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… Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2010, 38, 437–458 First published online 21 May 2010 doi:10.1017/S1352465810000226 Reliability and Validity of the Short Schema Mode Inventory (SMI) Jill Lobbestael Maastricht University, the Netherlands Michiel van Vreeswijk Psychomedical Centre G-kracht, Delft, the Netherlands Philip … of Clinical Psychological Science, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, the Netherlands. E-mail: jill.lobbestael@maastrichtuniversity.nl © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2010 438 J. Lobbestael et al. comparing SFT with Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) on changes in borderline personality disorder criteria, quality of life, cost-effectiveness and drop-out demonstrated that SFT was superior to TFP (van Asselt et al., 2008; Giesen-Bloo et al., 2006). … were used to assess DSM-IV Axis I and II diagnoses. 440 J. Lobbestael et al. Interviewers were psychotherapists or master-level students of psychology with at least one year clinical experience. Interviewers were extensively trained in a 2-day workshop in SCID administration by the first author of this manuscript and performed at least 10 SCID interviews in training sessions before administering the SCID interviews for this study autonomously. One hundred and fifty-one interviews of this study …

… persoon („de betrokkene”); als identificeerbaar wordt beschouwd een natuurlijke persoon die direct of indirect kan worden geïdentificeerd, met name aan de hand van een identificator zoals een naam, een identificatienummer, locatiegegevens, een online identificator of van een of meer elementen die kenmerkend zijn voor de fysieke, fysiologische, genetische, psychische, economische, culturele of sociale identiteit van die natuurlijke persoon. Privacy by default: een gegevensverwerking waarbij …

… FHML Maastricht University and Maastricht University Medical Centre+ Introduction Scope and context of this review This assessment covers the research, the Research Master programme and the PhD training programme as carried out in, or in collaboration with and under responsibility of the Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), School for Cardiovascular Diseases. For several decades already, CARIM has a strong position in the international cardiovascular research and aspires to be one … of Pathology with a strong emphasis on molecular and imaging techniques. The research in Theme III (with 11 programmes) is now centred around microvascular dysfunction; athero-thrombosis; arterial stiffening; vascular smooth muscle cell plasticity; endothelial dysfunction; vascular calcification; advanced glycation, and inflammation. These processes are studied in the context of specific cardiovascular diseases that are major burdens to an ageing society (with chronic diseases), namely … institution, which seem to be no longer up-to-date and therefore require replacement in the very near future. On various occasions in the CARIM self evaluation 2007-2012 references are made to the construction of the VivariUM, a new animal facility, where laboratories and equipment are shared by multiple users. This should replace the present Central Animal Facilities (CPV), which cannot longer be improved to fulfil all current requirements of researchers and (Dutch and EU) legislation. At the …

… a society run by deadlines, the clock, modern technology and numerous other demands and pressures, stress is an unavoidable part of everyday life. When an individual encounters an event that is mentally evaluated or ‘appraised’ as a difficult to cope with threat to well-being (e.g. (Folkman and Folkman, 1984)), the body initiates a stress response (e.g.(McEwen, 2007)). A stress response will express itself in a physiological as well as cognitive-affective reaction (e.g.(Steptoe et al., 2007)). In … and Ellis, 2005, Steckler et al., 2005, Ursin and Olff, 1993)). As illustrated in Figure 1, maladaptive physiological and affective stress reactivity places individuals at a heightened risk for the development of a variety of stress-related disorders, whereas appropriate stress reactivity may act as a resilience factor preventing the development of stress-related psychopathology (e.g. (Feder et al., 2009)). Since maladaptive physiological and affective stress responses are involved in a wide range … influence of multivitamins and/or minerals (zinc, copper, magnesium) on aggressive behavior, to 4) the mental boosting effects of certain herbs and/or botanicals like Ginkgo biloba or St John’s–wort (Hypericum perforatum) on memory, intellectual capacity or depression. In particular the suggested positive effects of foods or nutritional supplements on brain and behaviour have been picked up by the food industry, and has led to the launching of a wide range of often expensive natural (extracted) …