OBJECTIVES: To examine the effectiveness of critical time intervention (CTI)-an evidence-based intervention-for abused women transitioning from women's shelters to community living. METHODS: A randomized controlled trial was conducted in nine women's shelters across the Netherlands. 136 women were assigned …

Background: The number of medical technologies used in home settings has increased substantially over the last 10-15 years. In order to manage their use and to guarantee quality and safety, data on usage trends and practical experiences are important. This paper presents a literature review on types, …

The presentation focussed on demographic transition, unbalanced population decline and their influence on family, kin and other social support systems for the elderly in the North of the Netherlands.

Autobiographies of migrant women about their experiences with honour-based violence (HBV) reach many readers and are used in policy debates on women's emancipation and immigrant integration. Migrant women's central position in this nationalistic debate stigmatises them as passive victims, their husbands …

Intergenerational continuity in family behaviors partly results from socialization processes in the parental home. However, socialization is a multidimensional process. This article tests hypotheses about the relative importance of value transmission and modeling in explaining expectations of adolescence …

”Landscape as House” is about animating my families landscape through a new form of topographic living: a frag-mented house embedded into forests, meadows and the village. This house creates a life constituted of movement through landscape, on the scale of a farmers ground, with rooms inhabiting its …

In our time, professions are passed on form father to child less and less, and some professions related to craftsmanship are disappearing, being replaced by industrial production. I come from a family of wooden artisan, and I witness what happened to my grandfather when he could not work anymore: deprived …

Dit onderzoek is gericht op de onduidelijkheid die heerst over de afwegingen van de belangen die de rechter maakt bij een verzoek tot vervangende toestemming voor erkenning van een minderjarig kind. Het probleem van de opdrachtgever ligt voornamelijk bij de uitvoering van de afweging van de belangen. …

Dit onderzoek strekt zich tot omgangszaken zoals genoemd in artikel 1:377a BW juncto 8 EVRM. Dit artikel geeft het kind recht op omgang met ouders en degene die in een nauwe persoonlijke betrekking tot het kind staan. Middels deze artikelen kunnen deze partijen een omgangsregeling verzoeken bij de rechter. …

from the publishers' website: "A 63-year-old woman with diabetes type II and a history of breast cancer was treated with clozapine for her refractory schizophrenia. She developed a dilated cardiomyopathy with an ejection fraction of 25%, a life-threatening event. The cause of heart failure could be multifactorial, …