COMMUNITY STRESS PREVENTION Volume 6 EDITORS OFRA AYALON - MOOLI LAHAD - ALAN COHEN © 2007, All rights reserved The Community Stress Prevention Centre Tel Hai Academic College, POB 797, Kiryat Shmona, Israel Printed in Israel ISBN – Professional Competence, Self-perception, and Psychosomatic Phenomena The Community Stress Prevention Centre, was founded in 1981 in Kiryat Shmona with the aim of helping providing a response to security problems facing the inhabitants living along Israel's northern border. Since then the CSPC has trained individuals, groups, organizations and communities in Israel and around the world to cope with emergency and disaster. This work has led to the development of models, methods and tools for preparation intervention and prevention. The world renowned model from the CSPC is our integrative model of resiliency, BASIC Ph. Most articles from the previous five volumes of Community Stress Prevention are available at our web site: www.icspc.org 2 COMMUNITY STRESS PREVENTION 6 Content About the authors Introductions: Prof. Mooli Lahad Baruch Sugarman Chapter 1 The Relationship between Professional Competence, Self- perception, and Psychosomatic Phenomena among General Hospital Staff to Emergencies and Disasters Moshe Farchi, Mooli Lahad and Alan Cohen Chapter 2 Beyond Words:Trauma-Healing Experience & Methods in the wake of the Tsunami Disaster Ofra Ayalon Chapter 3 From Improvisation to Accepted Practice: Communities Cope with Terrorism by Preparation, Intervention and Rehabilitation Mooli Lahad and Uri Ben Nesher Chapter 4 The Right to Intervene: Ethical Questions Regarding the Disengagement Mooli Lahad Chapter 5 Parenting under Stress Parents Develop their Children's Resiliency Mooli Lahad and Nira Kaplansky Chapter 6 Community Outreach, Action And Ritual Elizabeth Capewell Chapter 7 Book summary - Burning Flowers - Burning Dreams Consequences of Suicide Bombings on Israeli Civilians, 2000- 2005 Marie Therese Feuerstein 3 Professional Competence, Self-perception, and Psychosomatic Phenomena Authors Ofra Ayalon Ph.D. Dr. Ofra Ayalon is Director of NORD COPE Centre in Kiryat Tivon, Israel, psychologist, family therapist and traumatologist, author and trainer throughout the world in the field of trauma and coping with terrorism. She was a senior lecturer for 35 years at the University of Haifa, and is senior consultant at the Community Stress Prevention Center in Kiryat Shmona - Tel Hai College, Israel. She has conducted extensive, longitudinal research on the impact of domestic violence, trauma, stress, major disasters, war terrorism, and bereavement on children and their families. In the wake of 9/11 attacks on America she has widely consulted on dealing with trauma in organizations, schools and clinics in USA. She has published extensively on the impact of domestic violence, trauma, stress, major disasters, war, terrorism, and bereavement on children. She devised a comprehensive method for crisis intervention programmes widely used to enhance coping skills for survivors and rescue workers during and after major disasters. [email protected] Uri Ben Nesher Ph.D. Dr. Ben Nesher is the former Chair of the Behavioral Sciences Department of Management at Western Galilee College. He has a B.Sc. in chemical engineering and an M.Sc. in behavioral sciences from the Technion, Israel, and a Ph.D. in Emergency and Disaster Management from Newport University, USA. He is presently a colonel (reserves) in the IDF where he established and developed the innovative Public Behavior Field Officers (PBO) division in the Israel Home Front Command. His extensive experience in emergency management includes the preparation of disaster and emergency plans for over 20 municipalities in Israel, including high-risk areas on border regions for both conventional and non- conventional emergencies. In this capacity he has developed various integrative models for emergency managers including CERT - (Community Emergency Response Teams) that have been adopted extensively and CEQM – (Corporation Emergency Quality Management) that prepares for emergencies in the Business Continuity on a measurable evaluation basis. He is also a consultant to both public institutions (educational, municipal, welfare services) and private organizations in need of an integrative approach to emergency management and has published widely in local professional journals in the areas of Community Emergency Management. 4 COMMUNITY STRESS PREVENTION 6 Elizabeth Capewell Ph.D. Dr. Elizabeth Capewell is the director of an independent Centre for Crisis Management and Education (CCME) founded in 1990 She has been an ardent advocate and practitioner of community outreach and responses to major disaster since her sudden involvement as an Education Officer in the aftermath of the first mass shooting in the UK in Hungerford. Soon after, she was asked to assist with the Hillsborough and Lockerbie disasters where she began to formulate principles and practices which have since been developed and refined through her work in many other major incidents in the UK and abroad, for example the Dunblane shootings, the London Docklands and Omagh bombs and the Bahrain air crash. Scholarships also enabled research of good practice in Australasia, the USA and Israel and responding to many smaller-scale school and work-based traumatic incidents have added to her learning. Her thinking has always been in line with the values and style of CSPC, whose support and interest have been an important encouragement to her. Her doctoral thesis at the University of Bath explored the use of Action Research in developing collaborative Crisis Management and how the experience of practitioners engaged in disaster response can be validated and valued. [email protected] Alan Cohen M.Sc. Alan Cohen has been research coordinator at the CSPC since 1985. Administrative director of the Mikud trauma treatment clinic at the CSPC immediately following the 2nd Lebanon War. His special interests are in stress and trauma treatment and biofeedback. He is an EMDRIA institute facilitator. Together with Prof. Lahad and Dr. Ayalon he is a co-editor of the Community Stress Prevention Series (1-6) and author of a number of articles on stress treatment. [email protected] Moshe Farchi, Ph.D. Dr. Farchi studied for his Ph.D. at Bar Ilan University School of Social Work. Prior to that he completed his masters degree in Public Health and community medicine at the faculty of medicine of the Hebrew University . Dr. Farchi's expertise is in trauma and post trauma interventions with a special emphasis on initial intervention. Dr. Farchi lectures at the School of Social Work at Tel Hai Academic College and is the head of the stress and trauma studies program. His residence is at a small kibbutz high on the Golan Heights named Kibbutz Ortal. He is married with three children 5 Professional Competence, Self-perception, and Psychosomatic Phenomena Marie Therese Feuerstein Ph.D. Dr Marie Therese Feuerstein is a British-born Independent Consultant in International Health who has worked since 1965 in 31 countries, mainly developing, and mostly for United Nations agencies such as the World Health Organization, in technical areas including health system strengthening, primary health care, safer motherhood, poverty and health, and HIV/AIDS. This included work in countries experiencing symptoms of chronic or actual conflict, such as Viet Nam, Lesotho, Laos, Papua New Guinea. From 2001 she coordinated an Israeli voluntary coalition focused on effects of suicide bombings on civilians, and continues to be involved in humanitarian relief and civilian solidarity activities as part of post-traumatic stress initiatives. Nira Kaplansky Ph.D. Nira Kaplansky is Clinical Director of the Mikud clinic for the treatment of posttrauma and national "Parenting in six Channels " Project For Parenting Care Under Stress." Her B.A is in social work from the Hebrew University .M.A .in Dramatherapy from Surrey University, London .She has recently completed her doctorate on posttrauma, dissociation and imagination. Nira specialised in domestic violence and was director of a large abuse prevention program for young families and toddlers for 5 years. She also directed the Early Childhood Department in the Mevo'ot Hahermon regional authority. Her special community projects include street performances and training of creative instructors, living sculptures, playback theatre and puppeteering. Mooli Lahad Ph.D. Prof. Lahad is a senior medical psychologist, specialist in educational psychology, bibliotherapy and dramatherapy and psychotrauma . Founder of the CSPC in 1981 and current CSPC president. He is a world-renowned expert in intervention and treatment of trauma and emergencies with children, adults, communities and organisations. Winner of the Israel Psychological Association Elena Bonner Prize for outstanding field work in preparation for stress and emergencies. Director of the educational psychology services of Kiryat Shmona between 1984-88. Head of the Haifa University bibliotherapy course 1986-89. Prof. Lahad is current professor of psychology at Tel Hai College and studies director of the PhD program of Roehampton University UK, Israel's representative on the NATO sub-committee on civic resiliency. He is the author and co-author of 26 books and many articles on coping with stress and crisis. [email protected] 6 COMMUNITY STRESS PREVENTION 6 Introduction Letter from the editor Thoughts about the year following the Lebanon war Dear colleagues, Let me