Project: Mozambique
Start of the project: 2000 and 2005
Target group: Physicians, psychologists, pedagogues.
Services: Internationally approved training in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy.
Aims: Projects in Africa, which are supporting traumatized children, child soldiers, AIDS orphans, or victims of natural disasters, often recruit highly motivated but untrained local staff. This some times leads to overwork and failures. In Mozambique, in cooperation with University of Eduardo Mondlane, a three year long curriculum was carried out. A first training unit for physicians and psychologist from Iraq, Palestine, and others from the Arab world started in Damascus in February 2005. Since then more summer and winter schools took place. Besides giving a qualified psychotherapeutic training with main focus on children, adolescents, and families based on international standards, one aim was to integrate regional and cultural characteristics as well as experiences made from therapists working with holocaust survivors.
To whom it may concern:
I am a trained therapist from South Africa and I am currently in the final stages of my Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
I recently moved to Mozambique. My husband works here and we are living in Matola, close to Maputo. I would like to get involved in initiatives in Mozambique and have a particular interest in work with children and adolescents.
Please let me know if you could use my services.
Regards,
Talia