Training programs for professionals working with children-at-risk
The valuable lessons gleaned from our long-term therapeutic and educational programs have enabled the JHTC team to contribute to the enrichment of the professional community treating at-risk children in Israel and abroad. The JHTC offers psychologists, social workers, and special education teachers a variety of training and support programs within a number of frameworks.
Goldie Kassell Center professional training and support
The mental health specialists at the Goldie Kassell Center, our out-patient clinic serving the general community, provide professional support and training to residential care institutions, public agencies, community-based intervention and education centers, and professionals working with children and youth at risk. The Center offers seminars, workshops, training and mentoring services.
Training manual for childcare workers
JHTC professionals have compiled and published a 300-page training manual for child and youth care workers, Therapy in Life Space: a collection of papers on residential treatment (In Hebrew).
The manual, constituting major contributions by mental health experts and over 60 years of JHTC cumulative experience, serves all levels of residential caregivers working with children and youth at-risk. Now into its second printing, the manual has become a much sought-after guidebook throughout Israel's professional milieu.
Academic cooperation
The JHTC is recognized by leading Israeli universities as a top-level internship and advanced training center for students of psychiatry, psychology, social work, and special education. Additionally, research on the JHTC methodology and effectiveness has been carried out by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Ben-Gurion University. The JHTC also entered into long-standing professional dialogues with major centers in the United States, such as the Yale University Child Study Center.
JHTC Pedagogical Resource Center
The Pedagogical Resource Center, located at the Children's Home school, provides its teaching staff and school counselors with essential materials and services for the innovative development of teaching tools, learning aids, textbooks and treatment methodologies.
The Resource Center also holds annual training seminars for special education teachers and school principals from a wide variety of educational institutions and has become a model for emulation by other special education schools.
The Fall Seminar
The JHTC's annual Fall Seminar offers two intensive days of workshops led by Israel's leading clinical psychologists. The workshops are based on case presentations by professionals from all over Israel. The Seminar features a keynote address on a timely issue in clinical psychology given by a prominent clinician from Israel or abroad. The Seminar enables child psychologists and social workers to share ideas and insights and serves as a unique training tool for professional enrichment and growth.
Continuing service
Many JHTC staff members have gone on to be teachers and professors of social work, psychology, psychiatry, and special education. Others have become directors of social-service facilities and treatment centers throughout Israel. Through teaching, training and supervising, they communicate the JHTC's high standards and innovative methodologies to a new generation of professionals.