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#611 – Charles Tauber MD on Training Volunteers to Deal with The Traumas of War


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Charles David Tauber MD grew up in a family of immigrants in New York City. He has worked in movements for social change since 1966, starting with the environmental and peace movements. He studied chemistry and physics at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he also was active with the first actions of Greenpeace and with non-violent civil disobedience actions in the 1970s. He then studied medicine in Groningen, The Netherlands. After obtaining his medical qualification, he began to work with asylum seekers and refugees with the joint Amnesty International-International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Medical Examination Group and other local and regional groups in their support of asylum seekers and refugees’ efforts to obtain asylum. Also, he and other physicians were treating asylum seekers where other doctors weren’t willing to. They also were educating and psychologically supervising volunteers and staff members of other organizations working with asylum seekers. When the wars in the former Yugoslavia broke out in the early 1990s, a number of the members of those groups formed a working group, from which the Coalition for Work with Psychotrauma and Peace, the CWWPP, was born. Tauber has worked in the former Yugoslavia as head of the CWWPP since June 1995. The aim of the CWWPP is to increase capacity at the grassroots level to work with psychological trauma and its physical consequences. The organization works with war victims and “people on the move”, otherwise known as migrants. The CWWPP uses a highly participatory method known as Pragmatic Empowerment Training, or PET, to assist people without previous education to assist one another. PET groups are given onsite and online without charge to the participants. Today’s episode is brought to you by Calm: The #1 App for Meditation, Sleep and relaxation. For a limited time, Shrink Rap Radio listeners can get 25% off a Calm Premium subscription at CALM.COM/SHRINK. It includes unlimited access to ALL of Calm’s amazing content. Get started today at CALM.COM/SHRINK. Get A 10% discount on all my courses below through the Zur Institute using the discount code: DRDAVE88 Check out the following Psychology CE Courses based on listening to Shrink Rap Radio interviews, offered through Zur Institute: Jungian Psychotherapy Part 1 (6 CEUs) Jungian Psychotherapy Part 2 (7 CEUs) Jungian Psychotherapy Part 3 (7 CEUs) Jungian Psychotherapy Part 4 (6 CEUs) Jungian Psychotherapy Part 5 (7 CEUs) Jungian Psychotherapy Package of the Five Above (33 CEUs) Wisdom of The Dream (4 CEUs) Positive Psychology (6 CEUs) Pros and Cons of Positive Psychology (5 CEUs) The Fundamentals of Positive Psychology (7 CEUs) CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (39 CEUs) Body-Mind: Goodbye to Dualism (6 CEUs) Brain: Insights from Neuroscience (8 CEUs)
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