Teaching Recovery Techniques in Oslo
William Yule and Atle Dyregrov will hold a two-day workshop during the preconference of the European Congress of Psychology 6th and 7th of July. Read more »
Presenting the manuals
The foundation will run a workshop during the European Congress of Psychology as part of the pre-conference program. Atle Dyregrov and William Yule will train a group of professionals on using the manuals which have been developed under the Foundation’s auspices. Read more »
Children in armed conflicts
EU Guidelines on children and armed conflict estimate that during the past ten years, armed conflicts have killed over two million children and physically maimed an additional six million. Read more »
Children under fire
Two films, Children under Fire and Buddha Collapsed out of Shame, portray how children are affected by wars in respectively Bosnia and Afghanistan.
Two of our Board members, child psychologists Magne Raundalen and Atle Dyregrov, talked to child refugees from Bosnia. They tried to help the children deal with the atrocities they had experienced. Read more »
Second Iranian-based project gets support
Photo by Flickr-user Dottormabuse. A mosque in Qhom.
A second Iranian-based project receives funding from the Foundation. The study focuses on the intervention for traumatic grief in children and adolescents who have lost one or both parents during the recent war in Afghanistan.
Developing a new manual for grieving children
Funds raised during the PsychAid charity fundraising will be used to develop a new manual for children in grief.
Norwegian psychology students raised a total of 176.390,- Norwegian kroner in March. Read more »
Helping children in Sichuan
On May 12 it was the anniversary for the 2008 Sichuan earthquake which killed at least 80,000 people. The authorities have now released an official toll of the dead or missing schoolchildren: 5,335 is the number, according to the BBC.
In the same period, the foundation has trained around 170 intervenors, enabling them to help the children affected by the earthquake. Read more »
Find us on Facebook
Children and War foundation is now registered on the social networking site Facebook. You can show your support and provide feedback on our profile.
Iraqi health service is unprepared
There are only two child psychiatrists in Iraq, leaving the health care system unprepared for treating the many children who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from the war. Read more »
An Iranian-based project gets support
The foundation has decided to financially support a project lead by Hamid T. Neshat Doost on the Effects of specific recall training on the improvement of mood and autobiographical memory in Afghanian war-affected bereaved children and adolescents. Read more »
