Editor's Introduction

Clinical social worker who has served as a senior psychosocial advisor to the United Nations (UN), governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) during conflict and in the transition to peace. She is jointly appointed as Associate Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College and the Graduate and University Center of the City University of New York. She is a member of the IASC (Inter-Agency Standing Committee) Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Work in Emergency Settings (a UN/Red Cross/NGO coordinating body), and a candidate at IPTAR (Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research). She is the author of peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters on psychosocial interventions in armed conflict, including “Knowing Terrible Things,” published in the Clinical Social Work Journal and winner of the 2007 Tyson Prize by the International Psychoanalytical Association, and “Pedrito the Blood of the Ancestors,” published in psychoanalytic journals in the United States, Colombia and Brazil, and winner of the 2011 Hayman Prize for published work pertaining to trauma with children and adults.