Awards and Honors
2020 - Gradiva Award by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis for Best Digital Media for Moral Injuries of War
2009 - Max Heyman Award for Scholarship on Holocaust and Genocide and the African Refuge by the American Orthopsychiatric Association
2008 - American Family Therapy Academy Award for Distinguished Contribution to Social Justice
2006 - American Cape Mount Association, named Honorary Chief, Porkpa District of Liberia for Contribution to the Higher Education of Liberians and to the Liberian Diaspora Community in the US
2005 - Ministry of Health, Kosovo - Acknowledgement for the Contribution and the Development of Health Services in Kosovo
2002 - Marion Langer Award of the American Orthopsychiatric Association for Exemplary Work in the Areas of Social Advocacy and Human Rights
2002 - Adelphi School of Social Work Award for Contribution to the Field of Trauma Studies
1998 - Hebrew Union College Joseph Award for Humanitarian Service for Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture
1998 - New York University Curricular Development Challenge Grant for the International Trauma Studies Program
1997 - Family Therapy Networker Innovations in Training Award for Training Program at Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture
1986 - Retirement Research Foundation National Media Awards, First Prize for Source of Strength: Ethnic Identity in Later Life (Documentary video)
1985 - International Film and TV Festival of New York, Silver Medal for Source of Strength: Ethnic Identity Later in Life (Documentary video)