April 2005
Trauma and Forgiveness
A Dart Centre discussion about “Trauma and Forgiveness”, held in London on April 26, 2005, and facilitated by Robin Shohet and Ben Fuchs from the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland ...
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March 2005
New UK PTSD-Treatment Guidelines
A Frontline Club discussion of Britain's new guidelines for the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The guidelines, issued by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), are the most comprehensive guidelines to date on effective treatments for PSTD ...
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February 2005
Covering the Tsunami
A Frontline Club discussion. A group of journalists, mental health professionals and aid workers recall their experiences in Southeast Asia in the aftermath of the December 2004 tsunami ...
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February 2005
Women Reporting War
Women who report war gathered in London to discuss their safety concerns at a forum arranged by the International News Safety Institute and the Dart Centre. The session, which drew about 40 women conflict reporters and other interested parties to the journalists’ Frontline Club, was a follow-up to INSI’s first-ever international safety survey on Women Reporting War ...
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January 2005
Germany and Post-War Trauma
A Frontline Club discussion on how Germans have dealt psychologically with their country’s complex history. The event was co-sponsored by the Dart Center and the German Embassy and opened with the showing of Thomas Reimer’s film "Meine Schlachtfelder" ("My Battlefields"), first broadcast in Germany in November 2002 ...
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October 2004
Images of Violence and Trauma
Newsrooms are well-used to handling images of trauma and violence from conflicts around the world, but only recently have journalists and news managers begun to consider the emotional and psychological effects of repeatedly viewing such images. The Dart Centre held a Frontline Club discussion with several top journalists and managers ...
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September 2004
News, Violence and Trauma: The Experience of Partners and Families
How should news people, their partners and their employers best handle the stresses and tensions of family and relationship that come with the separation of reporting on conflict, tragedy and war? What do organisations need to know? How best can freelancers be supported? The Dart Centre, together with the relationship-research organisation One Plus One and the Freelancers’ support charity The Rory Peck Trust, held a Frontline Club discussion about what needs to be done ...
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September 2004
Reporting Iraq: The psychological dimensions of the conflict
A discussion on "Reporting Iraq" at the Frontline Club in London. The wide-ranging conversation, sponsored by the Dart Centre and the International News Safety Institute (INSI), included Simon Wessely of the Institute of Psychiatry and group analyst Gabrielle Rifkind ...
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July 2004
Northern Ireland: The Legacy of Trauma
A Dart Centre Frontline Club discussion of the psychological impact of the decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland, featuring: Oscar Daly, psychiatrist and Board Member of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS), BBC reporter Mervyn Jess, and consultant psychiatrist, Alliance Party leader, and former speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly (1998-2003) Lord John Alderdice ...
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July 2004
Trauma & News: The Organisational Response
A Dart Centre workshop on the organisational response to trauma in the media brought together some 30 senior managers, journalists and editors from organisations including NBC, the French news agency AFP, the Sunday Times and the BBC. They were joined by representatives of the hostile environment training providers Pilgrims and Objective Team, together with several therapists, trauma specialists and providers of confidential counselling and trauma training in Britain ...
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April 2004
Deepening Dialogue at Zagreb Trauma Conference
Brought together by the Dart Centre and the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, a Zagreb workshop of regional journalists and psychotherapists, psychiatrists and psychologists from Croatia and across Europe looked at how professional trauma expertise can be better brought to public attention ...
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March 2004
Journalism, Trauma & Spirituality
The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) now has a Special Interest Group for those interested in the link between trauma and spirituality. But journalists? In the news business, scepticism shading into cynicism is in effect part of the job description. So it was with not a little trepidation that the Dart Centre brought 18 mainly British and American journalists together for a day-long exploration of “Journalism, Trauma and Spirituality” at the Frontline Club in London ...
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February 2004
The Soham Murders
One of the most emotive and distressing recent murder cases in Britain — the killing of two schoolgirls in August 2002 in the Eastern English town of Soham — was the focus of a Dart Centre discussion at the Frontline Club in London, which heard how difficult it had been at times for journalists as well as the local community ...
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January 2004
Reporting in a Culture of Violence
A Dart Centre-hosted a discussion on trauma and violence in Southern Africa, with guest speaker Sherbanu Sacoor and others from the region ...
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November 2003
Dart Center & Frontline Club Look to Support Journalists
London’s new Frontline Club for journalists involved in the reporting of war, trauma and disaster, formally opened its doors in November 2003 with a powerful discussion organised and sponsored by the Dart Centre on the role of trauma in journalism ...
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May 2003
Berlin Trauma Conference
A Dart Centre-hosted day of discussions on “Journalism and Trauma” on May 21, 2003, at the Berlin Conference of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS). ...
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March 2003
Trauma & Journalism in War
War and violent confict are the stuff of journalism. What do journalists and their teams and managers need to know about trauma and post-traumatic stress? What are the implications for our journalism and the stories we cover? The Dart Centre held a seminar in London featuring Dr. Frank Ochberg (the center's co-founder) with reports from several of Britain's major news agencies and broadcasters on what they are doing to support their teams. The seminar also heard from journalists and producers who have themselves experienced post-traumatic stress disorder, and how they have worked through it
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