When HPRT was founded in December of 1981, the terms and the underlying concept of human rights and refugees did not exist in American medicine. International donors considered refugee mental health to be an unnecessary luxury; it was generally believed that little could be done to restore torture survivors to normal lives.
Attitudes and values have dramatically changed as to the importance of healing the physical, psychological and spiritual suffering of sufferers of extreme violence. HPRT has been at the forefront of this global effort along with many of HPRT's colleagues throughout the world.
Attitudes and values have dramatically changed as to the importance of healing the physical, psychological and spiritual suffering of sufferers of extreme violence. HPRT has been at the forefront of this global effort along with many of HPRT's colleagues throughout the world.
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The Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma has spent 40 years caring for the health and mental needs of survivors of mass violence and torture through a combined practice of clinical experience and medical research. To bring the advances of modern medical science to those members of our society who in spite of their great suffering have little access to care.
While events of human violence may occur on just a single day, their impact on survivors and their families and can last a lifetime. The complex multiple effects of extreme violence on human beings demand equally complex methods for discovery and treatment. Observing and caring for the scars of torture on a survivor's body requires different skills than appreciating the inner suffering of a survivor of sexual violence. Some effects of violence are deeply personal and individualized; others seem to be almost universal.
HPRT has been training primary care physicians, mental health clinicians, and members of the clergy in the former Yugoslavia since 1995. HPRT has trained over 200 practitioners in Bosnia and Croatia in caring for survivors of mass violence, through a model that is being replicated throughout Bosnia and has been accepted by the region's Stability Pact. Our work in Bosnia has been supported by the World Bank, the Open Society Institute, and USAID.
HPRT is currently under a grant from the Office of Refugee Resettlement to provide community-based clinical care for torture survivors residing in Massachusetts. HPRT clinicians are currently working on-site at community health centers and mutual assistance agencies, and with asylum attorneys, screening and evaluating patients, providing consultation/liaison to primary care providers, and offering Health Promotion classes in Khmer.
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Soe Thiha
Jun 01, 2022
One of the most famous, good teaching method and high class universities in the World. Most of the people in the world would like to visit if they have a chance. The good thing is that it is open for all and everyone could go around. Many tourists there enjoying walking and taking photos in the University compound.
Hatice Dayan
May 06, 2022
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Apr 17, 2022
Jennifer Schell
Mar 26, 2022
Daniel Duran
Nov 16, 2021
Tony Yang
Nov 12, 2021
We chose the Golden Bus day tour from New York to Boston and came here for the Harvard school visit, it was good experience for our young boy and his classmates, around 12 years old. It is great to take a look at the world top standard uni in the world. The local guide whose grand parents emigrated from Italy to USA guided us and introduced lots and lots background information to us about the uni, and also the Boston city, history, etc.amazing.
John Z.
Oct 09, 2021
Very nice campus. I especially like the tour I had a few years ago. I visited the campus again this week. This time I did a self tour. This gives me the flexibility to spend time on whatever I want. My suggestion is to have the official tour first, then do a self tour to catch up what's missing on official tour.
Lsr Laxman Solai Ramanathan
Sep 25, 2021
Harvard University Oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world. Harvard University takes the top spot when it comes to producing the most presidents in US history, with a staggering 5 Presidents. Harvard has more alumni, faculty, and researchers who have won Nobel Prizes (161) and Fields Medals (18) than any other university in the world and more alumni who have been members of the U.S. Congress, MacArthur Fellows, Rhodes Scholars (375), and Marshall Scholars (255) than any other university in the United States.
Its alumni include 5 U.S. presidents and 188 living billionaires, the most of any university. 14 Turing Award laureates have been Harvard affiliates. Students and alumni have won 10 Academy Awards, 48 Pulitzer Prizes, and 110 Olympic medals (46 gold), and they have founded many notable companies.
Its alumni include 5 U.S. presidents and 188 living billionaires, the most of any university. 14 Turing Award laureates have been Harvard affiliates. Students and alumni have won 10 Academy Awards, 48 Pulitzer Prizes, and 110 Olympic medals (46 gold), and they have founded many notable companies.
Amith Kumar Raul
Sep 09, 2021
