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Healing New York
children's trauma
By Ayako Ando
On-line Forty-Niner
A new professor
at Cal State Long Beach is preparing to travel to New York
to work with schools in the Manhattan area, close to the World
Trade Center.
William Saltzman came to the department of Educational Psychology,
Administration and Counseling from the UCLA Trauma Psychiatric
Program and is now teaching Marriage Family Child Counseling,
Counseling Children and Adolescents and Counseling Theory
for his first semester.
"My specialty is to work with children and family with
trauma and traumatic loss," Saltzman said. He is also
still taking part in the UCLA program.
Saltzman has studied the impact of the exposure to violence
and loss among children, adolescents and families, developing
programs for schools in the United States and abroad and by
developing treatment for the trauma.
"A lot of people need to know how to deal with kids and
families who have traumatic experience such as the death of
family members or friends, school shooting and beating,"
Saltzman said.
He said he wants to teach not only the people who become therapists,
but also educators and counselors.
After five years of doing research at UCLA, Saltzman found
that traumatic experience can have dominant and long term
effects.
Saltzman received a doctorate at the University of Maryland
and then helped a mental institution in New York develop research
and ways of analyzing children who have had difficult experiences.
His experiences there gave him the initiative to devote himself
to helping children get through tough times.
"I wanted to do the research because I also found the
lack of treatment availability of people who really have difficult
experiences," Saltzman said. "As seeing the impact
of the community violence, I thought it was important and
not a lot of people doing it."
Saltzman came to CSULB because he wanted to work with mature
and talented students here on campus and with people who are
serious about the therapy field.
"I am so glad that I can work with my students who have
this level of maturity and who want to know how to work with
children and adolescents or families who have traumatic experiences,"
Saltzman said. "Students are motivated and bright, so
we are having fun in the class."
Saltzman said he is very excited about teaching and working
on the programs at CSULB and he wants to introduce the trauma
treatment as much as possible.
"I just want people to try to monitor themselves how
they are feeling, and take the reaction seriously," Saltzman
said. "Everybody has reactions such as sadness or stress,
but if those things interfere with your life, it's really
important to talk to somebody."
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