CAW in Bangkok
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William Yule and Atle Dyregrov are two of the keynote speakers at an open forum, Psychosocial Response to Disasters, with international experts in the psychosocial field in Bangkok later this month. Read more »
Gaza-intervention completed
Our Gaza-based project, Evaluation of Writing for Recovery, reports that it has established a research group in Gaza, selected six schools and conducted random sampling. Read more »
Graca Machel: Challenges ahead
The Graca Machel Report 2009, which aims to inspire to action to improve the lives of children in conflict, concludes that there are challenges ahead. It says that more than one billion children under the age of 18 were living in areas in conflict or emerging from war. Read more »
Great activity in Malaysia
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Two previous workshop attendants, Indranee Liew and Dr Lai Fong Hwa, have informed us that they have trained at least 89 trainers in 2008 and 2009 in the Penang peninsula in Malaysia. Read more »
Many Kenyan children struggle
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“Many children are still struggling from the consequences of the violence from Kenyan elections last year,” our team reports after conducting a training in Nairobi recently. Read more »
Finnish Medical Society recommends CRIES
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The Finnish Medical Society Duodecim has recommended the Children’s Impact of Event Scale (CRIES), as one of the society’s main screening instruments on Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) treatments. Read more »
Progress on Gaza-project
Evaluation of Writing for Recovery was scheduled to start earlier this year, but Israeli bombardments damaged the schools included in the project, and delayed the project. Psychology graduate students, Ida Lange-Nielsen and Silje Kolltveit, who have developed the project, have now applied for visas, and interventions are scheduled to start November and December 2009. Read more »
Training core trainers
Two trainings have been conducted in the “Teaching Recovery Techniques” manual in both Bergen and London this week. Invited members have received training so they can become part of a group of core trainers who can assist in conducting trainings in other parts of the world, when needed.
250,000 child soldiers
Credit: Pierre Holtz, UNICEF CAR
“Ferocious conflicts in Gaza, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq and Afghanistan have led to high casualty rates and the displacement of a large number of people, especially children,” Radhika Coomaraswamy, United Nations special representative for children and armed conflict, has said. Read more »
Updated reference lists
The reference lists have recently been updated and uploaded.
