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Have you ever felt a desire to help others but don’t know where to start? Have you found that you don’t know how to react to others in need? In our daily lives, the ability to attend to others can really count, especially in times of stress, when individuals often seek clarity and support from others around them.
You can play a crucial role in the lives of others around you. Build more positive relationships by developing the ability to lend a listening ear, and support others through difficult times through the use of basic counselling skills like asking questions, paraphrasing, and reflecting.
Day 1
Code of Ethics, Confidentiality
Foundations as a Helper
Invitational Skills & Opening Skills
Using Questions
Paraphrasing
Day 2
Reflection of Feelings
Reflection of Meanings
Summarizing
Termination
Day 3
Understanding the use of genograms through case studies
Introduction to counselling framework – PADI
Putting it all together
Certification
Participants who meet at least 75% of the required course attendance and attempt the assessment will be awarded the Certificate of Performance.
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| Fees Type | Course Fees (w GST) |
|---|---|
| Singapore Citizens | |
| Full Course Fee / Repeat Students | S$642.00 |
| Aged 40 and above / SME-sponsored | S$72.60 |
| Aged below 40 | S$192.60 |
| Non-Singapore Citizens | |
| Full Course Fee / Repeat Students | S$648.00 |
| Singapore Permanent Residents / Long-Term Visit Pass Plus (LTVP+) Holder | S$194.40 |
| SME-sponsored (Singapore Permanent Residents) / Long-Term Visit Pass Plus (LTVP+) Holder | S$74.40 |
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Fionna Thong
Ms. Fionna Thong has been a psychology lecturer at Temasek Polytechnic (TP) since 2013. She started out her career as a home based therapist for children with autism. Subsequently, she joined the Singapore Prisons Service as a counsellor working with female offenders. Fionna received her Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) from the National University of Singapore (NUS), and a Masters in Applied Psychology (Counselling Psychology) from Nanyang Technological University (NTU). During the course of her training, she has also interned at counselling and family service centres, and worked on a diverse range of counselling issues, such as addiction, mental health concerns, family and parenting issues, marital issues, social skills training, applied behavioural analysis, emotional regulation and suicide management, across different populations, including young children, young adults, adults, older adults and special/vulnerable populations.
Vincent Bong
Vincent Bong has been teaching the subject “Introduction to Counselling Psychology” at Temasek Polytechnic for many years, and he has also co-facilitated this workshop in Practical Counselling for public-run. He is also a certified facilitator for Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People in Temasek Polytechnic, having conducted these workshops for more than 100 staff. Vincent comes with diverse work experience covering human resources, organisational development, management leadership training, coaching and counselling, interacting with people from different cultures and backgrounds in multi-national companies. He has accumulated first-hand experiences attending to employee grievances, trauma and despair through his involvement in a variety of organisational restructuring, and mergers & acquisitions exercises. As a father of two adult children, one a male and the other a female, Vincent has also been through the hard knocks in life with his family and loved ones, applying the basic counselling techniques you will learn and role play in this course to deal with issues, decision-making and varying situations in life.
Emil Cheong
Emil Cheong has been lecturing in Temasek Polytechnic since 2010. Prior to this, he has worked in education research and was also a tutor and instructor in university Psychology courses. He has experience teaching in areas related to counselling, social, personality, and cultural psychology, as well as research methods. Besides teaching Psychology, he has also worked in the counselling role with youth in secondary school and polytechnic settings, on various issues including academic stress and motivation, personal and school relationships, and mental health. Emil studied Psychology and Sociology at the National University of Singapore, and completed his Masters in Psychology at Nanyang Technological University, and Masters in Guidance and Counselling at James Cook University. He is trained and certified in Choice Theory / Reality Therapy.
Monday - Thursday: 8:30am - 6:00pm
Friday: 8:30am - 5:30pm
Closed during lunchtime, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
and on weekends and public holidays.
Temasek SkillsFuture Academy (TSA)
Temasek Polytechnic
East Wing, Block 1A, Level 3, Unit 4
21 Tampines Avenue 1,
Singapore 529757
Temasek Polytechnic reserves the right to alter the course, modify the scale of fee, amend any other information or cancel a course with low enrolment.
