Background: Treatment resistance in patients with anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) might be caused by dysfunctional personality traits or, more specifically, early maladaptive schemas (EMSs) and schema modes, that can be treated with schema therapy (ST).
Aim: To explore possible effectiveness of ST-CBT day-treatment in patients with treatment-resistant anxiety disorders and OCD in an uncontrolled pilot study.
Method: Treatment-resistant patients with anxiety disorders or OCD ( = 27) were treated with ST-CBT day-treatment for 37 weeks on average including 11.
Tijdschr Psychiatr
March 2019
Cutbacks in clinical beds in regular and forensic psychiatry increase the burden on outpatient forensic care in The Netherlands.
AIM: Since 2007, Dutch forensic (flexible) assertive community treatment (For(F)ACT) teams offer outpatient, intensive treatment to forensic clients with complex mental health issues. As the need for this form of intensive treatment increases, so does the need for unambiguous indication criteria to facilitate adequate care and accompanied reduction in criminal behavior.
Both in dialysis patients and non-uremic patients heart failure is associated with an adverse prognosis. In a state of abrupt worsening of cardiac function, acute cardiogenic shock or decompensated congestive heart failure, acute kidney injury may occur, whereas in a more chronic worsening of cardiac function chronic kidney injury may occur. Recently, the term cardiorenal syndrome was adopted and defined as "a pathophysiological disorder of the heart and kidneys whereby acute or chronic dysfunction in one organ may induce acute or chronic dysfunction in the other organ".
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground/aims: Clinical outcome in cardiorenal syndrome (CRS) Type 2 and treatment with dialysis.
Methods: Prospective observational non-randomized study.
Results: Twenty-three patients were included, mean age 66±21 years.