HAP-Europe: The European umbrella organization for non-profit projects teaching trauma therapy

EMDR-Humanitarian Assistance Programs Europe (HAP-Europe) an umbrella organization for all European national non-profit organizations and individual projects teaching trauma therapy including EMDR in a large number of European, Asian and African countries. It is a sister organization of EMDR – HAP in US and the information platform to exchange information and knowledge of current and ongoing trainings on a non commercial basis. We try to build up a global network of clinical psychologist, psychotherapists and psychiatrist who travel to places where is a need to teach trauma therapy and to prevent the after-effects of trauma and violence like the tsunami regions and earthquake areas. Till now a lot of HAP volunteers bring a powerful mental health resource to regions overwhelmed by the stress of natural disaster or local conflict areas. This presentation will give examples from all around the world of how HAP projects shift the focus from disaster response to mental health resource development.

Conference

English

Helga Matthess
Sushma Mehrotra

Matthess, H., & Mehrotra, S. (2008, June). HAP-Europe: The European umbrella organization for non-profit projects teaching trauma therapy. Keynote presented at the 9th EMDR International Association Conference, London, England