User:Sunshine locomotive/sandbox/Dr Daniel Guttfreund

Dr Daniel Guttfreund is a Jewish-Salvadorian Clinical Psychologist, community organizer and entrepreneur. Studying, researching and treating patients in Israel, El Salvador and the U.S.A he has worked with a wide verity of cases, and developed an expertise in issues related to sexual abuse, multi- cultural coping and PTSD. He is also the founding president of 'museo Tin Marin', El- Salvador's largest children's museum.

Childhood
Dr Guttfreund was Born in San Salvador and is the youngest of 5 siblings. His parents, Enrique and Gertrud are both Jewish European immigrants who fled from Germany to Latin America shortly after Hitlers rise to power in the 1930s. His father Became a business man, community organizer and later on the Ambassador El Salvador to Israel. during the Salvadorian civil war, Dr Guttfreund and his family received kidnap threats and were forced to leave the country.

Studies
Dr Guttfreund Received his B.A in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He then moved to California to complete his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego. He Doctoral Dissertation was PuBlished in The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology in 1990 and has since been the Co-Author of a number of International journal publications.

Working in Israel
Finishing his studies Dr Guttfreund moved back to Israel and began working in different capacities at the Hebrew University: Starting a clinical practice At the Hebrew University Counseling Center and researching  different psychological aspects of  immigrants as well as the influence of the gulf war on the Israeli population. Dr. Guttfreund also began working in field of children and youths psychology, developing a popular board game intended to increase emotional communication between parents and children.

Returning to El Salvador
Moving back to El-Salvador, Daniel started a private practice becoming one of the only PhD clinical psychologists in the country. He advised sensitive and high stake cases of PTSD related to kidnaping, worked with the UN and co authored writings about prevention of salvadorian children's sexual abuse. Daniel has always been involved in community organizing, and he served as the Acting President of NGO “Asociación Barra de Santiago”, organized internationally public speaker to come to lectures in El Salvador and became the founding President of  'Tin Marin' children's museum', El Salvadors most visited cultural institution. Dr Guttfreund and his wife Lisa currently live in San Salvador, where they raised their 3 daughters Maya, Gabriela and Ilana.