David Bolton
David Bolton is a trauma researcher, writer and practitioner. He trained as a social worker in Belfast from 1974 to 1978, during some of the worst years of the civil conflict. At the time of the Omagh bombing of 1998 he coordinated the immediate and longer-term responses of community services, including establishing the Omagh Community Trauma and Recovery Team. In 2002 he became the founding director of the Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation, which closed in 2011. He lives in...See more
David Bolton is a trauma researcher, writer and practitioner. He trained as a social worker in Belfast from 1974 to 1978, during some of the worst years of the civil conflict. At the time of the Omagh bombing of 1998 he coordinated the immediate and longer-term responses of community services, including establishing the Omagh Community Trauma and Recovery Team. In 2002 he became the founding director of the Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation, which closed in 2011. He lives in County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. See less
