there are differences in emotion regulation processes in those two groups, it should be concluded that different methods in aftercare are...
The Impact of Risk Factors and Effective Factors on Success in Crisis Intervention for Children and Adolescents This article focuses on the evaluation of (inpatient) crisis interventions for children and adolescents, who can be admitted into the residential area of the KIZ for up to eight weeks in order to provide acute protection against massive v...
The study focuses on psychosocial functioning of female Turkish immigrants in Austria with recurrent depressive disorder participating in self-help groups. Self-help groups guided by group leaders of Turkish descent should increase autonomy in participants, providing the opportunity to follow their ethnic health beliefs. Turkish immigrant women (n...
Zusammenfassung Es werden Besonderheiten kindlicher normaler Trauer wie auch traumatischer bzw. komplexer Trauer als Reaktionen auf Akuttraumata, sowie die daraus resultierenden Bedurfnisse dargestellt. Im Anschluss daran, werden adaquate Interventionsformen aufgezeigt.
Specifities of grief in children after trauma will be presented as well as potential reactions to acute traumatization and resulting needs of children and adolescents in order to discuss adequate interventions.
This article focuses on the evaluation of (inpatient) crisis interventions for children and adolescents, who can be admitted into the residential area of the KIZ for up to eight weeks in order to provide acute protection against massive violence, neglect or family conflicts in emergency situations. How successful the crisis intervention is or can b...
This qualitative study was carried out to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for Iranian migrants suffering from major depressive disorder (MDD) and living in Austria for an average of 14 years. The qualitative data were collected through interviews based on the Farsi version of the Structured Clinical Interview for...
Millions of volunteers respond after disasters, with a 24% to 46% risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is unclear which symptom trajectories develop and how they differ between core (volunteering before the disaster) and noncore volunteers (joining after the disaster) and which factors predict trajectories. Symptoms of PTSD w...
Effectiveness of Group based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy was investigated in a sample of 23 Iranian migrants living in Austria for an average 14 years and suffering from Major Depressive Disorder. The participants were randomized to: (1) individual CBT, (2) group based CBT and (3) wait-list control groups. Although the results showed a significant...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Group based Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (GCBT) for Iranian migrants with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) in Austria. Twenty-three Iranian women and men with an average, 40.4 years old that met DSM-IV criteria for MDD were randomized to the GCBT, Individual CBT, and Waiting-List contro...
Introduction
aggression and self-harm are often encountered in daily clinical routines. A better understanding of these behaviors is important.
Objectives
We investigated with self-report measures the kind of relationship between aggression, impulsivity, self-harm, suicide attempts and third party observation of staff.
We Aimed at a nalyzing wheth...
This paper examined the association of mothers’ and children’s posttraumatic stress reactions in the long-term aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami in South India. M 106 mothers gave answers for their 221 tsunami-affected children to the Traumatic Events Screening Inventory and the Parent Report of Child’s Reaction to Stress. The Impact of Event Scale and...
The impact of disaster work on community volunteers: The role of peri-traumatic distress, level of personal affectedness, sleep quality and resource loss, on post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and subjective health a b s t r a c t Disaster work has shown to cause PTSD symptoms and subjective health complaints in professional emer-gency personn...
This book explores the broad view on child well-being and the quality of life research. It starts with a discussion of the origin of the s4ocial indicator movement and a review of literature on the concepts of quality of life, (subjective) well-being and resilience. It then discusses the force of culture on child development, and shows how two prot...
The southern state Tamil Nadu was the worst hit part of the Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster in 2004. Mostly, fishing families were affected. The present study was one work-package of a larger research project with the acronym ‘post-Tsunami.’ The main purpose of the present study was to develop contextualized child well-being indicators. With other wo...
The force of culture on child development will be highlighted. Based on the literature, it will be shown how two prototypical environments (rural subsistence-based and urban Western environment) favor either the independent or interdependent self-model, which in turn have implications on what competencies are valued in a specific culture and what d...
The Southern state of Tamil Nadu was the worst hit part of the Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster in 2004. Mostly fishing families were affected. The present study was one work-package of a larger research project with the acronym ‘post-Tsunami.’ Out of the concepts of caregivers’ and children’ own views on child well-being, a list of child well-being i...
The main purpose of the present study was to find out what makes up child well-being from a caregiver’s and a child’s perspective in the given subculture more than four years after the Indian Ocean Tsunami. Both, caregivers and children had the opportunity to shape the well-being concept. Out of the results, four major conclusions referring to the...
Background: Based on Berry's acculturation theory and on concepts of social support, we tested the assumption that sponsorships by laypeople would moderate acculturative stress by reducing psychological and physical strain and by enhancing psychological and socio-cultural adaptation in refugees.
Methods: N = 63 Chechnyan and Afghan refugees (N = 2...
Migration may be the source of positive as well as negative life events such as loss of relationships and social supports. Some mental health problems such as depression can be brought about by immigrating and adapting to a new cultural environment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Group Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy am...
Although little is acknowledged about the composed efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Group Therapy, many studies recommended that Group Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy can be recognized as a well-rounded remedy for depression. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Group Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy among Iranian adu...
Frauen sind in fast allen Gesellschaftsschichten und Kulturen mit physischer, psychischer und sexueller
Gewalt konfrontiert. Diese hat Einfluss auf das emotionale und korperliche Erleben von Schwangerschaft,
Geburt, Wochenbett und Mutterschaft. Wie konnen wir Hinweise auf Traumatisierungen erkennen und wie
konnen wir eine stabilisierende und ressou...
Background: Based on Berry's acculturation theory and on concepts of social support, we
tested the assumption that sponsorships by laypeople would moderate acculturative stress
by reducing psychological and physical strain and by enhancing psychological and socio-
cultural adaptation in refugees. Methods: N= 63 Chechnyan and Afghan refugees (N= 27...
Subjektives Wohlbefinden (SWB) wird umgangssprachlich als Glück
bezeichnet und stellt die Evaluation einer Person über das eigene
Leben dar. Auch in der Wissenschaft werden diese Begriffe oftmals
synonym verwendet. Glücklich sein oder Unglücklich sein hat wesentliche
Auswirkungen auf die Gesundheit und das Verhalten von
Kindern. In diesem Beitrag w...
The present article investigates whether or not mothers of infants with functional constipation have a specific relationship pattern. This question is addressed by analyzing the data collected at the day care clinic for infant regulation disorders with appropriate methods like the questionnaire for the assessment of adjustment of mothers with child...
Based on the literature, recent shifts of child well-being indicators and the most important trends
on child well-being measurements are highlighted. A comparison of domains and indicators
of current evidence-based national composite child well-being indices and child well-being
indices from children’s point of view is shown. Against this backgroun...
This literature overview focuses on the origin of the social indicator movement and gives a review on the concepts of quality of life, (subjective) well-being, and resilience. Delineations of the three concepts and their interplay, especially their intersection, are assumed to capture a full understanding of child well-being.
Grundlagen
Angesichts der hohen Prävalenz von etwa 5 % von mit Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit und/oder Hyperaktivitätssyndrom betroffenen Kindern wurde der Wissensstand von Tiroler Pädagoginnen und Pädagogen an ausgewählten Bildungseinrichtungen untersucht.
Methodik
Im Rahmen der Diplomarbeit von A. Aglan wurden zwischen Mai und Oktober 2010 170 Frageböge...
BACKGROUND: Given the high prevalence of approximately 5 % of Attention Deficit and/or Hyperactivity Disorder in children the level of knowledge of Tyrolean educators at selected educational institutions was examined. METHODS: As part of the thesis of A. Aglan 170 questionnaires were distributed at selected Tyrolean schools from May to October 2010...
Lay counsellors provide valuable psychosocial support in many different circumstances, such as manning telephone helplines for cancer patients, assisting people after crisis events or giving focused support to refugees or other vulnerable groups. This paper describes the process that a consortium of four humanitarian organisations followed to devel...
The aim of this article is to depict challenges and possibilities of the term resilience. The effective methods to promote resilience after traumatic events are discussed on the basis of a case example. One problematic aspect of the definition is the description of resilience as individual and innate trait. In contrast to this individualistic appro...
Abstract During disasters, aid organizations often respond using the resources of local volunteer members from the affected population who are not only inexperienced, but who additionally take on some of the more psychologically and physically difficult tasks in order to provide support for their community. Although not much empirical evidence exis...
