Esther Cohen Author

Avigdor Klingman is Professor in the Counseling and Therapy Division of the Faculty of Education of the University of Haifa and has served as Head of the State Disaster Crises Intervention Division of the Psychological Services of the Ministry of Education in Israel. His work has been selected by the American Psychological Association’s Division of Child, Youth, and Family as a model program for service delivery. His work includes research on children's and adolescents’ stress reactions and coping in war and warlike situations and the study of the effects of school-based primary prevention and stress inoculation programs.

Esther Cohen is Chair of the Graduate Program for Educational and Child-Clinical Psychology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has been engaged in clinical work with children, families, and groups affected by war and terrorism, served as the head of the preschool psychological services for the city of Jerusalem and in the aftermath of 9/11 lectured, trained, and consulted at the Ackerman Institute, the NYU Child Study Center, and the NYU International Trauma Studies Center.