Caroline Freud due in January

A well-known Family Therapist, in the U.K., and trainer on empowering parents and communities will be in Sri Lanka for the second time, to conduct workshops on Fundamentals of Child Psychology, purely for social service, and to raise funds for one of her favourite projects in the down south.

Caroline Freud works as a family therapist in a specialist unit for traumatized children in Surrey, UK, and is the co-ordinator and trainer on the Empowering Communities Project for the Centre for Parent and Child support, Guys Hospital, London. She has worked in the field of Parenting Education for over 20 years.

She has a Bsc and Msc in Psychology, and currently Caroline is managing a project researching the impact of training parents to run parenting courses in their communities. She has developed several courses for professionals who work with parents such as working with children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, non-directive play and parenting teenagers.

She will be conducting two-day programmes for two days on "Fundamentals of Child Psychology" in Colombo on 4/5th January and 8/9th January in Kandy. This programme is for parents, teachers and caregivers. All proceeds will go to empower women and livelihood - Healing Hands Organization - Matara.