Institute for Caribbean Children and Families: Play Therapy Training

The Sisters of Mercy did a wonderful feature on the Institute for Caribbean Children and Familes' new Play Therapy Center at Alpha Infant School. See link below

https://rsmjm.org/2023/06/16/changing-lives-through-play/)

Changing Lives Through Play – Sisters of Mercy of Jamaica Changing Lives Through Play Leave a Comment / Alpha Infant / By SOM Team Alpha Infant achieved another milestone in its efforts to promote mental health and wellbeing among students through the launch of a play therapy room! Play therapy is a form of psychotherapy which helps persons (mainly childre...

Summer workshop output. Prototype tactile corner made by a group of 4 guidance counsellors from Portmore and Kingston. Alpha staff will now make these from wood for our new Play Therapy Centre

Mrs Ingrid Robinson, Board Chair of Alpha Infant school, interacts with play therapy students during summer training workshops at the Alpha Infant Schools Play Therapy Centre run by the
Institute for Caribbean Children and Families. August 2023.

Summer 2023 Play Therapy : Snippets in Time. Nevin White, Guidance Counsellor from Portmore Prep school snd Sharon Pryce, demonstrated social stories using puppetry, about "Visting the hospital", "Bullying", and "Changing Schools" for children with Autism.

Opening of new Play Therapy Centre in April 2023 at Alpha Infant School in Kingston Jamaica, now provides ICCF training for professionals and para-professionals in psycho-social assessment and intervention for children and adolescents in downtown Kingston area..

Recent summer programme engaged children 6-12 years, from the Peace Management Initiative in doing therapeutic art activities to help them to develop resilience and advanced social and emotional coping skills. Students were able to strengthen their emotional intelligence, in preparation for the new school year...
Activities took place at the new ICCF pop-up PMI Play therapy centre in the Cross Roads area, where they were able to engage and relax with play therapy trainee Zinette Walcott- Malcolm,
and ICCF director Dr. Crawford- Brown.The activity was the termination of the final phase of a 2 year play therapy training for 6 graduate students who have been undergoing a rigorous structured training accreditation programme in Play Therapy, since 2019, with the Institute. This training is being done by ICCF in collaboration with Chesapeake Beach Professional Play therapy institute based in Maryland USA.

Face-to face counselling was an important aspect of the play-therapy interventions used. Art and puppetry were used in after-school programmes for children with emotional and behavioural problems in inner-city communities in Jamaica.

Our Play Therapy Conference will be October 24, 2020. Click here to register! https://form.typeform.com/to/Qp70Pa1U

"Psycho-Social Intervention Techniques for Covid-19 patients and their families" webinar

The Institute for Caribbean Children and Families in Collaboration with the Ministry of Health, NERHA, will be hosting this Webinar on Friday, April 10, from 1:00 -2:30 pm via Zoom.

Jazz B blogged about Dr. Crawford-Brown's 40+ year career in child advocacy through violence prevention programs, puppetry, the writing of books, and play therapy.

https://welllivedliving.home.blog/2020/01/08/dr-claudette-crawford-brown-changing-the-world-by-saving-the-children/

Dr.Claudette-Crawford Brown-Changing the World by Saving the Children Dr. Claudette Crawdord-Brown “In the Caribbean we have this mix of people who gravitate towards music, drama, and art like it’s part of their DNA. And therefore if we are gonna heal the persons whe…

All play therapy students interested in joining the new ICCF play therapy cohort for 2020 can see list of schedule for the new academic year below.

The Institute for Caribbean Children and Families welcomes the new Cohort for 2020 who started in November 2019. They did their foundations of play therapy module, as well as how to set up a play therapy room. We welcome them and look forward to having fun and learning many new and exciting play therapy techniques in the year ahead.

Play therapy training retreat October 2019 in Ocho Rios Jamaica Amazing experience! Ready for another before we complete training!

Play tberapy training using Art activities within context of Adlerian methodologies....Caribbean Beach sand Play continues to be a hit with practioners.

Puppet Pals who help me get messages across to Caribbean children about Migration, human traffickinh, the dangers of Human Trafficking and dangers of joining of gangs.

A.azing to be sharing Caribbean models of play therapy with clinicians from across the USA and the eorld in Chicago USA

Summit | Community Engagement | Adler University Please join us for the Second Adler University Adlerian Summit: Belongingness, Personality Development, and Social Evolution on Friday, March 8, 2019. This full-day Adlerian training has the most exciting list of presenting guests including: Dr. Eva Dreikurs Ferguson, Dr. Julia Yang, Dr. Richard Wat...

January training was very fulfilling! Medical social Workers and Guidance Counsellors just completed sessions on Developmental Play Therapy.They also looked at the Nuts and Bolts of setting up a Play Therapy room

Feby 1 and 2 2019
Play Therapy Training

ICCF on the move in Kingston primary schools, uptown and downtown Kingston.Nov. 2018

Please register for Nov 24 Play therapy workshop by email.
See form on FB page
Can also register at the workshop-$1,000.Regis.Fee.

Want to know how to engage children
Who you work with professionally, or do you want to learn creative activities to engage your own children?Nov 24; SWTC- UWI 9-4:00pm
Cost $3,000 per person...Be there!!
Call 345 3888 or 648 8172, for more information

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