Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group

ProfileArq Psychotrauma Expert Group

Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group is not only nationally but also internation-ally the leading group of experts in the field of psychotraumatology and the impact of overwhelming events on individuals, organisations and society at large. The Netherlands is a strong player in this field. Arq fosters the ambi-tion to further expand its international position as an expert, with resilience and prevention in particular being allotted an increasingly important role. In this, Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group focuses both on applying in other countries the experience and knowledge gained in the Netherlands and on utilizing the international experience in the treatment and interventions in the Netherlands.

Overwhelming event?Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group:– brings together, develops and shares expertise– manages and advises– provides specialist services and care

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HistoryArq Psychotrauma Expert Group

Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group was formed in 2007. The initiative for this had come from Foundation Centrum ’45, and was underpinned by the conviction that close cooperation on the theme of psychotrauma care is of great added value to both clients and institutions. Over the years the group has expanded. Each workin wn field and in its own manner, all affili-ated institutions are engaged in the prevention and impact of overwhelming events or psychotrauma. Arq brings together the affiliated partners’ specialisms, facilitates and connects. Besides, Arq initiates and drives the public discourse on the matter.

administrative merger Foundation Centrum ’45 and the 1940-1945 Foundation

establish- ment Founda- tion Arq

+ IVP

+Equator Foundation

+ Police Outpatient Unit AMC becomes part of PDC

+ Foundation Arq Psychotrauma Research

+ War Trauma Foundation, Cogis, Impact

+Foundation Pelita

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

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MissionArq Psychotrauma Expert Group

Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group sees it as its mission to help prevent adverse health effects of overwhelming events where possible. Arq offers effective support and (after)care where necessary. The demand for specialist care services in the wake of overwhelming events is of a limited and episodic nature. Prevention, support, (after)care and research need to be organized in the best possible manner. Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group has thus set itself the task of bringing together and enhancing knowledge and expertise gained in the field of psychotrauma. The aim is to enable people who find themselves in well-nigh unliveable situations due to the impact of overwhelm-ing events to pick up the threads of their lives again and to help them live autonomously, within their own social context and regain trust.

Prevention, guidelines and toolsIVP, Impact

(After)carePDC, Equator Foundation, Foundation Centrum ’45, IVP

Development and dissemination of scientific knowledge Impact, Cogis, War Trauma Foundation, IVP, Foundation Centrum ’45

Support for target groupsFoundation Pelita, the 1940-1945 Foundation

The professionals of Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group find their great-est challenge and satisfaction in restoring as much as possible of the psychological and social self-management of affected individuals and promoting their interests effectively.

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Environment Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group

Arq is a social enterprise where profit serves as a means of realizing ideals.Arq brings the individual partners not only synergy as to facilities manage-ment in the form of administration and HR services but also, obviously, on the subject of psychotrauma care. On the one hand, Arq actively manages the pooling, developing and spreading of knowledge while the group, on the other hand, provides specialist services and care. As they carry out their activities and research, the various partners in Arq support, stimulate and inspire each other. This has yielded an impressive amount of high-quality products and results.

Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group maintains an open cooperation with the other organizations. Arq likes to work together to further optimize the care and knowledge in the field of psychotrauma and to drive the discourse on social issues to do with psychotrauma.

• Arq is an organization where the whole is much more than the sum of its parts.

• Transparency and quality are of paramount importance.

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OrganisationArq Psychotrauma Expert Group

The executive board and the supervisory board of Foundation Arq and of the partners in Arq form a personal union. For each partner and for Foun-dation Arq, the members are the same individuals. The supervisory board appoints the members of the executive board. Each partner in Arq has a director, who is appointed by the executive board. The guidelines on remuneration under the Dutch Executives’ Pay (Standards) Act for the (semi) public sector are adhered to. There is a Works Council in place for Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group which consists of 10 members. Some partners have their own advisory or client councils.

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Support and aftercareArq Psychotrauma Expert Group

Arq views support, a clear vision for the further development of care ser-vices and policy as one coherent whole. Arq converts its knowledge and experience into interventions and policy in order to be able to work preven-tatively. The partners in Arq possess the expertise to be able to provide the right kind of support at the right moment. Most people recover after an overwhelming event and regain their balance of their own accord. However, a number of people find that their resilience has (temporarily) decreased. By ensuring adequate crisis or incident management that focuses on the psychosocial aspects of the event, an employer and/or the social environ-ment provide a good basis for restoring resilience. With continuing tensions, coaches or experts are available.

Diagnostics and treatment are recommended when someone continues to present persistent stress reactions or health problems following an over-whelming event and these bring obvious distress or restrictions. People suffering from complex psychotrauma complaints, victims of human traffick-ing and refugees may appeal to the specialist care (TOPGGz [TOP Clinical Mental Health Care]) that is available from Arq.

Guidelines and protocols may help authorities and companies set up a good safety net and a code of conduct with which to provide care and support in the wake of overwhelming events. Knowledge based on research and expertise obtained hands-on in the field is made available in accessible and understandable forms by Arq to benefit organisations involved in the after-care to survivors of overwhelming events.

An important mainspring of the establishment of Arq was the wish to utilize what had been learnt from the treatment of WWII survivors with other target groups. One lesson learnt involved the discovery that advocacy, knowledge and care are inextricably bound up with each other. Contacts with fellow survivors, volunteer work, services and social work go to support and promote self-management. Being alive to the context of the overwhelming experiences, recognizing and acknowl edg-ing the impact of traumatic experiences have proved their worth over the past decades.

Prevention where possible Care when needed

LemniscateThe endless movement represents the cyclical and interlocking processes. Knowledge and experience are converted into interventions and preventative policies.

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ResearchArq Psychotrauma Expert Group

One of the core activities of Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group involves trans-lating scientific research into its practical application. Working in cooperation with national and international universities Arq carries out scientific research and coaches researchers. Arq’s primary aim is to enhance the support and (after) care to traumatized individuals.

Education and training are closely connected to the research conducted. Knowledge needs to be disseminated and shared. Thus, Arq organises scien-tific lectures and conferences and offers, if so requested, a variety of courses, modules and training activities, for instance in collaboration with the training institute RINO Noord-Holland [Regional Institution for Continuing Training and Education]. Arq also contributes to the training for psychiatrists, psychothera-pists, healthcare-psychologists, and clinical psychologists. Trainees of such vocational training programmes as the UAS Nursing course [HBO-V], advanced nursing course (nurse practitioners), social work, socio-educational care work [SPH] and non-verbal therapy do part of their work experience with Arq.

Professors attached to Arq • Prof. R.J. (Rolf) Kleber, Professor, by special appointment,

of Psychotraumatology at the University of Utrecht • Prof. M. (Miranda) Olff, Professor, by special appointment, of Neurobio-

logical Mechanisms of Prevention and Treatment in Trauma and PTSD, AMC/University of Amsterdam

• Prof. H.G.J.M. (Eric) Vermetten, Professor, by special appointment, of Medico-Biological and Psychiatric Aspects of Psychotrauma, LUMC/ Leiden University

• Prof. B.P.R. (Berthold) Gersons, Professor emeritus of Psychiatry AMC/University of Amsterdam and senior adviser Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group

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PsychotraumanetArq Psychotrauma Expert Grou p

Arq has developed the digital Dutch and English-language Psychotraumanet to make knowledge accessible and available to a wide variety of target groups, including war victims, care givers and students. Of course, this knowledge network also comprises all Arq development areas. Arq deploys www.psychotraumanet.org/en to share information widely. Psychotrauma-net is an online knowledge platform on the theme of psychosocial care and safety during and following overwhelming events. Psychotraumanet is an open knowledge platform that also features contributions from external experts.

Research projects and the application of knowledge converge in the development areas in which Arq partners participate in varying compositions.Their expert status is based on their scientific research.This research needs to have social relevance as well as practical applications. Arq is an authority on the subject of social issues of psychotrauma care. Because of this, Arq holds a great appeal for (inter) national specialists working in this field. In order to structure its research Arq has opted to work with development areas linked to the different stages of psychotrauma:

war wwII

resilience & organisation

disasters & crises

aggression management

screening & diagnostics

evidence-based treatment

complextrauma

child & family

trauma & diversity

humanitarianemergencies

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e-HealthArq Psychotrauma Expert Group

Arq is developing possibilities as to e-health, including a digital patient plat-form, apps for screening, diagnostics and treatment as well as virtual-reality programmes. Arq is enhancing its diagnostics and referral function through product differentiation. Arq not only develops registration apps that can quickly distinguish between a light but adequate diagnosis or a diagnosis that is of necessity comprehensive, but also develops an aggression app and toolkit for managers. Thus, the aggression app comes with a syllabus with some theory, an escalation game, stress management, protocols and offers the possibility to report aggression. This enables ‘blended learning’, where electronic and personal contacts are combined. It furthers a better embedding of knowledge. The tool kit offers possibilities for putting aggression within an organisation on the agenda and for tackling it. Arq is enhancing its visibility through the use of media such as Twitter and LinkedIn and opens up knowledge and information through databanks such as the Knowledge Bank Overwhelming Events, the Indies DVD databank, the Heritage databank and the Kind and Trauma databank.

> www.kindentrauma.nlsearch our databanks online.

> www.echoesonline.nlprovides knowledge about psychosocial prevention following overwhelming events for the benefit of various target groups.

> www.inpreze.nl is the Knowledge platform Internet applications for Prevention and Self-help in mental healthcare, develops innovative IT applications for online prevention, self-help and indication assessment in mental healthcare.

> www.quli.nlis an e-health platform and stands for Quality of Life. Quli is used by 25 care organisations. Quli is a tool to help people take good care of themselves; it gives support with daily activities and treatments.

> www.cbusinez.nlCbusinez is a cooperation in which Arq participates. This joint venture project develops e-health tools for people with anxiety or psychotrauma complaints, by way of prevention and support.

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www.inpreze.nlPublicationsArq Psychotrauma Expert Group

Arq sets great store by embedding its knowledge and experience in publi-cations to benefit scientists, therapists and other interested parties. In the course of time this has yielded an impressive series of influential books and journals. For instance, Arq not only publishes a number of periodicals tailored to specific target groups but also such a unique magazine as Inter-vention, which can claim world-wide readership. This magazine connects science and research with practical care work and provides a lively platform where professionals exchange experiences. Intervention is read in over sixty countries, with summaries in Arabic, French, Russian, Pashto, Sinhala, Spanish and Tamil. The WHO has enabled free-of-charge circulation in local organisations in low and middle-income countries. The magazine can be accessed online via over sixteen hundred academic libraries and research centres.

In these pages, incidentally, you will only find a selection of all the products we have developed over the past years. You are welcome to a complete overview of our publications in our library.

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13 januari 2015Jaarsymposium Kinder- en Jeugdpsychiatriewww.benecke.nl

20 januari 2015E-health in de GGZwww.medilex.nl

22 januari 2014(herhaling 17 februari)Over evidence based op PTSS gerichte interventies en de dilemma’s ervan (Rolf Kleber) & Het voorspellen van behandel-succes bij veteranen met PTSS: Richtlijnaanbevelingen voor de praktijk (Joris Haagen)Refereerbijeenkomst Stichting Centrum ’45 / Stichting ArqAanmelden: directiesecretariaat@centrum45.nl

29 januari 2015Kwetsbare gezinnen in gemeentenwww.medilex.nl

januari-juni 2015Complexe traumatisering – verdie-pingscursus Diagnose en behandelvormen*www.rino.nl

januari-juni 2015Behandeling van getraumatiseerde gezinnenEen trauma heb je nooit alleen*www.rino.nl

januari-december 2015Psychotrauma en ouderenDiagnostiek, behandelvormen en comorbiditeit*www.rino.nl

januari-december 2015Trauma, cultuur en migratieComplicerende factoren bij de behandeling*www.rino.nl

11 februari 2015Mind the Body. Naar een betere lichamelijke gezondheid en leefstijl van patiënten met een ernstige psychische aandoeningwww.sympopna.nl

18 februari en 11 maart 2015Rehabilitatie bij angst en depressie in gespecialiseerde GGZwww.trimbos.nl

februari-mei 2015EMDR basiscursusEye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing bij trauma*www.rino.nl

6 maart 2015Zesde congres Congres Integrale Psychiatrie. De (G)Gz in crisis?www.congresintegralepsychiatrie.nl

6 maart 2015Traumatische rouwBrief Eclectic Psychotherapy for Traumatic Grief*www.rino.nl

9, 16 maart en 14 september 2015Narratieve Exposure Therapie (NET)*www.rino.nl

27 maart 2015Arq Najaarssymposiumwww.arq.org

maart-april 2015Betrouwbare diagnose PTSS met CAPS-5. Aanpassingen naar DSM-5*www.rino.nl

maart-september 2015PTSS na vroegkinderlijk misbruik of mishandelingTraumagerichte behandeling in twee fasen*www.rino.nl

16 april 2015Psychiatrie in de zorg voor mensen met een verstandelijke beperkingwww.medilex.nl

21 april 20153e Landelijke studiedag ‘Basis GGZ’www.leidscongresbureau.nl

23 april 2015(herhaling 26 mei 2015)Co-morbiditeit en diagnostiekRefereerbijeenkomst Stichting Centrum ’45 / Stichting ArqAanmelden: directiesecretariaat@centrum45.nl

24-26 april 2015First International Conference on Transcultural Psychiatry in Central European Countrieswww.wpa-gdynia-2015.org

* Organisatie in handen van Arq i.s.m. RINO Noord-Holland

PartnersArq Psychotrauma Expert Group

The Institute for Psychotrauma (IVP), the only private company in the Arq group, is an expert in the field of overwhelming events. IVP supports and helps authorities, social organisations and the business community to prevent overwhelming events and restrict their impact. IVP offers training and has a national network for (group) care and therapy.

Impact amasses knowledge on psychosocial care and safety in the wake of overwhelming events, and shares that knowledge with inter-ested parties to help them reinforce their resilience and to restrict any adverse effects. Impact offers advice and support to organisations and authorities concerning psychosocial care and safety with crises.

Cogis is the national knowledge institute for the psychosocial impact of war, persecution and violence. Cogis brings its knowledge of war to bear on topical themes such as radicalisation and the question how to deal with victims in the wake of a disaster and the commemoration of war and acts of violence.

The 1940-1945 Foundation provides services to former members of the resistance, victims of persecution and civilian war victims from the 1940-1945 period.

Foundation Pelita is dedicated in the Netherlands to the well-being of Indies Dutch men and women and Moluccans (and their offspring) who were forced to leave the former Dutch East Indies after the war, bersiap (struggle for independence) and decolonisation.

Foundation Centrum ’45 is the national centre for specialist diagnos-tics and treatment of people with complex psychotrauma complaints. Treatment goes hand in hand with quality control and scientific research. Knowledge transfer is of paramount importance. Centrum ’45 carries the TOP Clinical Mental Health Care quality mark [TOPGGz] and is HKZ-certified.

Equator Foundation provides psychiatric and psychosocial care to traumatized refugees and victims of human trafficking in the Nether-lands to promote their psychological recovery and social bonding.

The Psychotrauma Diagnosis Centre (PDC) investigates the psychological impact of traumatic events and advises about treatment possibilities. For specific target groups the PDC has set up separate outpatient units, such as the outpatient unit for police.

War Trauma Foundation (WTF) helps people and communities all over the world that have been affected by war and violence. Together with local organisations WTF develops and documents knowledge to deal with the psychosocial impact of war and violence. WTF trains care- givers and forms regional networks in conflict areas to help people work together towards psychosocial recovery.

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1944founded The 1940-1945 Foundation

1947founded Foundation Pelita

1980founded ICODO

2002founded Impact Foundation, national knowledge & advice centre for psycho-social care after disasters

1989foundedIVP

2005Collaboration Foundation Centrum ’45 – IVP serving chair psychotraumatology

2006foundedPDC

1973startFoundation Centrum ’45

1997founded War Trauma Foundation

2003startEquator Foundation

2005ICODO becomes Cogis Foundation

2007foundedArq Foundation

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