Dr. Rony Berger is a senior clinical psychologist and a family and child therapist who is an internationally recognized expert in dealing with the psychological preparation for and aftermath of terrorism and other major disasters. Dr. Berger is on the faculty of Emergency Medicine at Ben Gurion University and on the faculty of the Stress, Crisis and Trauma program at Tel Aviv University. He is the Director of Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation Unit at Brit Olam (an Israeli International Relief organization), an the advisory board of the Center for Compassion at Stanford University and a Fellow in Psychology Beyond Borders, a humanitarian organization aims at alleviating the psychological suffering in the aftermath
of traumatic events.

From 1999-2010 Dr. Berger was the director of the community services at Natal Trauma Center where he designed community programs to deal with the impact of war and terrorism and trained thousands of professionals in treating trauma survivors. During the
period of 1997-2000, Dr. Berger was a Visiting Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Medicine at Al Quds University (The Palestinian Authority) where he taught medical and graduate students and co-founder and director of the Palestinian Center for Traumatic
Stress Studies. Additionally, he served as a senior researcher at the Harry Truman Center for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In training professionals and in leading emergency relief and medical teams, Dr. Berger has been involved in many of major disasters in the past two decades including the Oklahoma City, 9/11, Katrina, the Tsunami in Asia and the Pacific, the terror attacks in Sri Lanka and Thailand, and the earthquakes in Turkey, Indonesia, China, Samoa, Haiti, Japan and most recently in New Zealand. He has lectured, consulted and given workshops in agencies in the
USA and Europe such as the Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA), the American Red Cross, The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) in Connecticut and EU committees.

Dr. Berger Has published two books, wrote numerous articles in peer reviewed journals and authored several chapters on dealing with the aftermath of major disasters. His current interests are in studying the psychosocial impacts of war, terror and major disasters, vicarious traumatization and burnout among professionals, individual and collective posttraumatic
growth and pro-social behavior in the wake of traumatic situations. He is also working on designing interventions to deal with traumatized clients, families and communities.

Gelkopf, M., Berger, R., & Roe, D. (2016). Soldiers perpetrating or witnessing acts of humiliation: A community-based random sample study design. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 22(1), 84.
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Berger, R., Abu-Raiya, H., & Benatov, J. (2016). Reducing primary and secondary traumatic stress symptoms among educators by training them to deliver a resiliency program (ERASE-Stress) following the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 86(2), 236.

Palgi, Y., Gelkopf, M., & Berger, R. (2015). The inoculating role of previous exposure to potentially traumatic life events on coping with prolonged exposure to rocket attacks: A lifespan perspective. Psychiatry research, 227(2), 296-301.

Berger, R., Gelkopf, M., Versano-Mor, K., & Shpigelman, C. N. (2015). Impact of exposure to potentially traumatic events on individuals with intellectual disability. American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilities, 120(2), 176-188.

Berger, R., Gelkopf, M., & Heineberg, Y. (2012). A teacher-delivered intervention for adolescents exposed to ongoing and intense traumatic war-related stress: A quasi-randomized controlled study. Journal of Adolescent Health, 51(5), 453-461.
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