Haruv Institute - Annual Report 2017

STUDY AND TRAINING PROGRAMS ׀ WELFARE AND MULTI-DISCIPLINARY FIELDS

TRAUMA-INFORMED INTERVENTION PROGRAMS

The Haruv Institute offers trauma-informed intervention training to welfare and mental health organizations treating children and families. The “trauma lens” places emphasis on principles and areas of knowledge such as: · How childhood trauma affects child development · Early childhood attachment and its relation to trauma · The impact of trauma on parenting · Professionals’ coping with children and parents who experienced trauma · Trauma-informed interventions (with a focus on protectiveness, talking directly about trauma, creating a trauma narrative, psycho-educational intervention, etc.) The aim of this training is to encourage professional workers to keep the child’s situation in mind when treating families that have experienced traumatic events, to involve the children in therapeutic interventions and to maintain a focus on the trauma when treating the entire family. Psychotherapy for pre-school aged children and parents, in a state of crisis and trauma In partnership with: The Tel Aviv-Jaffa Organization for Promoting Education (NGO) Goal: Provide the therapeutic staff of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Organization for Promoting Education (NGO) with working tools at their sessions with families and children who live in an ongoing state of trauma (families-on-the-brink), for evaluation and treatment. After training, the program’s graduates will be skilled in carrying out a dyadic therapeutic discourse when treating families-on-the-brink within the treatment framework in which they work. Target Population: The NGO’s therapeutic staff – social workers, psychologists, therapists.

Number of Sessions: 15

Participants: 30

Location: Jaffa

Budget: NIS 25,000

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