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Kids After Attack
NECHEMIA MEYERS
Special to the Jewish News
A
program designed to help
children in the Galilee cope
with the psychological stress
caused by terrorist bombard-
ments is now aiding boys and girls in a
half dozen other places to deal with the
consequences of violence.
The program was initially developed
in the 1980s by Dr. Mooli Lahad and
his team from the Community Stress
Prevention Center in Kiryat Shemona,
probably the most often-shelled town in
Israel. It is based on the assumption,
which has been sustained by years of
experience, that prior drills and discus-
sions significantly reduce the rate of psy-
chological distress when teachers and
pupils are forced to descend into air raid
shelters.
With the passage of time, the
CSPC also began to deal with prob-
lems outside the school system, such
as preparing broadcasters in local TV
and radio stations for keeping the
population well informed and reason-
ably calm when the city is under
attack. In addition, the organization
started teaching preparation and cop-
ing skills in regard to suicides, serious
accidents and violence.
Nowhere in this country is the situ-
ation more volatile than in the Gaza
Strip, where the residents of a dozen
Jewish settlements live in a predomi-
nantly hostile area. It was only natural,
therefore, that,they should turn for
assistance to Dr. Lahad, whose-pro-
grams have helped them cope with a
series of violent attacks over the past
decade.
Community leaders and staff in the
area, from the chairman of the region-
al council on down, were invited to a
two-day educational program under
the direction of Dr. Lahad. It contin
ued with refresher courses from time
to time.
The effectiveness of the prepara-
tion, and the inner strength of the
local population, was evident when
people there had to deal with the
aftermath of a nearly successful
attempt last year by a suicide bomber
to blow up a packed school bus.
"The first thing we did," recalls
Drora Gordon, director of social services
in the area, "was to send two social
workers to the bus. They were there,
talking to the children, within five ruin-