Article archive / October 1, 2016
Originally published: . Volume 7, No. 10. Source pages: 18.
A series of workshops for those adults, teens, and youngsters affected by the flood, will be offered on November 5, 12, and 19, for adults, and on December 3, 10, and 17 for teens and children.
Organizers Dr. Darlyne Nemeth and Dr. Charles Burchell are developing the Emotional Resiliency Workshops to help flood victims develop ways for positive coping. The workshops are hosted by the Louisiana Psychological Association.
Resiliency is a term that includes multiple aspects of positive coping, such as response flexibility, communication, humor, problem-solving, help-seeking, and creative-thinking, and others.
Psychologists helping to develop the workshops include Drs. Lucinda DeGrange, Andrew Yarborough, ValaRay Irvin, Thomandra Sam, Fernando Pastrana, and Mr. Stedwin Coleman, said organizer Dr. Charles Burchell.
Dr. Nemeth has been nationally and internationally recognized for her Hurricane Anniversary Wellness Workshops. She has a background in community psychology, and involves government, religious, and professional organizations, and uses a wellness model of group intervention.
She and her staff offered workshops that helped prepare participants for the emotional reactions at the anniversary dates for Katrina. Post- workshop data has indicated reduced anxiety, improved coping and evidence of reattachment, as reported in APA Division 49 news.
Nemeth was invited by Peking University, the Chinese Psychological Society, and the Chinese Association for Mental Health to present a workshop at the ‘08 World Congress for Psychotherapy in Beijing, China, where she trained psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers in anniversary reaction interventions and provided a training workshop for up to 3,000 of these mental health professionals. She has served as the World Council for Psychotherapy (WCP) delegate to the United Nations, and worked on the development of a worldwide Disaster/Trauma Relief professional certification process.
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