- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Sleep and related disorders
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Sexual function and dysfunction studies
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Mental Health via Writing
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Liver Diseases and Immunity
- Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
Open University of the Netherlands
2024-2025
Maastricht University
2022-2025
Erasmus University Rotterdam
2022-2024
Erasmus MC
2020-2024
University of Basel
2014-2023
Bielefeld University
2007-2022
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
2011-2016
University of Bern
2011-2016
Control interventions (often called "sham," "placebo," or "attention controls") are essential for studying the efficacy mechanism of physical, psychological, and self-management in clinical trials. This article presents core recommendations designing, conducting, reporting control to establish a quality standard non-pharmacological intervention research. A framework additional considerations supports researchers' decision making this context. We also provide checklist enhance research...
Abstract Scales of rape myth acceptance (RMA) often yield low means and skewed distributions. This is proposed to be because a change in rape‐related beliefs toward more subtle content. Incorporating insights from racism sexism research, 30‐item self‐report scale measuring the modern myths about sexual aggression (AMMSA) presented. Across four studies (total N =1,279), reliability validity parallel German English versions AMMSA were examined. The results show that both language are highly...
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prevalent mental disorder, with high risk of chronicity, comorbidity, and functional impairment; PTSD complicated to treat, the debate on best treatment approach ongoing.To examine comparative outcomes acceptability psychotherapeutic pharmacological treatments their combinations in adults PTSD.Embase, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, PSYNDEX were searched for studies published from January 1, 1980, February 28, 2018. Reference...
(Reprinted with permission from PLoS Med 2013; 10(5):e1001454).
The debate on the clinical, scientific as well ethical implication of placebo and its effects is important, but has mainly focused placebos with a medicinal somatic meaning, such pharmaceutical, surgical, or so called alternative interventions. However, this perspective omits role processes in interventions psychotherapeutic psychotherapy. Based theoretically derived differentiation concept we argue that although it difficult to prove psychotherapy verum, possible use can best be described...