Assisting Victims Through Crisis and Trauma Conference
Recently, the Office for Victims of Crime sponsored the UALR Senior Justice Center to send Director, Dr. David Montague, and manager, Sam Johnston, to the Assisting Victims Through Crisis and Trauma Conference presented by The United States Attorneys’ Victim-Witness Programs for the Middle, Northern, and Southern Districts of Georgia. The Senior Justice Center won a $1000 OVC training scholarship at a raffle held during a training earlier this year. This one-day conference was held on the 18th of September at the Richard Russell Building in Atlanta, GA. Featured speakers included Ed Jacobs, PhD and Brian Ogawa, PhD. Dr. Ogawa presented a very exciting therapy used in assisting victims through traumatic experiences in life; Morita Therapy. Named for Japan’s pioneering psychoanalyst Shoma Morita, MD–a contemporary of celebrated Western psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud–this engaging therapy pulls many concepts from nature in order to restore peace to the traumatized. Dr. Ogawa discussed how the therapy is more like a way of life, with many practitioners in the East referring to the method as Morita-do; familiar to us through words like Taekwondo, aikido, and judo. This ’suffix’ signifies how incorporating certain disciplines into daily life often provides enrichment and fulfillment to those who practice. For more on Dr. Brian Ogawa, Morita therapy, or to read about the other distinguished speakers who presented at the Assisting Victims Through Crisis and Trauma conference, email manager Sam Johnston (smjohnston@ualr.edu), or navigate to our Articles of Interest section for copies of selected handouts from the conference (available soon).
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