Professor Dr. Lahad is one of the world’s leading trauma therapists. Also a drama therapist, Professor Dr. Lahad is a full-time lecturer in psychology and drama therapy at Tel Hai College in the Upper Galilee region of Israel, he also teaches at the University of Roehampton in the UK.
Professor Dr. Lahad has two PhDs, one in Clinical Psychology and the other in Human and Life Science. He is a senior medical and educational psychologist and is the director of the Community Stress Prevention Center (CSPC), which he founded 35 years ago. He is also the founder of drama therapy education in Israel and has chaired the Chair of the Master Program in Drama Therapy at Tel Hai College.  After the war in Yugoslavia, he helped UNICEF and the 1999 earthquake in Turkey; he helped the government as a consultant. He has led many international psychosocial projects. These projects focus on crises and disasters and aim to educate professionals in that region and thus educate professionals in society. These projects are located in America after 9-11 September (2001-2005), after Hurricane Katrina (2006-2010), Sri-Lanka (2004-2007), and Japan (2011-2014). He has authored and co-authored 35 books and numerous articles about societies under stress, social recovery and rehabilitation following disasters, coping with life-threatening situations, the impact of fortitude and art therapies on post-disaster recovery, recovery methods and protocols in children, adolescents, adults, families and communities. Professor Lahad has developed the Resilience of BASIC Ph. model and its use, which has received six awards worldwide. Some of them include the Israeli Psychological Association’s award for its contribution to education in Israel, the Adler Institute’s award for the welfare of children, and the innovation award in medicine given by Tel Aviv University for the telepsychology service it has developed. For more information, please visit www.icspc.org

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