Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/coping-with-stress-and-surviving-challenging-times/5015241/
What better setting could there be for writing an article on ongoing stress!Place - Middle East (Israel's northern border with Lebanon to be precise).
Time - the start of "War with Iraq II" following a long build up of military activity and an even longer period of uncertainty in the region.
Mood - mixed. People are fed up with war and violence, but live in the hope that one last action, one final decision on the part of the leaders, one step in the right direction, and things will at least start to look up, but in the meantime . . . .
The Community Stress Prevention Center (CSPC) has been looking at the effects of ongoing stress on toddlers, schoolchildren, and adults for over 20 years now. What started as a project with a small group of schoolteachers in a school in Kiryat Shmona in the north of Israel has turned into an international concern. At the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s Kiryat Shmona was subject to regular Katyusha rocket bombing from across the border.
When the young educational psychologist Mooli Lahad (now professor of Dramatherapy and CEO of the CSPC at Tel Hai College) suggested to a ...