Scholar on trauma speaks Sunday at Temple Beth-El

Monroe — The Joint Yom HaShoah Committee of the Monroe Temple Beth-El and Congregation Eitz Chaim will be hosting Dr. Yael Danieli at 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 15, at the Temple Beth El, Monroe. The Israeli-born scholar is a specialist in the treatment of trauma victims and victims of mass disasters, with a special emphasis on the treatment of Holocaust victims. Danieli wrote her doctoral dissertation on Holocaust victims and their children. She was among the pioneer researchers of post-traumatic stress syndrome, which became recognized as a specific diagnosis in 1980. Danieli has a private practice; is a professor at New York University; has teaching positions at two medical schools; consults with the mayor of New York regarding 9/11; and is an adviser to the UN. She also is assisting the Rwandan government in the process of compensation and rehabilitating its victims of genocide; is working with psychologists, politicians, educators and media figures in Bosnia; and has been a representative to the World Federation for Mental Health. For more information on this free public event, call 783-2626 or 783-7424.