[2-day Short Course] Understanding Underlying Emotions in Reintegration Work
About the Course
Anger is an emotion that many offenders have difficulty with. They experience it strongly, some all too frequently, express it in ways that are destructive and ultimately are damaged by it as well. This two-day module will inform participants on how this emotion is experienced in the body and mind. It will identify the many ways to help clients better regulate this emotion.
Objectives
At the end of the programme, participants are expected to achieve the following objectives:
- Identify the role played by underlying emotions such as anger, shame, grief, and aggression, as a behaviour, in the lives of the addict and the family.
- Enhance the skills of clients to better manage the underlying emotions such as anger, and aggression.
- Equip participants to work with dysregulated clients (aggressive) in a safer manner.
At the end of the workshop, participants are expected to be able to do the following:
- Appreciate the physiological and cognitive forces at work when clients' emotions are triggered and why they act in that manner.
- Work with clients in a safe manner that avoids triggering them and helping them to deescalate.
- Teach clients ways to better self-regulate the strong emotions.
Who Should Attend
Social workers and social service practitioners in the criminal justice system and anyone who has an interest in issues relating to crime, deviance, and criminal justice, who have:
- A degree in Psychology, Social Work, Counselling, or Sociology, or
- Relevant work experience in casework, rehabilitation work and counselling
Contact us
For any questions about this course, email us at swkcpepc@nus.edu.sg or call us at 6601 5960.
About the Instructor
Mr Benny Bong
Director,
The Family Therapist
Mr. Bong has been a Family & Marital Therapist, Trainer and Clinical Supervisor for over thirty years. In the last 18 years, he has been in private practice, having worked in the Public Sector (Ministry of Defence, SAF Counselling Centre) and Social Services. Mr. Bong is an external lecturer with the National Institute of Education, the Executive Counselling and Training Academy (Singapore and Swinburne University), Singapore Bible College and an adjunct trainer with Social Service Institute and the Family Resource and Training Institute (Singapore). In the last few years, Mr Bong has been appointed by the Ministry of Social and Family Development as one of its Master Practice Leaders to help enhance the professionalism of the Social Service sector.