- Psychologist- Knowledge Translation
- Certified Clinical Criminal Justice Specialist #16713
- Executive Director The Kolo: Women's Cross Cultural Collaboration
Psychologist- Knowledge Translation Ft. Lewis McCord,
WA.,& Forensic Psychotherapist with a wide range of experience in third
world countries including Afghanistan, Bosnia Holland, Sub-Sahara Africa,
Sudan, and Haiti. Organizer and CEO of The Kolo: Women's Cross Cultural
Collaboration, an international initiative aimed at providing support,
psychotherapy and life education, intensified learning applications, training
for victims and offenders of war torn countries, refugee issues, as well as
sexual abuse.
Provides senior level project management for clinical and scientific research
projects- knowledge translation, train the trainer programs (US Military Sexual
Harassment & Sexual Assault-SHARP), including developing research
objectives, managing diverse teams of professionals and executing field
experiments that are later analyzed and interpreted. Author of numerous
publications, interviews, presentations and articles, many of which have been
published and/or highlighted in notable publications. Subject matter expert in
socio-cultural influences, low-literate populations, Traumatology, perinatal,
development psychology, neuroscience psychology, and somatic psychology.
Trauma Treatment | Crisis Intervention | Train the Trainer | Forensic Psychology
Life Training | Field Experiments | International Court Proceedings | Curriculum Development
Project Management | Research Methodologies | Grant Development
WORKSHOPS, PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINAR TOPICS AND DESCRIPTIONS
Informed Trauma Care Practices
Contemporary and innovative engendered approaches for Acute Trauma,
Intergenerational Trauma and Crisis/Conflict Skills from Africa, Bosnia, India
and Sri Lanka conflict/war and natural disaster zones
Humanity Living in the Aftermath of War and Disaster
Attached to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, as a
Psycho-social Gender Victims Expert, Danica Anderson articulates the raw
expressions and first person stories from her field work as a principal
practice to extinguish intergenerational hatred. As part of the presentation,
Ms. Anderson will moderate an interactive, live video forum with international
survivors for four war and conflict zones. In the oral presentation and visual
formats series, Ms. Anderson informs and allows us to observe the patterns
found both in national & international zones of violence, conflict as well
in the aftermath of catastrophic violence & disasters to include disease.
Gender Issues for Disaster and Emergency Health in the Aftermath of Violence
and Conflict
Developing a response protocol that recognizes females as the major resource in
national & international policies and planning. A dynamic and interactive
presentation to engage participants in determining how their responses can
engender policies and approaches across multi-disciplinary fields Based on
ingesting the information about female war and conflict survivors- natural
disaster survivors (Bosnia and Sri Lanka) that have utilized the Kolo: Women's
Cross Cultural Collaboration (Kolo-Serbo-Croatian for circle or to dance)
trauma format.
War Crimes-Bosnia: Women's Cross Cultural Trauma Treatment Approaches
Extensive insight for the engendered innovative kolo (a circle in
Serbo-Croatian) format, a psychosocial dynamic model incorporating archetypes
and Feminine Archetypal Psychology, to treat victims of abuse, violence, rape,
and gynocide
Bearing Witness Extinguishes Intergenerational Hatred
Attached to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, as a
Psycho-social Gender Victims Expert, Danica articulates the raw expressions and
first person stories (Bearing Witness) from her field work as a principal
practice to extinguish intergenerational hatred. Intergeneration hatred-
learned behaviors often done in intensive learning dynamics such as our complex
adaptive systems of life from the psychosocial to the cellular-genomic.
Hate Crimes- Human World Surviving
How Hate Crimes are hidden behind the words such as culture, family and
entitlement along with the rule of law vocabulary- molest for sexual abuse;
This dynamic and interactive Bearing Witness presentation engages participants
in determining how our responses can engender policies and approaches across
multi-disciplinary fields so as to become ‘Everyday Activists' in our own native
communities.
Striving for Social Justice in an Unequal World
Acknowledging the patterns found in hate crimes such as the shooting death of a
volunteer and injuries in the Jewish Center in Seattle 2006 occurred using a
young woman Anne Frank's age to move past security. Coupled the recent school
killing of young girls, Jackson Katz, author in a recent article noted the hate
crime patterns as" In the many hours devoted to analyzing the recent school
shootings, once again we see that as a society we seem constitutionally unable,
or unwilling, to acknowledge a simple but disturbing fact: these shootings are
an extreme manifestation of one of contemporary American society's biggest
problems -- the ongoing crisis of men's violence against women."
Beleaguered Workplace: Emergent Comprehensive Traumatic
Stress Management for Organizations Intensive
Rising Health, Medical and Mental costs due to Violence issues, Deaths,
Suicides, Catastrophic illnesses, Sexual Harassment and Sexual Discrimination.
Personnel, Security, Management managers are often fighting for their lives and
that of their employees in today's workplace. Intensive advisory work/study for
corporations and organizations offers an engendered ‘state of the art' trauma
approaches from which to manage and be proactive in an increasingly grievous
time for employee issues requiring costly crisis intervention measures. An
‘engendered' approach is desperately needed since 85%-95% of violence victims
are female.
Telehealth- Knowledge Translation
How Psychological health and Telemedicine is merged with today's technology.
Informs us to consider the advancement of telehealth to cut costs but deliver
the best treatment. The current obstacles to telehealth and clinical work.
PAST ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTATIONS, TRAINING AND INTERVIEWS
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
International Criminal Court, the Hague, Holland
Blood & Honey: The Secret Herstory of Women; South Slavic Women in a World
of Modern Day Territori
Genomic Lens of Culture: South Slavic Women War Crimes & War Survivors,
Association for Slavic
Human Rights & Maternal Fright, Human Rights & Human Security
Conference, Paris France, June 20-21
Culture vs Gynocide Danica Anderson, PhD interview by Liberty Beacon Town Crier
Radio- Leslie Caro