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 »
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.
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“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 »
The reference lists have recently been updated and uploaded.
The child version of the Post-traumatic Cognitions inventory is now available in Dutch. In addition, an instrument to assess traumatic events, Childhood War Trauma Questionnaire (CWTQ) is also available for download.
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The Foundation is conducting a training in “Teaching Recovery Techniques” for children and adolescents in Kenya in November. Read more »
The Foundation is delighted to announce that Ed Cairns, Professor of Psychology at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, has accepted an invitation to become a member of the Foundation’s advisory group. Read more »
We have added guidelines on how to apply for a grant. The Foundation supports several projects each year, and usually supports two to three small projects and one large one. Read more »
A formal evaluation of the Writing for Recovery manual will be conducted this year in one of the worst conflict affected areas inside Iraq. Several locations have been identified.
The work will take forward earlier findings from field tests in the Middle East that suggest the manual’s structured and expressive writing exercises, which help writers to focus on specific traumatic events, can lead to PTSD-symptom reduction. Read more »
Measures made available on the children and War web-site have been found invaluable in a recently published study of over 1,000 Afghani adolescents. Read more »
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