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Dr. Lauren Potthoff, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral science and pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a pediatric psychologist at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, recently spent seven days in Kyiv to volunteer with Ukrainian-based Voices of Children, a nonprofit foundation that provides psychological, psychosocial and targeted humanitarian support to Ukrainian families and children affected by the war.
While there, she visited the largest children’s hospital in Ukraine and a school in an area previously occupied by Russian troops during the war. But her main mission was meeting with academics and researchers on the ground to teach evidence-based psychological methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
Read the full story: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/10/a-pediatric-psychologist-goes-to-war-torn-ukraine/?fj=1
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Dr. Lauren Potthoff, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral science and pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a pediatric psychologist at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, recently spent seven days in Kyiv to volunteer with Ukrainian-based Voices of Children, a nonprofit foundation that provides psychological, psychosocial and targeted humanitarian support to Ukrainian families and children affected by the war.
While there, she visited the largest children’s hospital in Ukraine and a school in an area previously occupied by Russian troops during the war. But her main mission was meeting with academics and researchers on the ground to teach evidence-based psychological methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
Read the full story: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/10/a-pediatric-psychologist-goes-to-war-torn-ukraine/?fj=1
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