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Introduction
Counselling older people require specific knowledge and skills. This course will introduce students to the basic counselling skills, approaches and interventions pertinent to working with older people. The course provides opportunities for students to develop key competencies and be equipped with tools to effectively assess, intervene and employ basic counselling techniques when they work with older people.
The course is part of:
- Graduate Certificate in Health and Ageing
- FlexiMasters in Health and Ageing
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Course Availability
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Date(s): 11 to 25 May 2024
Time: 9:00AM to 5:00PM (11, 18 & 25 May 2024)
Venue: NTU Virtual Learning Environment
Registration is closed.
1. Understand the role and scope of counselling in assisting older persons.
2. Demonstrate effective basic helping skills and interventions pertinent to working with older persons.
3. Identify various counselling approaches appropriate for working with older persons.
4. Understand common issues (e.g., suicide, grief and loss) that older people present during the helping process.
• Introduction to Basic Counselling Skills
• Supervised Counseling Role Plays
• Values and Ethical Issues in working with the Geriatric Population
• Counselling Models and Theories
• Addressing Suicide in Gerontological Counselling
• Addressing Trauma, Resilience, Grief and Loss in Gerontological Counselling
• Experienced ageing care professionals such as nurses and allied health workers
• Career switchers who have a passion in ageing care
• Young graduates who are in the ageing care industr
Standard Course Fee: S$1635.00
<SSG Funding Support | Course fee | Course fee payable after SSG funding, if eligible under various schemes | |
BEFORE funding & GST | AFTER funding & 9% GST | ||
Singapore Citizens (SCs) and Permanent Residents (PRs) (Up to 70% funding) | S$1,500.00 | S$490.50 | |
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS) | S$190.50 | ||
SCs aged ≥ 40 years old | |||
- Standard course fee is inclusive of GST.
- NTU/NIE alumni may utilise their $1,600 Alumni Course Credits. Click here for more information.
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Dr Tan Soo Yin
Assistant Dean, Student Development & Counselling, Office of Teacher Education
Senior Lecturer, National Institute of Education - Psychology and Child & Human Development
Research InterestsSubstance-abuse counselling (individual and group), Counselling process, Counsellor self-efficacy and Counselling clinical supervision
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Dr Lee Boon Ooi
Senior Lecturer, National Institute of Education - Psychology and Child & Human Development
Besides teaching and research, he is a practising psychologist for more than 20 years, specialising in depression, psychosis, dissociation, and psychosocial oncology. Similar to his research, he adopts an integrated approach to counselling. He maintains an active private practice and provides consultation at the Department of Psychosocial Oncology at the Singapore National Cancer Centre. He is a Recognized Clinical Supervisor certified by The Singapore Association for Counselling.
Research Interests
Culture and mental health: Multicultural therapy, multicultural school counselling, Indigenous healing systems, cultural psychopathology, , health beliefs, somatization, embodiment, narratives and phenomenology, mental health and alteration of consciousness (e.g., dissociation, trance)
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Dr Isabelle Ong Gaffney Pei Ling
Part-Time Lecturer, National Institute of Education - Psychology and Child & Human Development
Dr Isabelle Ong Gaffney Pei Ling is a Mental Health Counsellor at SACAC Counselling doing counselling for Children, Adolescents, Adults, Couples, and Parents. Her specialisation is in Psychological & Personality Assessments.
Research Interests
Domestic Violence, Expressive Art Therapy, Integrative Treatment Modalities including Yoga and Mindfulness, Multiculturalism, Play Therapy, Religion and Spirituality, Sandtray Therapy, Social Justice and Advocacy, Trauma and Abuse
| COURSE TITLE | ACADEMIC UNIT |
| CET125 Perspectives on Ageing | 1.5 |
| CET126 Ageing and Public Policy | 1.5 |
| CET127 Ageing and the End of Life | 1.5 |
| CET128 Mental Health and Ageing | 1.5 |
| CET130 Traditional Chinese Medicine for Older Adults | 1.5 |
| CET131 Research Methods for Ageing | 1.5 |
| CET133 Work, Stress, and Health | 1 |
| CET134 Religion and Public Health | 1 |
| CET135 Communicating Complexity Part 1: Tackling communication barriers | 1 |
| CET136 Communicating Complexity Part 2: Data Visualization | 1 |
| CET137 Communicating Complexity Part 3: Communicating for different audiences | 1 |
| CET138 Big Data and Computational Social Science | 1 |
| CET139 Qualitative interviewing | 1 |
| CET140 Applied Research Methods in Social Sciences | 1 |
Listed courses are:
- Credit-bearing and stackable to Graduate Certificate in Health and Ageing (total 9AUs) and FlexiMasters in Health and Ageing (total 15AUs)
- SSG funded and SkillsFuture Credit approved
