In recognition of the upcoming tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Academy for Critical Incident Analysis at John Jay College of the City University of New York assembled an interdisciplinary group of scholars, educators, mental health professionals, writers and journalists for a conference on The World Trade Center Attack: Consequences...
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Two decades before 9/11, Suzanne Silverstein founded the Psychological Trauma Center, which works through schools, principally with art therapy, to to help children who have undergone traumatic experiences. The center is based at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and is currently active in 27 schools throughout the Los Angeles area -- most serving...
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In her novel Ask Me No Questions Marina Budhos tells a 9/11 story that is very different from the one most Americans would recognize. Her narrator, Nadira Hossain, is the younger of two teen-aged sisters in a Bangladeshi immigrant family living in New York but, like many in that community, without legal residence...
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Dr. Cynthia Pfeffer is professor of psychiatry and program director of the Childhood Bereavement Program at Weill Cornell Medical College. Her clinical work, research, and teaching center on child development, anxiety, depression, suicidal behavior, and bereavement. At ACIA's conference, she spoke about a major empirical study on children who lost a parent on...
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Dr. Sandro Cinti is Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan Medical School and the Veteran’s Affairs Ann Arbor Health System. A specialist in infectious diseases, he has had a long-standing involvement in preparations at the national, state and local level for responding to biodisasters such as...
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Donna Friedman is an adjunct associate professor at the New York University School of Social Work and deputy executive director of the Riverdale Mental Health Association, an outpatient mental health clinic in New York City. She has been a therapist and researcher in the Mothers, Infants, and Young Children of September 11 program....
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Jacques Menasche, a New York-based writer, editor, and filmmaker, spoke at the opening session of ACIA's "Children of 9-11" conference. That session took place at 7 World Trade Center, which stands on Greenwich Street -- the same street as the school Menasche's son Emanuel was attending in 2001. The windows of the 10th-floor meeting...
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