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Introduction

Dr. Rami Sulimani, CEO Ashalim

The issue before us deals with questions associated with coping with

situations of Crisis, Loss and Bereavement. The reaction to such situations

and coping with them vary from one person to the next and is related

to one’s personality and environment of development. The articles in

this issue open a fascinating window to the strategies through which

individuals, families and organizations cope with their pain and regroup

in order to contain it or dwell on it and to come out of crisis reinforced.

Ashalim – is an organization that develops programs, services and

knowledge for children, youth, young adults and families in situations of

risk and distress, as well as for professionals working with them. Similar

to many other organizations, it is engaged in developing knowledge and

making it accessible in order to assist and alleviate, to the extent possible,

the difficult reality in which people happened to find themselves over the

course of their life.

Programs developed at Ashalim over the years in the field of coping with

crisis and trauma situations have received wide professional recognition

due to their results and impact both on the welfare system and on target

populations. Thus, for instance, the Hibuki (Huggsy) program, developed

following the Second Lebanon War and implemented in the educational

system, won international recognition when the government of Japan

decided to implement its professional principles following the devastating

earthquake of 2011. Similarly, the Hadrei Shalva (Serenity Rooms)

program, developed in 2002 to deal with continuous emergency and

trauma situations within educational frameworks in communities around

the Gaza Strip, in recent years won professional recognition when 25

local authorities picked it out of the wide array of programs presented

in the 360° Project Book – the national program for children and youth

at risk. These professional achievements were recently translated into

the development of an integrative model for resilience improvement and

treatment of distress and trauma casualties, in full cooperation with the