Surviving war and it’s consequences

Our guest speaker, Anna Herbert, is a senior lecturer and researcher in the department of psychology at Linné University in Småland. Her PhD work focused on PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) which she pursued after completing an internship with the Red Cross during the Balkan crisis. Anna helped to educate junior nurses as they were on the front line, meeting and treating refugees. However, she eventually realized that many refugees spent most of their time in the classrooms, with the queue for treatment at the Red Cross or at hospital was over a year-long at the time and this informed her eventual PhD work. Back from London (where she was at Brunel University in Uxbridge) Anna got a job at Linné universitetet (called Kalmar Högskola at the time) and educated teachers and senior nurses. More recently she has followed schools that implement TMO (trauma medveten omsorg) in their organisations. 

Anna’s talk is very timely considering the current crisis in Ukraine and will address three topics:

a)       Trauma, crisis and war - the four phases of flight

b)       The brain's response to stress, crisis and trauma.

c)        The healing process - what can we do?