About the Course
While providing a continuum of care to families, people helpers may encounter couples who are so conflictual with each other that it hinders their families from receiving the help they need. The escalation of marital conflicts may result in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and cause collateral harm to children in the families.
This course aims to help participants differentiate couples who require mediation or counselling to reduce their conflicts. For couple mediation, participants will be introduced to the goal, structure and process of the mediation framework. For couple counselling, the course imparts to participants the Individually & Interactionally Oriented Interventions of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) that they can use to encourage positive behavioural change in conflictual couples.
Finally, participants will also learn to recognise signs of attachment injuries to prevent escalation of couple conflicts to IPV and other harmful behaviours.
Course Content/Topics:
Difference between couple mediation and couple counselling.
Goals of mediation and key attributes of a competent mediator.
Structure and Process of couple mediation framework.
The stance and tone of an Emotionally Focused therapist.
Forming therapeutic alliance with clients.
Individually and Interactionally Oriented Interventions of EFT.
Attachment injuries and symptoms.
Intervention considerations for transnational couples and couples with attachment injuries.
Assessing Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and self-harming behaviours.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
Use the Process of couple mediation framework.
Apply Individually and Interactionally Oriented Interventions of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to encourage positive behavioural change in couples and reduce conflicts.
Recognise the signs of attachment injuries and prevent escalation of couple conflicts to Intimate Partner Violence and other harmful behaviours.
Who Should Attend
Social Workers, Social Work Assistants / Associates, Case Managers, Counsellors, Psychologists, Law Enforcement Officers, mental health workers and any profession who is interested in working with couples.
This course is suitable for practitioners, professionals, board members and volunteers in the social service field, pastoral staff and para-counsellors who are working with couples and families.
Corporates like other SSAs, Family Service Centres, etc. can engage us to conduct the course for their staff who work with couples.
While there are no pre-requisites to the course, participants should already be working with marital couples or are interested to work with them in the future.
This course is not suitable for the General Public seeking to improve the conflictual marital relationships of themselves or their relatives. For couple counselling services, you may refer to https://www.arkalliedhealth.com/portfolio/counselling-services/
Award
Participants who meet 75% class attendance will be awarded a Certificate of Accomplishment by the Academy of Human Development.
Your Trainer
Mr Ho Tze Yee
Mr Ho Tze Yee joined Fei Yue Family Service Centre as a counsellor/senior social worker in 2009 after obtaining his Master of Social Science (Counselling & Psychotherapy).
Tze Yee believes that as a basic unit of society, the family should be an environment where every member can feel safe and secure to develop their potential. During his appointment as Chairman of the Jurong Family Violence Working Group, Tze Yee organized public education initiative on elderly abuse, and also facilitated the collaboration and sharing of best practices between Family Service Centres and Neighbourhood Police Centres.
As a practitioner, Tze Yee is a strong proponent of ‘talking cure’ and its potential in facilitating behaviour change. He has keen interest in working with persons who abuse, and has provided individual and group counselling to help them adopt non-violent ways of relating to their families.
Tze Yee embraces the passion for life-long learning and has attended training in family conflict management & mediation and working with sexual offenders. In 2015, he obtained his Graduate Diploma in Social Work to increase his repertoire of helping skills.
As an Adult Educator, Tze Yee is passionate about imparting and facilitating the sharing of knowledge and skills, and aspires to be an ‘oak’ to grow the ‘acorns’ of all learners.
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