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March 19, 2005
Israeli Training Helps Russian Terror Victims
Baltimore Jewish Times, 18 Mar 05 Psychologists working with the victims of last year's school massacre in Russia have spent a week of training in Israel. The program, which ended Sunday, featured training in such areas as trauma-debriefing techniques, relaxation methods and ways to include schools and communities in helping people overcome trauma. [...] The training is the brainchild of World ORT and is co-sponsored by it, along with the Russian Jewish Congress.
"Unfortunately, we have an extensive experience in dealing with such cases," said Avi Ganon, the Moscow-based director of World ORT in Russia, Belarus and Central Asia. "Sixty of our ORT school students in Israel died in terrorist attacks in the last four years," he told journalists on Monday at a news conference in Moscow. A leading Russian psychologist said that although Russia has skilled professionals who have worked in Beslan since the first day of the tragedy, the Israeli experience in dealing with the psychological aftermath of terrorist attacks could prove invaluable for the residents of Beslan, where more than 350 people died in the September 2004 massacre. http://www.jewishtimes.com/scripts/edition.pl?now=3/18/2005&SubSectionID=32&ID=4570
Posted by Emma at March 19, 2005 08:53 AM
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