Efficacy of an internet-based written imagery rescripting intervention for survivors of institutional childhood abuse - A randomized controlled trial.

Background: Institutional childhood abuse can have a long-term impact on the survivors' mental health, however, treatment for this group is limited and not always accessible. An internet-based intervention was developed, with the aim to reduce psychological sequelae relating to institutional abuse.

Objective: This study aimed to examine the efficacy of an online imagery rescripting intervention for survivors of institutional abuse, through assessing symptoms of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and CPTSD.

Internet-based imagery rescripting intervention for adult survivors of institutional childhood abuse in the former German Democratic Republic - a pilot study.

From 1949 to 1990, about 500,000 children and adolescents in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) were placed in institutional care. Many of these individuals experienced physical and sexual abuse as well as general maltreatment. While this population group is in great need of psychosocial support, few low-threshold interventions aimed at the needs of adult survivors of institutional childhood abuse exist.

[Disease burden of borderline personality disorder: cost of illness, somatic comorbidity and mortality].

Background: Severe mental illnesses (SMI) are characterized by high psychosocial impairment as well as by increased somatic morbidity and mortality. The term SMI commonly includes psychotic, bipolar and severe unipolar depressive disorders but borderline personality disorder (BPD) also shows severe sequelae of the disease.

Material And Methods: Published reviews and studies since 2010 examining disease burden of BPD, in terms of direct and indirect costs of illness, somatic comorbidity, and mortality were included.