News From Health Restoration International
- We are happy to announce we now have a small permanent office space in Moscow with a wonderful new Executive Director, Michael Odita.
- Marilyn is feeling much better after her spinal surgery and extensive hospital stay in January and February of 2007 and was delighted to be able to return to Russia in May-July and in September-October. She will continue to be in Russia in January-February; May-June-July; September-October of each year. She sends journals regularly to interested persons - you may ask to be added to her email list to receive them directly.
- We have been providing post-graduate courses for Moscow State University of Psychology and Education for three years as part of their Continuing Education Department with classes presented at various government-owned counseling centers for the treatment of children and families - with their staff and other psychological professionals in attendance.
- The University is now requesting a full specialty program in The Treatment of Trauma, Abuse and Deprivation using the Murray Method starting at the University in 2008; this would be available to students receiving their M.A. or Ph.D. in psychology and also offered as a post-graduate specialty to acting health professionals. Moscow State University of Psychology and Education just celebrated their 95th anniversary and is regarded as the most prestigious psychological university in Russia so we regard their invitation to become part of their graduate curriculum program as a great honor.
- Our Russian Board Members - Dr. Victoria Bartsalkina, a psychologist and head of the counseling psychology department at Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, and Natasha Dmitreiva, a psychologist and director of a staff of fifty-five psychologists and psychiatrists for a large family counseling center presented the Murray Method at a major national psychological conference in Moscow, December 2006 and have been asked to repeat it in December, 2007.
- Natasha Dmitreiva presented Murray Method Level I and II seminars for a psychological university in the Ukraine in 2006 and 2007.
- Dr. Valentina Moskalenko, a well-known Russian psychiatrist and professor has taught the Murray Method at the Moscow Psychological Institute for the past three years.
- Major Natalia Stretzlova, a prison psychologist in Southern Russia is teaching the Murray Method to seventy prison psychologists whom she supervises. She also received a grant from the European Union to provide Level One seminars for prison workers in the northern Caucasus areas where violence is extraordinarily severe. Her work using the Murray Method with prison inmates has been included in a new book regarding prison psychology and treatment, and the same author will be writing a follow-up article on Major Natasha's grant work in the northern Caucasus.
