Childhood Trauma Across Generations: From the Kindertransport to Oct 7 NCJWA Women's Voices Webinar скачать в хорошем качестве

Childhood Trauma Across Generations: From the Kindertransport to Oct 7 NCJWA Women's Voices Webinar

The International Day of Children's Rights is celebrated annually on November 20, and the international day to commemorate the Kindertransport is December 1. To mark both of these, NCJWA is hosting two expert women in conversation about the deeply traumatic experiences of Jewish children in both the 20th and the 21st centuries. Prof. Ruth Pat-Horenczyk is a clinical psychologist and Full Professor at the School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on risk and protective factors for childhood post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), relational trauma, resilience, and posttraumatic growth. She co-edited the books Treating Traumatized Children: Risk, Resilience and Recovery (2009) and Helping Children Cope with Trauma: Individual, Family and Community Perspectives (2014). Her current projects include predicting resilience in women with breast cancer, investigating the psychological responses and needs of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic, and studying the impact of the October 7th attacks and subsequent war on Israeli civilians. Janet Merkur is chair of the Australian chapter of the Kindertransport Association and Executive member of its Forward Planning Committee. She is the child of Holocaust survivors - her father survived Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen and Dachau and her mother was aged 14 when she boarded the first Kindertransport out of Vienna, on December 10, 1938 - the date of our webinar. Three of her family members were saved because they boarded a train for England as part of the Scheme. Janet is committed to supporting efforts to keep children safe who are caught up in War. She is past Co-President of NCJWA NSW and past Vice President of NCJWA National. As a History and English teacher, Janet worked in many disadvantaged schools, where resources for immigrants and dyslexic students were rare, so she wrote her own textbooks. Over twenty works of historical nonfiction and biographies have been published by the MacMillan Company of Australia and Cambridge University Press. Ruth will discuss the dimensions of childhood trauma with Janet, within the context of the standards and political and social societies so vastly apart in time.