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Our Services
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Summary of Our Services
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Addiction Services (of any kind) |
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Complementary Therapies Program |
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Adolescent Drug Services |
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Crisis Counseling & Stabilization Unit |
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Adult Community Support Services |
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Facilities & Maintenance |
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Adult Mental Health Care |
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Gambling Addiction |
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Adult Substance Abuse Program |
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Grief Counseling |
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Anonymous and Support Group |
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Group Support |
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Assertive Community Treatment Programs for Adults |
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Counseling in Homes |
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Children & Family Mental Health Care |
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Information Services |
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Children's Substance Abuse Programs |
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Psychological Services |
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Child and Family Psychological Services |
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Social Clubs |
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Client Services |
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Support Services |
Our Goals, Objectives, and Competencies
Our goals and objectives in summary are to assist our clients toward
full restoration into normalcy so that they will be able to return to
society in shortest possible time frame.
F.A.M.I.L.Y. cc offers several options for therapy including individual, couples, group and family counseling.
We also conduct courses in Counseling. In particular, we have a
Advanced Diploma in Crisis Counseling to augment the training and
practical skills of counselors.
In light of the fact that we also run internship programmes in F.A.M.I.L.Y. cc
we administer therapeutic and counseling services with our staff
counselors and interns (albeit, with the written consent of the
clients).
Psychotherapy and Counseling
Direct treatment of clients is the cornerstone of our counseling and
training programmes. All staff counselors provide individual, couples
and group counseling. Accordingly, the (training) intern is provided
with experience in a number of treatment modalities, including crisis
intervention and individual short- and long-term treatment. The intern
may expect that about 50% of their time will be spent in direct
clinical service provision. A typical weekly schedule in the fall
semester involves 12 - 14 individual clinical hours and 1 - 2 therapy
groups.
Psychological Assessment
Psychological assessment is primarily done through the interviewing of
incoming clients during the initial psychological assessment. During the
clinical interview, the intern is responsible for delineating the
presenting problem, assessing the severity and need for immediate or
crisis intervention, providing appropriate diagnoses and initial
clinical impressions, and recommendations for treatment. Training in
diagnostic interviewing takes place during the August orientation
though didactic presentations and observation. Interns typically
provide 3 - 4 hours of intake interviews per week.
Objective and projective psychological tests (administered by qualified
personnel) may also be used to aid clinical and/or career assessment
and the therapy process. Psychological testing is addressed in intern
seminars. Additional training may occur throughout the year for interns
who wish to receive additional testing experience. Testing may be
supervised by one of the intern's supervisors or by another staff or
consulting psychologist chosen by the intern.
Crisis Intervention
Each staff counselor and intern provides 1-3 hours per week of walk-in
crisis intervention during regular Counseling Services hours to
students who require immediate attention due to significant lethality
risk or deterioration of functioning. Each staff and intern also
participate in a rotating after-hours on-call system several weeks
throughout the year. Training in risk assessment and crisis
intervention takes place during the August orientation, intern
seminars, through didactic presentations and observing/shadowing staff.
Outreach and Consultation
The Counseling Services has an active and extensive outreach program,
providing a wide variety of workshops and other presentations to the
campus community. Interns are regular participants in this programming
providing a minimum of 3-4 workshops each semester. Topics are
numerous, and open to intern interests and expertise. Interns have
opportunities to provide mental health consultation to university
students, faculty, staff, and parents, or develop consultative
relationships with various university organizations (academic
departments, student service offices, student groups). This may involve
such activities as working with university faculty, staff, or students
on crisis management and intervention (e.g. dealing with a disturbed
student in a class, responding to a suicidal student, processing the
death of a student), providing training workshops on a variety of
topics (e.g. lethality assessment, conflict management), or aiding
better understanding and communication among staff personnel. Interns
also have the opportunity to participate as a Counseling Services
liaison/consultant on university committees, where they will have
regular contact with non-Counseling Services university staff.
Additionally, interns respond to phone consultation requests and
emergency crisis consultation meetings with university students and
staff. Training in outreach and consultation takes place during
university orientation time slots, intern seminars, and working as
co-presenters or co-consultants with staff.
In some instances, psychology interns participate in the provision of
supervision to counseling practicum and extern trainees throughout the
year. Training in the provision of clinical supervision takes place
during school orientation seminars, directed readings, and weekly
meta-supervision with the Center Director throughout the year.
Training Consultation & Services
Rev Dr Casey Chua has in recent years been a sought after lecturer in
various psychology, counseling, theological and therapeutic subjects
(in various institutions of higher learning), inter-alia
A. COUNSELING SUBJECTS
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Principles and Practice of Counseling |
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Grief Counseling |
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Family & Marriage Counseling |
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Anger Management |
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Substance Abuse Counseling |
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Psychology and Counseling Intergrates |
B. PSYCHOLOGY SUBJECTS
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Principles of Psychology |
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Group Processes |
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Interpersonal Behaviour |
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Behavioural Sciences in Management |
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Business Motivation |
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Therapeutic Principles of Clients |
For a review of his student’s evaluation, please click here.
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