Social work students from Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work are in Israel this week to attend an intensive course on trauma, emergency response and recovery.
The group of 11 students are participating in the seminar on Trauma and Interpersonal Violence being held in collaboration with Israel’s Tel Hai College.
The program features workshops on trauma intervention, meetings with social workers and other mental health professionals at an IDF military base, site visits to Israeli agencies providing advanced trauma care, and a real-time emergency response simulation exercise with military and civil defense personnel.
Wurzweiler faculty members Dr. Rozetta Schaeffer and Dr. Lynn Levy joined Dr. Saul Adron, head of the program, in presenting lectures and conducting group activities for the students.
