Dr. Frances Anderson, affiliate faculty in the College of Charleston’s School of Education, Health, and Human Performance and School of the Art, has been awarded an unprecedented fifth Fulbright Award. She returns to Pakistan in October as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. She will be presenting art as therapy workshops for U.S. aid workers and other Non-Governmental Organization staff who have been overwhelmed by the huge number of flood victims. Volunteers and university graduate psychology students will also attend the workshop series.Dr. Anderson’s focus will be on the child flood survivors. “Art is the first language of traumatized children,” she says. “Art gives opportunities to express the trauma and horrors that children have experienced during and after the flood. There will never be enough trained art therapists in this world to help all the traumatized children. What I can do is provide some basic art and listening skills for the workers.”
