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Coping With Terror: Education and Trauma Recovery in Israel |
| Section: CULTURE / CROSSROADS |
| Author: Nechemia Meyers |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2000 |
| Size: 2,143 Words, 14,162 Characters |
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The center was established by Dr. Mooli Lahad nineteen years ago. Initially the CSPC concerned itself primarily with local schools. It found that advance preparation, including drills and discussions, significantly reduced the rate of psychological distress felt by teachers and pupils alike when rockets and shells started raining down on the town. Subsequently, Lahad says, "we turned our attention to the community as a whole."
The CSPC helped create an interdisciplinary support team that brought together all the city's psychosocial, educational, community, and medical services. "During an emergency," Lahad explains, "psychosocial teams are dispatched to affected areas to assess the situation and provide immediate support. They open information and relief centers, deal with evacuation a...
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...ilitation phase. This focuses on methods of recovery from the crisis together with the reintegration of all parties into the school system."
Lahad concludes by emphasizing that such a scheme can only help if principals admit there is a potential problem. Resolving these traumas depends on the closest possible cooperation between the administration, teachers, parents, and students.----N.M.
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