{"id":5517,"date":"2013-02-21T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=5517"},"modified":"2013-02-21T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T19:09:08","slug":"tulane-experts-studying-trauma-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/tulane-experts-studying-trauma-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulane experts studying trauma in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By BARRI BRONSTON, Courtesy Tulane University Publications<\/p>\n<p>Israel is nearly 7,000 miles from Tulane University, but Ron Marks, dean of the\u00a0School of Social Work, could think of no better place to study trauma than a land that lives with traumatic events, or at least the threat of them, 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5518\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Tel-Aviv-bus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5518\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5518 lazyload\" title=\".Trauma in Tel Aviv\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Tel-Aviv-bus-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Tel-Aviv-bus-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Tel-Aviv-bus-1024x689.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/202;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5518\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5518\" title=\".Trauma in Tel Aviv\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Tel-Aviv-bus-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Tel-Aviv-bus-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Tel-Aviv-bus-1024x689.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The recent bus attack in Tel Aviv is an example of trauma experienced by citizens. (JTA\/Flash90)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>So Marks and\u00a0Charles Figley, director of the Tulane Traumatology Institute, traveled to Tel Aviv recently to launch an exhaustive study on how Israelis cope with traumatic stress.<\/p>\n<p>Working with professional videographers, they interviewed seven of Israel\u2019s foremost trauma and resilience experts. Based on their findings, they plan to hold a summit on trauma in New Orleans and Israel, produce a special issue of the\u00a0<em>Journal of Traumatology<\/em>\u00a0and make a documentary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt provided us with an opportunity for total immersion into this world of experts,\u201d\u00a0Marks\u00a0says. \u201cWith the constant threat of terrorism and chronic warfare, we wanted to find out what they have discovered in terms of trauma and resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One such discovery was the need for high-quality and easily accessible mental health services.\u00a0\u201cThe trauma and stress was so widespread (in the 1990s) that national policy needed to be changed so that community centers could be established to deal with this,\u201d Marks says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5519\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/4.-Tel-Aviv-stairway.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5519\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5519 lazyload\" title=\"Huddling in hallway\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/4.-Tel-Aviv-stairway-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/4.-Tel-Aviv-stairway-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/4.-Tel-Aviv-stairway.jpg 724w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5519\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5519\" title=\"Huddling in hallway\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/4.-Tel-Aviv-stairway-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/4.-Tel-Aviv-stairway-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/4.-Tel-Aviv-stairway.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli citizens take shelter in the stairway of their apartment building as a warning siren sounds a signal that a rocket attack is coming. (Photo by Yehoshua Yosef\/FLASH90)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Among the experts they interviewed was Zahava Solomon, a social work professor at the University of Tel Aviv who has studied war-induced stress since the Lebanon War in 1982. They also met with Dr. Avi Bleich, an expert in military psychology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sense of the motivation to talk with us was high because they knew we got it, and they know that the world can benefit from their knowledge,\u201d Figley says.<\/p>\n<p>Marks agrees. \u201cThere are lessons to be learned about Israel and the nature of this place, and these people that enable them to survive and prosper.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Tulane%20experts%20studying%20trauma%20in%20Israel\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8781,8790,8795,8788,412,140,2062,8841],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5521,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517\/revisions\/5521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}