Mental Health Interventions: Pre and Post Disaster
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Session Description
The World Health Organization estimates approximately 260 million people are suffering from post-traumatic stress injuries. Globally, mental health services are often inadequate or nonexistent. Innovative mental health interventions are needed to reduce suffering in both children and adults that take into consideration communal-based cultures and ones that are not psychologically oriented. What are the interventions that can be: adapted to different cultures? applied to individuals across the lifespan? offered in group settings for communities? What are recommendations that you would like to bring to this discussion?
Time & Location
Time:
11:45 - 13:00, Wednesday, April 15, 2015
BST
Location:
SBS, Seminar 9
Speakers
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Delegate
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Trauma Resource Institute
Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW is an author, radio show host, social worker, trauma therapist, co-founder, former Executive Director and current Director of Innovation of the Trauma Resource Institute and key developer of the Community and Trauma Resiliency Models.
She is the author of Building Resiliency to Trauma, the Trauma and Community Resiliency Models® (2015). She is committed to bringing accessible and affordable interventions based on neuroscience and the biology of the human nervous system to our world's community. Her models have been introduced to over 102 countries.
Her radio talk show launched on VoiceAmerica in January 2021 and is entitled Resiliency Within, Building Resiliency during unprecedented times. Her guests are inspiring global leaders promoting healing and resiliency from a variety of backgrounds.
https://www.voiceamerica.com/show/3997/resiliency-within
She is a recognized international speaker and has presented at the Skoll World Forum at Oxford University, Resiliency 2021 and the United Nations. Elaine’s book was selected by the United Nations and Taylor and Francis’ curated on-line library as one of the innovations helping meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/sdgo
She is a founding member of the International Transformational Resilience Coalition, an organization focused on healing the human trauma connected to climate change. http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/intl-tr-coalition
Elaine is dedicated to the world's children and she has worked with collaborators to develop interventions for children, parents and teachers to help reduce the impact of trauma. She is a Senior Consultant to Emory University’s SEE Learning program, inspired and launched by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 2019, building compassionate and ethical curriculum to the world's children K-12. www.seelearning.emory.edu
