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)