“Children and War. Teaching Recovery Techniques” therapy sessions have been held in spring in Dnipro, Odesa cities and Vinnytsia region within the “Helping Hand for Ukraine” project. Trainers of the program, Alina Sheina and Olena Kichuk (Dnipro), Olga Kizilova and Sofia Kolbasina (Odesa), Oksana Tereshchuk and Svitlana Yurchuk (Tulchyn, Vinnytsia region) worked with groups of participants. They helped children to develop and master skills of coping with their traumatic experiences, using self-help, relaxation and recovery techniques in present conditions of war-related stress.
Nowadays, many children in Ukraine have suffered from the full-scale armed aggression of the rf, live in difficult conditions and need psycho-emotional support. It is difficult even to imagine how many children lost their loved ones or homes during the war, about children who sleep in bomb shelters, live amid the sounds of constant sirens in anxiety and fear for themselves and their relatives, or who were forced to leave for other countries, leaving behind their schools, friends and the normal life. “Children and War. Teaching Recovery Techniques” program is effective for processing and dealing with such traumatic experiences.
We are sincerely grateful to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF) for the financial support of our project.
