CENTER FOR POST-TRAUMA THERAPY
AND TRAUMA EDUCATION



The Center for Post-trauma Therapy and Trauma Education (former Crisis Consultation and Education Center (CCEC)) is Finland's first center for trauma psychology. The Center is located in Oulu and provides information, education, consultation and treatment for individuals, families, workplaces and communities who suffer from the effects of trauma.


Specialist services
  • Counseling
  • Psychological Assessment
  • Crisis interventions
  • Ayalon's Creative Tools
  • Crisis therapy
  • Post-trauma Psychotherapy
  • EMDR-therapy
    		•  Training
    Disaster preparedness training
  • Crisis contingency plan
  • Schools' crisis contingency plan
    Helping the helpers
  • Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
  • Peer Support Services
  • Psychological Debriefing training
  • Ayalon's Creative tools
  • Post-trauma Seminars
  • Training the trainers


    • Services for Communities
    and Firms
  • Counseling
  • Training
  • Supervision
  • Ayalon's Creative Tools
  • Critical Incident Stress Management
  • Post-trauma Psychotherapy
  • Rehabilitation
    		• Treatment Training
  • Crisis Interventions
  • Follow-up Services
  • Focused Post-trauma Therapy
  • Post-trauma Psychotherapy
  • EMDR-therapy
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    ORGANIZATION

    The Crisis Consultation and Education Center was a province-wide project implemented by the Mother and Child Home and Shelter of Oulu, together with the Oulu Area Society for Mental Health, the Northern Ostrobothnia District of the Mannerheim League for Child Welfare, the Oulu District of the Finnish Red Cross and the City of Oulu. The Finnish Slot Machine Association (RAY) financed the project between 1994-1998. The aim of the project was to promote and develop means to help the victims of traumatizing events and their helpers, in co-operation with volunteer organizations and government agencies


    The mother organization of the project was the Mother and Child Home and Shelter of Oulu (OET). The Board and the Executive Manager of the OET administered the project together with the Working Committee and the Project director. The Working Committee has been staffed by representatives of the four volunteer organizations and the city of Oulu.



    The Working Committee

    Working Committee
    In the back row from left to right: Mikko Naarala, City of Oulu ja Antero Aalto, Oulu Area Society of Mental Health.
    In the front from left to right: Leena Huhanantti, the Northern Ostrobothnia District of the Mannerheim League for Child Welfare, Arja Sutela-Keinänen, the Mother and Child Home and Shelter of Oulu and Tiina-Maarit Lipasti, the Finnish Red Cross and the City of Oulu.



    CREATING A PROTOTYPE OF EARLY CRISIS INTERVENTION AND FOLLOW-UP SERVICES

    In 1987, the Finnish Suicide Prevention Research Project built a network of professionals in Finland, in the Oulu area and brought the needs of crisis intervention into daylight. As a field interviewer of this project, Soili Poijula envisioned developing a prototype organization for systematic early crisis intervention since there was no center for crisis/trauma psychology in the entire country. As the idea of utilizing early crisis intervention, crisis teams and psychological debriefing became accepted in Finland, the first crisis team was started in the Oulu area in 1991. The network supported the idea of a specialized center to help trauma victims through provision of specialized treatment services.

    In 1994, four volunteer oranizations and the city of Oulu met and formed a project team along with members from child guidance organizations, the health care and social welfare systems, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Oulu Administration board, law enforcement agencies and the University of Oulu. The end product of the team was the creation of the Crisis Consultation and Education Center. The goals of the Center are to provide psychosocial support to victims of trauma, to develop a systematic model to help victims of trauma, and to care for helpers who work with the traumatized. The center offers early crisis intervention, crisis therapy and post-traumatic therapy. It organizes training in diagnosis and treatment of PTSD as well as crisis intervention and innovative therapies. The center sponsors EMDR-seminars and coordinates the Finnish EMDR network, informs the public and media about trauma and its impact, conducts research and networks with professionals on an international basis.

    Crisis Intervention Model

    Crisis Intervention Model



     
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