Essam Daod is a child psychiatrist using a groundbreaking approach to help Syrian refugees handle their trauma effectively. Subscribe for more videos of people moving the world: https://freeth.ink/youtube-subscribe-essamdaod

The world news over the past few years has been filled with coverage of the Syrian civil war. Caught in the crossfire of Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad and various rebel and terror groups, millions of Syrians have fled by sea hoping to reach Greece or other places to take refuge.

The toll of the brutal civil war and dangerous journey across the Mediterranean on the mental health of Syrian children is so extreme that it has been coined “Human Devastation Syndrome.” Israeli Arab doctor Essam Daod was so moved by their plight that he went to the Greek island of Lesvos in order to help treat their mental health as a form of first aid. He is using an innovative technique in order to help stop post-traumatic stress disorder in kids: helping them process trauma by creating a new internal narrative of what happened to them. He’s also recruited lots of other volunteers and is training child therapists for his group Humanity Crew, which has provided 26,000 hours of mental health support to over 10,000 refugees through 194 delegations of qualified, trained volunteers and therapists. Could this technique be used to prevent PTSD in children in other scenarios?

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