Yesterday, 28 November 2016, took place the launching of a training handbook that summarizes the Swiss-Romanian transfer of expertise, offering guidance and practical advice to specialists engaged in the psycho-traumatology field. The event was organised within the closing conference of the project ”Harmonization in Professional Development Standards in Psycho-trauma Intervention through Swiss-Romanian Cooperation”, co-financed by a grant from Switzerland through the Swiss Contribution to the enlarged European Union. This publication is a course support, the fist part being dedicated to the course ”Elements of psycho-traumatology in…

ICAR Foundation together with eight organisations specialised in working with torture’survivors ellaborated a manual of good practices dedicated to all mental health professionals who are interacting with individuals affected by torture. The partner organisations are: Asociación EXIL (Spain), Comissió Catalana d’Ajuda al Refugiat (Spain), British Refugee Council (United Kingdom), Freedom from Torture (United Kingdom), Greek Council for Refugees (Greece), ICAR Foundation (Romania), Psychosoziales Zentrum Düsseldorf (Germany), REFUGIO München (Germany), Syn-Eirmos -Babel (Greece). More details on the project: here. The ebook is available: here.