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DISASTER COPING RESOURCES TEAM

The Disaster Coping Resources Team is composed of international scholars and practitioners committed to finding ways of helping children, families and schools cope with the emotional stress of major disasters.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Nyna Amin, Department of Education Studies, University of   

KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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Dr. Huda Ayyash-Abdo, Department of Psychology and Education,

Lebanese American University, Chouran-Beirut, Lebanon

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Dr. Sibnath Deb, Department of Applied Psychology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

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Dr. Daniela Dominguez, Counseling Psychology Department,

University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

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Dr. Brian Gerrard, Institute for School-Based Family Counseling,

Stuart, Florida, USA

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Dr. Emily Hernandez, Division of Special Education and Counseling,

California State University, Los Angeles, California, USA

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Dr. Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga, Counseling Psychology Department,

University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

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Dr. Yasemin Özkan, Department of Social Work, Hacettepe University,

Ankara, Türkiye

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Ms. Stéphanie Richard, Mental Health Coordinator, Hope Foundation for Women and Children of Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

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Dr. Sue Linville Shaffer, Marital and Family Therapist, Menlo Park, California, USA

THE TEAM

Current Projects

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This family support project is being carried out by Dr. Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga and Dr. Daniela Dominguez in the Department of Counseling Psychology at the University of San Francisco. The project involves traveling to McAllen, Texas to bring support and resources to migrant families that are being held there by immigration authorities.

Ignatian Banners of Hope and Support

for Recently Detained Immigrant Families

by

Daniela Dominguez, PhD

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Disastershock:

How to Cope with the

Emotional Stress of a Major Disaster 

©2024 by Institute for  School-Based Family Counseling.

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