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The Sha’ar HaNegev Psychological Service Center has been a unique and leading center since 1965.
The main goal of the center is to strengthen and nurture the mental health and resilience of the residents of the south of Israel, children, teenagers and adults, with an emphasis on the residents of the Gaza Strip. We are sensitive to the changing needs of the region’s residents in times of both normality and emergency.
The center has about 60 therapists and multidisciplinary professionals who take on a comprehensive and holistic view of each and every patient. The center’s therapists provide a response to patients of all ages, whether individual, couple, family or group, and have a comprehensive and complete set of education, training and practical experience.
We offer emotional therapies in all approaches, combined approaches, short-term therapies (such as CBT), therapies that incorporate mindfulness, and a variety of therapies in the arts, music, drama, sensory regulation, and more.
The center provides a complex of physical and developmental treatments for children and preschoolers, including many paramedical fields, including occupational therapy, speech therapist and physical therapy.
The Educational Psychological Service of Sha’ar HaNegev carries out multi-professional work in formal and informal education systems, instructs educational teams, provides training for parents using unique methods it has developed, and has a unique specialization in accompanying families of at-risk youth. Extensive research and methodological work is also carried out in this unit.
In the center there is a wide diagnostics unit, which relies on innovative methods. We provide assessment of attention functions (advanced ADHD diagnosis), didactic and psychodidactic diagnoses to detect learning disabilities and other diagnoses among children, adolescents, students and adults, and psychodiagnostic diagnoses designed to identify complex emotional problems. Every diagnosis made at the center is carried out thoroughly, accompanied by practical recommendations, guidance of the subject, guidance for parents, guidance for educational staff and more.
Our mindfulness center was established from the belief that integrating this field into our lives produces inner calm and balance, strengthens mental resilience and contributes to reducing anxiety and depression, as shown by thousands of scientific studies in the field. Accordingly, we offer themed evenings, lectures, courses and training in the field to the general public, as well as training for therapists, educational teams and kindergarteners. We also provide special training for the integration of mindfulness within the framework of traditional psychological therapy. In recent years, we have made it our goal to integrate mindfulness skills into educational settings, and accordingly we have developed unique educational programs that are implemented for kindergarten children and elementary school students.
The center and its therapists have extensive knowledge and experience in various groups and workshops intended for the general public as well as for therapy, teaching and counseling professionals. These include a social skill group for schoolchildren, workshops to strengthen resilience and coping resources, dyadic groups for preschoolers to strengthen the parent-child bond, parent groups, student groups, sensory regulation workshops for caregivers, ADHD workshop for professionals, a group of widows and widowers, and more. Organizations and institutions can be invited to groups and workshops tailored according to the needs of the place and the team. In addition, we have lectures in various fields.
The center is a professional home for the training and nurturing of professionals and therapeutic and educational teams. The center has a training unit that conducts courses, workshops and seminars in the field of trauma, mindfulness, emotional therapy, developmental therapy, ADHD and more.
