Continuing Professional Education:
Short Courses
We offer short courses in various topics for social service professionals. Course participants are eligible for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits with the Singapore Association of Social Workers (SASW). One CPE credit will be awarded for each contact hour. Approval of CPE credits are to be submitted through the CPE Log Book under each accredited professional’s account.
Clinical
Intermediate Training in Gestalt Play Therapy
Designed for those who have completed the Basic Training in Gestalt Play Therapy, the workshop will build on theoretical, skill development and clinical practice from the Gestalt approach with emphasis on developing robust assessment, diagnosis and plans.
For: Practitioners working with children and adolescents in the field of health and mental health, helping professions, and related fields
Duration
4 Days
Upcoming Run
TBC
Gestalt Play Therapy – The Oaklander Approach
This workshop (basic, part 2) continues to build on theoretical understanding and clinical skills of Gestalt Play Therapy with special focus on the Oaklander Approach.
For: Practitioners working with children and adolescents in the field of health and mental health, helping professions, and related fields
Duration
2 Days
Upcoming Run
TBC
Offender Rehabilitation
Multicultural Sensitivity In Corrections
This workshop will explore what multicultural sensitivity entails and the processes involved in developing such competency. Participants will heighten awareness, and acquire skills and knowledge necessary to enhance multicultural practice, with a focus on corrections-specific scenarios.
For: Correctional officers, counsellors, social workers and psychologists.
Duration
2 Days
Upcoming Run
TBC
Process and Punishment
The course will introduce participants to the sociological and psychological issues relating to incarceration and their impact on the processes of prisonization, prisoner identity construction and management, and subsequent reintegration into society.
For: All helping professionals in the criminal justice system and anyone who has an interest in issues relating to crime, deviance and criminal justice.
Duration
2 Days
Upcoming Run
TBC
Crime and Punishment
The aim of the course is to acquaint participants with the criminal justice policy perspectives on crime and punishment and how best to respond to and reduce the problem of crime in contemporary societies.
For: Helping professionals in the criminal justice system and anyone who has an interest in issues relating to crime, deviance and criminal justice.
Duration
2 Days
Upcoming Run
TBC
Social Work and Ethics
Strengthening Ethical Reasoning for Social Work Practice
This didactic and interactive course emphasizes ethical reasoning as a cornerstone in social work ethical decision-making. It aims to equip social workers with foundational ethical theories and decision-making frameworks to guide them in ethical reasoning and decision-making.
For: Helping professionals in health and social services.
Duration
3 Days
Upcoming Run
TBC
Social Work and health
Understanding Common Child and Adolescent Mental Health Disorders through a Social Work Lens
This course aims to equip community social work practitioners with relevant knowledge on screening of childhood mental health disorders, as well as effective support and interventions.
For: Social workers and social service practitioners who work with families who have children with mental health disorders.
Duration
2 Days
Upcoming Run
4 to 5 Sep 2025
Family Conferencing: Facilitating Difficult Healthcare Conversations and Decision-Making
This course will equip Social Workers with the knowledge and skills related to breaking bad news, truthtelling and healthcare decision-making, which are critical to enable them to perform these supportive roles effectively.
For: Social Workers in health and social sectors who are required to work with clients and families in making healthcare decisions.
Duration
3 Days
Upcoming Run
29 Sep to 1 Oct 2025
Using Skills-Based Behavioural Health Approaches in Managing Chronic Conditions
This course covers case and care planning using different models and approaches for developing case and care plans to support clients'/patients’ need in accordance to organisational practice.
For: Social Workers, Counsellors, Case Managers/Coordinators with at least 1 year of relevant work experience.
Duration
3 Days
Upcoming Run
8 to 10 Oct 2025
Foundational Module in Mental Health for Social Workers
This is a foundational module in mental health targeted for social workers after their first year of practice. It covers basic knowledge in common mental health problems to facilitate social workers to screen clients for management and escalation to the next level of care.
For: Social Workers after their first year of clinical experience.
Duration
2 Days
Upcoming Run
27 to 28 Nov 2025
Family Conferencing: Managing Challenging Family Situations Involving Conflict Resolution & Mediation
This module builds on the foundations laid under Family conferencing: Facilitating difficult healthcare conversations and decision-making. The focus is on building advanced skills-set to handle difficult conversations, teach the art of negotiation and mediation to resolve impasses.
For: Social Workers in health and social sectors who are required to work with clients and families in making healthcare decisions.
Duration
3 Days
Upcoming Run
TBC
Social Work and Leadership
Agile Team Management for the 21st Century Social Worker
The course would introduce the Agile mindset and its relevance to the current complex, everchanging and chaotic social conditions. The focus is to prioritise client centric practice while maintaining the balance between organisation and client outcomes.
For: Social Workers; Counsellors; Case Managers; Centre Managers; Allied Health professionals.
Duration
3 Days
Upcoming Run
TBC
Others
Cost-Benefit Analysis for Social Service Providers
This course aims for social service providers to gain structured knowledge about cost analysis of social service programs and skills of planning and conducting simple cost analyses. With these, they are expected to make evidence-informed decisions on the allocation of resources and efforts for efficient implementation of their social service programs.
For: Social service providers in human service settings.
Duration
3 Days
Upcoming Run
18 to 20 Nov 2025
Financial Capability and Asset Building
Financial Capability and Asset Building – Social Service Practitioners [Basic]
In this course, learners will be equipped with competencies on financial capability which focuses on working lower-income families to achieve income stability, improve their financial capability and begin asset building with the overarching aim to improve their longer-term financial well-being by taking on a life course perspective.
For: Practitioners without social work qualifications, who are working with lower-income/financially vulnerable individuals and families.
Duration
3 Days
Upcoming Run
TBC
Financial Capability and Asset Building – Social Work [Intermediate]
This course seeks to equip social workers with knowledge and skills in financial capability and asset building (FCAB) and in enabling them to integrate FCAB approaches in social work interventions with financially vulnerable individuals and families on financial matters so that social work interventions can be more effective in achieving overall life outcomes of the clientele.
For: Social workers working with lower-income/financially vulnerable individuals and families
Duration
3 Days
Upcoming Run
TBC
Tech
Artificial Intelligence for Social Work
This course will empower social workers to leverage AI tools ethically and effectively, ensuring they can navigate the evolving landscape of technology in social services while maintaining human-centered care.
For: Practitioners such as social workers, counsellors, or caseworkers in the social service or health care sector.
Duration
2 Days
Upcoming Run
25 to 26 Aug 2025
Data Analysis and Reasoning for Social Workers
This course isn’t just about crunching numbers – you will gain skills in interpreting and reasoning with data, enabling you to craft compelling narratives that will inform and guide your decision-making in real-world scenarios.
For: Practitioners such as social workers, counsellors, or caseworkers in the social service or health care sector.
Duration
1 Day
Upcoming Run
21 Nov 2025
Design Thinking for Social Work
In this course, social work practitioners use human-centered design principles to solve problems and create new solutions for their clients, and employ design tools and frameworks in practical, project-based application.
For: Practitioners such as social workers, counsellors, or caseworkers in the social service or health care sector.
Duration
2 Days
Upcoming Run
TBC