Live Webinar January 15th — Challenges and Opportunities in Disseminating Evidence-based Treatments in the Face of Mass Trauma: Israel as a Case Example with Dr. Jonathan Huppert

During mass trauma such as the events of October 7th in Israel, there are many critical issues to consider regarding how to organize and respond to mental health issues. Some key questions that arise include: What are the various cultural and language factors that are likely to impact treatment and recovery? How exposed were the clinicians to the trauma? Given the estimates of thousands of individuals to likely suffer from PTSD, anxiety, and depression, how does one choose what treatments to train clinicians in? What are the commonalities and differences in the different approaches? Given the existing knowledge of Prolonged Exposure and EMDR in Israel, we worked on training therapists in Cognitive Processing Therapy and Written Exposure Therapy in the first major roll outs, and then added trainings in the Unified Protocol and Interpersonal Psychotherapy more recently. We will present how we developed expedited training models to try to quickly provide response while maintaining quality, and challenges that we faced along the way.