Venture Bound ; Working in Trauma Zones Reveals Common Threads

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By far the biggest opportunity I have had for getting to know people from different cultures has been my work with the International Center for Psychosocial Trauma. Under the leadership of child psychiatrist Ashad Husain, the center trains teachers, physicians and mental health workers to treat trauma victims. This means workers go into areas of the world where there has been armed strife or a natural disaster.

My first contact with this group was the summer of 1995, when 30 physicians and teachers came from Bosnia for a monthlong "Training the Trainer" program in Columbia. I got to know several members of the group, whom I was to meet again in 1996 when I made a trip with the team to Sarajevo.

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Venture Bound ; Working in Trauma Zones Reveals Common Threads

The team was housed with local families, suffered the cold and lack of electricity with them and heard their stories. Two other professionals and I stayed with Na...

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