Maria Mauritz

Radboud University Medical Centre (Radboudumc) and GGNet · IQ Healthcare

Background Patients with severe mental illness with repeated interpersonal trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have a negative illness progression. Traumas are often not treated because of their vulnerability. Narrative exposure therapy (NET) is an effective trauma therapy. It is unknown whether NET is effective and tolerable in these...

Dissociatie is een toestand waarbij iemand het gevoel heeft los te raken van zichzelf. Dit heet depersonalisatie. Daarnaast kan sprake zijn van derealisatie. Dan lijkt de bekende omgeving vreemd. In een dissociatieve toestand weet iemand niet goed wat echt is en wat niet. Verpleegkundigen hebben een belangrijke rol bij het observeren van deze toest...

Interpersonal trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in severe mentally ill (SMI) patients negatively affect the illness course. Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) is effective in vulnerable patient groups, but its efficacy and applicability has not been studied in SMI outpatients. Aims Evaluating efficacy and applicability of NET in SMI on...

Background: Severe mentally ill patients with repeated interpersonal trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have a negative illness progression. Traumas are often not treated because of their vulnerability. Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) is an effective trauma therapy. It is unknown whether NET is effective and tolerable in these patien...

Background: In the Netherlands, most patients with severe mental illness (SMI) receive flexible assertive community treatment (FACT) provided by multidisciplinary community mental health teams. SMI patients with comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are sometimes offered evidence-based trauma-focused treatment like eye movement desensitiza...

This chapter describes the development of a care program for patients with severe mental illness and complex traumarelated disorders. Phase based treatment (including diagnostics, stabilization, trauma focused therapy and recovery) is the underlying model for this care program. For each phase, several pathways were developed including individual an...

Abstract Background: In patients with co-morbid Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Complex PTSD) and psychotic disorder, trauma focused therapy may be difficult to endure. Phase-based treatment including (1) stabilization, (2) trauma focused therapy, and (3) integration of personality with recovery of connection, appears to be the treatment of...

Interpersonal trauma exposure and trauma-related disorders in people with severe mental illness (SMI) are often not recognized in clinical practice. To substantiate the prevalence of interpersonal trauma exposure and trauma-related disorders in people with SMI. We conducted a systematic review of four databases (1980-2010) and then described and an...

Background and objective: In patients with comorbid complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (complex PTSD) and psychotic disorder, trauma focused therapy may be difficult to endure. Phase-based treatment including (1) stabilization, (2) trauma focused therapy, and (3) integration of personality with recovery of connection, appears to be the treatment...

Background: Interpersonal trauma exposure and trauma-related disorders in people with severe mental illness are often not recognized in clinical practice. Objective: The aim of this study was to substantiate the prevalence of interpersonal trauma exposure and trauma-related disorders in people with severe mental illness.

Schizophrenia enormously impacts the lives of the patients who have this psychiatric disorder. This study addresses the lived experience of grief in schizophrenia. A qualitative study based on the grounded theory was designed. Ten patients were interviewed in depth on their feelings of loss and ways of coping. All respondents experienced significan...