• Introduction to Counselling
• Counsellor Awareness
• Counselling Skills
• Counselling Process and Model
• Cognitive Interventions
• The Therapeutic Alliance

Module Description: This unit provides an introduction and basic training in the nature and processes of counselling. Counselling skills including the microskills on which counselling activity is based such as listening, asking questions, reflecting, and clarifying, will be introduced. Students will be taught how to initiate counselling interactions, develop a counselling relationship and conduct a counselling session. The unit will also introduce the focus on counsellor awareness including students developing a basic awareness of how their own interpersonal styles, beliefs and internal processes affect the counselling process.

Textbook: Ivey A. and Ivey M (2007) Intentional interviewing and counseling, 6^th ed. Brooks/Cole CENGAGE Learning.

Assessment Method:

• Role Play Video
  • Candidates are to subject themselves to a 30-minute audio recorded counselling session.  In this activity, the candidate is to demonstrate their skills in facilitating a pre-intake interview from rapport building into establishing counselling goals.
• Self-Evaluation
  • Students in 1500 words, are to write a self-evaluation of their performance as a counsellor

• Major theories of Counselling and Psychotherapy
• Theory-based Intervention Techniques/Styles
• Human Lifespan Development
• Counselling Specific Client Groups
• Multicultural Issues in Counselling
• Ethical and Professional Issues in Counselling

Module Description: This unit will introduce major theoretical approaches to counselling and psychotherapy. It will provide theory-based practical intervention techniques that can be incorporated in the counselling process. This unit will focus on theoretical knowledge and issues related to human lifespan development and working with different client groups such as children, adolescents and the elderly. It will also introduce students to issues related to working with clients from different cultures. Relevant professional and ethical issues and their implications for everyday practice of counselling will also be covered in this unit.

Textbook: Corey, G. (2009) Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy, 8^th ed. Thomson, Brooks/Cole.

Assessment Method: 

• Case Study: Mei Ling
  • Candidates will have to analyze the case of Mei Ling and submit an effective treatment program, which is theoretically sound.
• Essay Writing
  • Candidates are to answer a two-item essay questionnaire regarding ethical issues in counselling.

• Stress
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Grief and Loss
• Self-esteem Issues
• Addiction Issues
• Relationship Issues
• Trauma

Module Description: This unit introduces common problem areas that clients may present in counselling. Topics covered are stress, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, self-esteem issues, addiction issues, relationship issues and trauma. These specific client issues will be incorporated within the overall counselling model and process. Professional and ethical issues in counselling will be further addressed in this unit especially in relation to the specific client issues.

Assessment Method: 

• Case Study
  • Candidates are to submit their proposed treatment plan for 2 counselling cases.
• Oral Presentation
  • Candidates are to do research about a counselling issue and present it in class.
• Resource Folder
  • Candidates are to conduct research about the counselling industry and counselling services in Singapore and compile the evidence for submission.

• History of Psychology
• Brain and Behaviour
• States of Consciousness
• Sensation and Perception
• Learning

Module Description: This unit provides a scientific overview of the essential concepts. Every endeavor will be made to show how these concepts are related to daily living.

Textbook: Psychology Core Concepts 6th Ed – Preston

Assessment Method: 

• Examination
• Essay Writing
• Candidates are to answer a two-item essay questionnaire regarding the introduction to psychology.

• Introduction and Prenatal Development
• Infancy and Early Childhood
• Middle Childhood
• Adolescence
• Adulthood
• Late Adulthood

Module Description: This unit gives a complete and balanced coverage of human development across the entire life span. The development is traced from conception through late life in sequential order. Physical, intellectual, social and emotional that impact development will be addressed. Theory is integrated with applications. Cultural variations and implications will be discussed as well.

Textbook: Human Development Across the Lifespan 6^th Ed – Dacey John S. Travers John F. (2006)

Assessment Method: 

• Examination
• Essay Writing
• Candidates are to answer a two-item essay questionnaire regarding developmental psychology.

• Personal Perception, Self
• Social Cognition, Attitudes
• Social Influence, Prejudice
• Interpersonal Attraction, Personal Relationships
• Group Behaviour and Gender
• Helping Behaviour and Aggression

Module Description: This unit provides students a balanced up-to-date coverage of basic topics, researches and theories to think about and make sense of the world. It helps students to understand the relevance of social psychological principles to current events. Meaningful examples will be shown on how theories can be applied to daily experiences and current social issues. Issues on self and group relationships, social cognition, attitudes, perceptions, gender plus an understanding of these issues within cross-cultural and multi-cultural context will also be discussed.

Textbook: Social Psychology 8th Ed – David G. Myers

Assessment Method: 

• Examination
• Essay Writing
• Candidates are to answer a two-item essay questionnaire regarding social psychology.

• Perception and Attention
• Sensory Memory, Short-Term Memory and Working Memory
• Long-Term Memory, Everyday Memory and Memory Errors
• Visual Imagery
• Problem Solving
• Reasoning and Decision-Making

Module Description: This unit connects studies of cognition with everyday life. Landmark studies and latest researches are discussed with concrete examples and illustrations to help students understand better the scientific importance of the cognitive theories and the relevance to daily lives. Both behavioural and psychological to cognition will be examined.

Textbook: Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research & Everyday Experience 2nd Edition by E. Bruce Goldstein

Assessment Method: 

• Examination
• Essay Writing
• Candidates are to answer a two-item essay questionnaire regarding cognitive psychology.

• Anxiety Disorders and Somatoform Disorders
• Mood Disorders and Suicide
• Eating and Sleep Disorders
• Substance Related and Impulse-Control Disorders
• Personality Disorders and Schizophrenia
• Development and Cognitive Disorders

Module Description: This unit introduces an integrative, multi-dimensional and a scientist-practitioner approach to psychopathology. Through these approaches students learn that psychological disorders are rooted in multiple factors; biological, psychological, cultural, social, familial and gender factors. Based on the updated diagnostic criteria of DSM-IV, it examines the definition of the mental disorders, development, etiology, treatment and prevention of mental disorders. Case studies featuring real clients are incorporated to give a realistic content.

Textbook: Essentials of Abnormal Psychology International Student Edition 4th Ed –  V Mark Durand, David H. Barlow

Assessment Method: 

• Examination
• Essay Writing
• Candidates are to answer a two-item essay questionnaire regarding abnormal psychology.

• Scientific-Psychology
• Research Techniques Observation & Correlation
• Research Techniques Experiments
• Ethics In Psychology Research
• How to Read and Write Research Reports
• Application on Research

Module Description: This unit takes an example-based approach to the fundamentals of research methodology. It helps students to connect the concepts of sound methodology with their practical applications. Examples of real world cases in specific topical areas will be discussed.

Textbook: Experimental Psychology 8th Ed -Kantowitz, Roediger III & Elmes (2005)

Assessment Method: 

• Examination
• Essay Writing
• Candidates are to answer a two-item essay questionnaire regarding experimental psychology.

• Memory, Thinking and Intelligence
• Emotion and Motivation
• Personality
• Psychological Disorders
• Psychotherapies

Module Description: This unit is a continuation of Introduction to Psychology 1, which provides a scientific overview of the essential concepts.

Textbook: Psychology Core Concepts 6th Ed – Preston

Assessment Method: 

• Examination
• Essay Writing
• Candidates are to answer a two-item essay questionnaire regarding the introduction to psychology.

• Theory behind Psychological testing and Assessments
• Related legal, ethical and social consideration
• Basic of test construction and evaluation including reliability and validity.
• Various Instruments would be covered in this unit for example Personality profiling tools, Career test, etc.

Module Description: This unit provides students with hands on experience on administrating; scoring and interpreting various psychometric tools applied in different field of psychology. Students will acquire principles of assessment, evaluation, referral, treatment planning, and report writing.

Textbook: 

1. Psychological Testing: Principles, Applications, and Issues, International Edition, 7th Edition
2. Robert M. Kaplan – University of California, San Diego
3. Dennis P. Saccuzzo – San Diego State University

Assessment Method: 

• To administer the psychometric tools covered in this unit
• Essay Writing
• Students are to write out their interpretation of the psychometric tools they administered.

• Job Analysis and Evaluation
• Employee Selection: Recruiting and Interviewing
• Employee Selection: References and Testing
• Evaluating Selection Techniques and Decisions
• Evaluating Employee Performance
• Designing and Evaluating Training Systems
• Employee Motivation
• Employee Satisfaction and Commitment
• Organizational Communication
• Leadership
• Group Behaviour and Conflict
• Organization Development
• Stress Management

Module Description: This unit helps students discover the relevance of industrial/organizational psychology in everyday life through practical application as they analyze topics such as resume writing, interview survival, job description authoring, performance appraisal, employment law, job satisfaction, work motivation, and leadership.

Textbook: 

1. Industrial/Organizational Psychology, International Edition, 6^th Edition
2. Michael G. Aamodt – Radford University

Assessment Method: 

• Examination
• Essay Writing
• Candidates are to answer a two-item essay questionnaire regarding the Industrial / Organization to psychology.

• Counselling Contact hours
• Case Management: 22-hours
• Personal Supervision: 6-hours
• Group Supervision: 10-hours
• Counselling Activities: 10-hours
• Personal Journal: 30-hours

Module Description: Students in this practicum will have the opportunity to apply counselling theory, knowledge and skills-based training in actual counselling sessions.

Assessment Method: 

To pass this practicum, students will be assessed by demonstrating competency in counselling through fulfilling of the following counselling related hours:

• Counselling Contact hours
  • Students are required to engage in face-to-face counselling sessions for a stipulated number of hours verified by the school clinical supervisors or faculty members.
• Case Management: 22-hours
  • Students are required to find themselves a voluntary welfare organization and be attached as a volunteer to provide counselling function within that organization. The hours would be verified by the centre director or trained professionals. This will also be counter-signed by the school faculty member.
• Personal Supervision: 10-hours
  • Students contact counselling and case management would be supervised by the school clinical supervisor on a one-on-one basis.
• Group Supervision: 6-hours
  • Students contact counselling and case management would be supervised by the school clinical supervisor on a group basis.
• Counselling Activities: 10-hours
  • Students are required to find themselves the opportunity to engage in counselling related activities ranging from administrative works (e.g. Assisting in case notes filing) to social activities.
• Personal Journal: 30-hours
  • Students are required to read at least three books of their choice in related field of counselling or psychology. They are then to write a summary of the book with their personal reflection about it.