Series at Green College | March 29

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Trauma/Resilience Lecture Series 

Challenge, Stress, Trauma: Pathogenesis and Salutogenesis
with Dr. Peter Suedfeld

The road of life is marked by many obstacles to success and happiness, peace and quiet. The emphasis of many experts in the helping professions is that these obstacles lead to psychological damage ranging from mild frustration to a shattered life. The presentation will assess these beliefs and propose a different perspective: how the threats are overcome, and how they may even be sources of psychological strength and growth.

Peter Suedfeld survived the Nazi Holocaust in Hungary. After emigration in 1948, he was educated in the U.S. (BA, Queens College, City University of New York, MA and PhD, Princeton). He is a veteran of the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force Reserve and has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Canada. Prior to coming to UBC as Head of the Department of Psychology in 1972, he taught at the University of Illinois and Rutgers. His research deals primarily with adaptation and resilience during and after challenging, dangerous, and/or extreme environments and experiences. These have included restricted environmental stimulation, life and work in the two polar regions and space, high-level political and military decision-making and information processing under stress, and experiences in environmental disasters, solitary confinement, persecution, and genocide. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has received various Canadian, American, and international awards for his research. In 2019, he was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada.
 

HYBRID FORMAT

Join us in-person at Green College on the UBC Vancouver Campus or virtually. The session will be followed by a reception. 

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Emeritus College and Green College

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