OMAGH-BASED TRAUMA CENTRE SHARES KNOWLEDGE WITH SWEDISH CLINICIANS
Omagh-based trauma centre shares knowledge with Swedish clinicians
THE Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation hosted a visit to Omagh last week for twenty one mental health practitioners from the Swedish National Centre for Disaster Psychiatry based in the University of Uppsala and its sister organisation, the Clinical Centre for Traumatic Stress Disorders from Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden.
The aim of the exchange was to hear about the work of the participating organisations and to share best clinical practice in the field of trauma treatment with the Omagh-based centre.
The director of the Omagh Trauma Centre, Mr David Bolton, received the visitors.
"This was a wonderful opportunity to meet with fellow clinicians from Sweden and to hear about the strategic nature of their work. We were particularly interested to learn about how and why the national centre for disaster psychiatry was established by the Swedish government and how it links into service delivery to support the needs of people in their community suffering trauma and other psychological conditions".
The directors of the Clinical Centre for Traumatic Stress Disorders in Uppsala, Ms Kerstin Bergh Johannesson and Dr Tom Lundin also expressed delight at the outcomes of the visit.
"The exchange of ideas was very useful indeed and it was interesting to hear about the work of the Omagh Centre and the health care context in which it operates. Sweden has a history of a peaceful society but this has changed. During the last decade and especially after the 9/11 tragedy and the murder of the Swedish Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh, society generally has become less peaceful. We have to be prepared for the potential that terrorism and political and ethnic violence may have."
THE Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation hosted a visit to Omagh last week for twenty one mental health practitioners from the Swedish National Centre for Disaster Psychiatry based in the University of Uppsala and its sister organisation, the Clinical Centre for Traumatic Stress Disorders from Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden.
The aim of the exchange was to hear about the work of the participating organisations and to share best clinical practice in the field of trauma treatment with the Omagh-based centre.
The director of the Omagh Trauma Centre, Mr David Bolton, received the visitors.
"This was a wonderful opportunity to meet with fellow clinicians from Sweden and to hear about the strategic nature of their work. We were particularly interested to learn about how and why the national centre for disaster psychiatry was established by the Swedish government and how it links into service delivery to support the needs of people in their community suffering trauma and other psychological conditions".
The directors of the Clinical Centre for Traumatic Stress Disorders in Uppsala, Ms Kerstin Bergh Johannesson and Dr Tom Lundin also expressed delight at the outcomes of the visit.
"The exchange of ideas was very useful indeed and it was interesting to hear about the work of the Omagh Centre and the health care context in which it operates. Sweden has a history of a peaceful society but this has changed. During the last decade and especially after the 9/11 tragedy and the murder of the Swedish Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh, society generally has become less peaceful. We have to be prepared for the potential that terrorism and political and ethnic violence may have."
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Publisher: TYRONE CONSTITUTION
Ref: TC/1764
Published Date: 07-Oct-04
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