Gender
Perspectives and Mental Health
Co-Convener: Ricki Kantrowitz – Tel: 413-586-3970; E-mail: [email protected]
Co-Convener: Karen Siegel – Tel: 516-487-9834; E-mail: [email protected]
Human
Rights
Co-Convener: Celia Brown – Tel: 718-881-0770; E-mail Address: [email protected]
Co-Convener: Nancy Wallace – Tel: 212-249-6297; E-Mail: [email protected]
Lifespan
and Mental Health – Children/Families/Ageing
Co-Convener: Dick Donahue – Tel: 914-669-5209; E-mail: [email protected]
Co-Convener: Harold Cook – Tel: 212-734-0815; E-Mail: [email protected]
Mental
Health, Racism & Xenophobia
Convener: Cecilia Blewer – Tel: 212-866-4256; E-mail: [email protected]
Refugees,
Migrants and Trauma Survivors
Convener: Joseph De Meyer – Tel: 973-696-8554; E-Mail: [email protected]
Public
Affairs
Contacts: Sylvia Mendel – Tel: 212-545-9542; E-Mail: [email protected]
New
Proposed Group
Media/ICT
Convener: Elizabeth Carll – Tel: 631-754-2424, Email: [email protected]
As most people
think of media in terms of mass media such as the news media and Internet, information
and communication technologies (ICT) include a broader perspective of not only
the above but additional aspects such as distance learning and telehealth. However,
as many people may not be familiar with these definitions, prompted the use
of the above title. The focus of the working group would emphasize utilizing
the media/ICT to help communities recover in the wake of violence and disaster
and would include all forms of violence including interpersonal. In addition,
a second focus would involve working with the news media to help minimize secondary
traumatization through the depiction of violent images as well as strategies
as to how best to disseminate information concerning terrorism without creating
panic. Another focus for this working group would include taking up other topics
that would facilitate the work of existing working groups.