Welcome to PTC(UK)
- Delivering Therapeutic Approaches to Children and Families in Palestine
- Providing Resilience to Traumatised People
- Giving Specialist Psychological Training & Supervision
Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) was set up in Hatfield, Hertfordshire in 2010 to support mental health and community workers in Gaza who are dealing every day with a traumatised population. It aims to build a network of specialist trainers in trauma therapies and provide emergency aid techniques for Gaza’s mental health workers.
It has, at the moment, direct links with Palestine Trauma Centre in Gaza (www.ptcgaza.com). Dr. Mohamed Altawil, a director of Palestine Trauma Centre (Gaza), came to the UK in 2004 to study psychology and he found therapists in many areas of psycho-social practice willing to give professional assistance to the hard-pressed mental health workers in Gaza.
PTC(UK) exists to co-ordinate and promote this support. It also hopes to extend research and treatment programmes relating to trauma into other parts of the Middle East