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AAPT Spring Newsletter
The Alabama Association for Play Therapy (AAPT) Spring Newsletter is available for download from our website.
In the future, the current newsletter will be available to members first then friends later. However, we’ve posted this newsletter so that everyone has access to it right now.
Check it out and discover:
- a great termination technique
- a wonderful website
- and how to be grateful for all that we have in our lives
Click here to download and view the Spring Newsletter!
In The News — Sharon Bell
AAPT member Sharon Bell was recently consulted for an article in the Montgomery Advertiser.
She is a play therapist but also a Marriage and Family Therapist. Working to help families become and stay strong helps the parents and the children. The article also references the Family Guidance Center in Montgomery which works to create stronger families – the center employees several AAPT members.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
She (Bell) strongly recommends pre-marital therapy and urges couples to leave no stone unturned. In such sessions, they discuss time together, finances, religion, sex and other topics related to marriage as well as how to work toward a successful union.
Please take a moment to read the entire article entitled, “Groups Strive to Help Married Couples Preserve Their Unions“.
April is Child Abuse Awareness Month
Please remember that April is Child Abuse Awareness Month. This is an annual event bringing attention to the issue of child abuse and focusing on prevention. Since 1989, the Blue Ribbon Campaign to Prevent Child Abuse has been highlighted in April. It was started by a grandmother in Virginia who lost her grandson to child abuse. It started with this one grandmother tying a simple blue ribbon to the antenna of her car in remembrance of him and a reminder to others.
In honor of the precious children who have lost their lives as a result of abuse, children who may be saved by awareness, those taking action to prevent abuse, and out of appreciation for those who step in to help children who have been victimized, we encourage you to wear a blue ribbon during this month.
We send this blue ribbon as a small thank you for helping children heal from abuse.
2008 Spring Conference!
Our next workshop will feature Liana Lowenstein — the topic is “Creative Interventions for Bereaved Children and Children of Divorce”. Register online now!
AAPT Launches New Web Site!
Read all about it!
The Alabama Association for Play Therapy (AAPT) has launched not only a new web site, but a new “Web Presence.” We are making use of many of the latest, cutting edge technologies in order to better serve the play therapy community in Alabama.
You are currently reading a “blog entry” in our new Web Log, better known as a “Blog.” We have named our blog “News from the Playground!”
By subscribing to our automatic email updates, you will receive an email linking you to the latest blog entry — containing all of the latest and greatest news from AAPT!
Whether we announce training opportunities, write book reviews, link you to relevant news in the media, or just share something humorous — this is the place to find it. We will always have a link on our web site to send you here, and we will have links here to send you to our web site.
Sound confusing? Don’t worry — we will be here to help you every step of the way — but we doubt you will need it. Just remember, to get started on the right foot you need to subscribe to our automatic email updates. Did we say that already? It only requires a valid email address and takes no more than 30 seconds.
Now let’s talk about what’s new on the playground!
Currently you will find the following features on our web site / web presence:
- A message from our president
- List of Board members and their bios
- A detailed history of our association
- How to join AAPT
- A members directory
- Quarterly newsletters
- Polls and surveys
- Detailed info about upcoming training
- On-line registration
- Grant information
- Parents/Caregivers section
- This web log you are reading right now
- and much more …
And we are just getting started. Future updates will include:
- A discussion board
- A calendar of events
- Links to related web sites
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Find a Play Therapist in your area
- Photo galleries
- Puzzles and games
- and much, much more …
So take a look around at all of our new “toys” — and feel free to leave a comment.
Have fun and thanks for visiting!
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