International Humanistic Psychology Association
IHPA partners with Common Bond Institute (CBI) on operating
psycho-social training and treatment programs for vulnerable at-risk populations.
IHPA and CBI are professional nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations based in the US. For 30+ years they have partnered on operating numerous local capacity building training and treatment programs, and over 50 major international training conferences on conflict transformation and social healing, in various countries experiencing conflict and turmoil. We are dedicated to a philosophy of strategic collaboration with like-purposed NGOs in addressing large scale humanitarian crises.
Social Health Care (SHC)
Training and Treatment Program
Disaster Health Care Field Clinics
Direct treatment field clinics providing emergency psychosocial and medical services to refugees, while also providing supervised practical field experience for local trainees in the Social Health Care training program.
Community Based Treatment Programs
Providing on-going direct psychosocial services to refugees and at risk populations, and demonstrating community-based human service models that can be established, operated, and sustained in regions of great need and scarce skill and material resources.
- Center for Healing and Renewal
- Women’s Safe Space Projects
- Trauma-Informed Schools – Educational Recovery Project
- Youth and Community Resilience Building
Psychosocial Specialty Training For Medical Students and Practitioners
A certified practical training program provided to Jordanian medical schools, preparing MDs with skills that range from basic psychosocial evaluation and interventions skills for general practitioners to higher level psychiatric specialty skills, in partnership with Jordanian medical schools, Michigan State University Department of Psychiatry, and International Humanistic Psychology Association.
Certified Diploma in Social Work
A Certified Practical Diploma program preparing social work students in Jordan with practical skills training and field experience in psychosocial service skills enabling them to provide critical direct services to at-risk and un-served communities, including refugees. The program is conducted by CBI in partnership with Queen Rania Center for Jordanian Studies and Community Service, Yarmouk University, Michigan State University, and the International Humanistic Psychology Association.
Community-based Training Program
A progressive training and field experience in psychosocial support and treatment skills open to local trainees in Jordan. It prepares both professional and para-professional service providers to quickly provide a progressive range of direct treatment services, from lay emotional support, immediate care, and crisis stabilization, to more in-depth and longer term mental health treatments.
Psychosocial Training for Clergy and Religious Teachers
A faith-based skills training, in partnership with Michigan State University Department of Psychiatry. The program provides orientation and training to clergy, religious teachers, and religious studies students in Jordan on basic psychosocial symptoms and behaviors, cultural competency, basic intervention responses and supportive counseling skills to assist those seeking them out for help, determining when a professional therapist is needed and where and how to refer someone, and how to handle unique situations and issues clergy and religious teachers encounter with many individuals who are suffering from psychosocial difficulties and seeking their help.
A service provided from any location to any location in the US
A national virtual service delivery system bridging language and cultural gaps to provide critical mental health services for non-English speaking refugees being resettled in the US. The service taps into the skill resources of therapists, coping skills trainers, and trained health care translators with the requisite language and cultural expertise from any where in the country to reach service recipients located any where in the country.