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Dr. Irit Felsen on Holocaust Survivors Being Online During the Pandemic

By On June 7, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Irit Felsen, adjunct professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, has published “‘Web-Based, Second-Best Togetherness’: Psychosocial Group Intervention With Children of Holocaust Survivors During COVID-19” in American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (Vol 91(2), 2021, 171-180).

Here is the abstract:

Evidence from multiple samples […]

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Dr. Irit Felsen Co-Authors COVID-19-Related Study About the Reactions of Children of Holocaust Survivors to the Pandemic

By On June 7, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Irit Felsen, adjunct professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, and Dr. Amit Shrira from Bar-Ilan University in Israel conducted a study between July and September 2020, based on a North American sample of 297 community-dwelling Jews of Ashkenazi origin, titled “Parental PTSD and Psychological Reactions during the […]

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Dr. Felsen Speaks at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

By On August 27, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Irit Felsen, adjunct professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, will speak on September 2, 2019, at a special program for the second generation of children of Holocaust survivors as part of the current exhibition, “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.”, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living […]

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Felsen Leads International Seminar

By On June 24, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Irit Felsen, adjunct professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, has a particular interest in survivors of trauma and in topics related to post-traumatic reactions, resilience, and intergenerational transmission of effects related to parental trauma. Felsen’s papers have been published in the International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma, the […]

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Felsen Leads Seminar on Holocaust Trauma

By On March 14, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Irit Felsen, adjunct professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, is a co-chair of the trauma group of the NGO on Mental Health in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations and a researcher with the Yale University Trauma Study Group. She has a particular interest in survivors of trauma, and […]

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Felsen Delivers Webinar on the Holocaust and Loss

By On November 6, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Irit Felsen, adjunct professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, began an online free webinar on October 8 hosted and supported by MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care, the largest hospice provider in New York State under Jewish auspices.

Titled “Grief and Renewal After the Loss of […]

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Felsen Gives a Talk and Leads a Webinar

By On October 12, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Irit Felsen, adjunct professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, presented “Dehumanization In Everyday Life: ‘Neuro-disgust’” on October 11, 2018, at the Integrative Trauma Colloquium: Dehumanization In Everyday Life sponsored by the National Institute for the Psychotherapies.

“In recent years I have become passionate about improving the care of […]

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Felsen Continues Her Work on Elderly Trauma Survivors

By On September 13, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Irit Felsen, adjunct professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, continues to focus her work to provide trainings to healthcare providers and mental health care professionals about the role of prior trauma in the lives of elderly survivors.

Dr. Felsen noted that “the proportion of older adults in the general […]

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Felsen Publishes Article on Trauma Related to the Holocaust

By On August 21, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Irit Felsen, adjunct professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, has published a paper in the July 16, 2018, issue of Psychoanalytic Psychology, a publication of the American Psychological Association.

Titled “Parental trauma and adult sibling relationships in holocaust-survivor families,” the paper addresses a pattern of difficult […]

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Felsen Leads Workshop for Children of Holocaust Survivors

By On June 5, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Irit Felsen, adjunct associate professor at Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, recently led a two-part Remembrance and Renewal workshop for children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors at the Boro Park Y. Called “Surviving and Thriving,” the event was hosted by Project Witness.

Felson also delivered two lectures at a conference about […]

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