Marital First Responders
About this course
The Marital First Responder course is developed to enable participants to gain a deeper appreciation of their role as Marital First Responders (MFR) and equip them with core skills to perform their role effectively. Participants will learn about their role as an MFR and be exposed to the common marital issues faced by couples. They will learn how to communicate effectively with confiders to guide them to resolve their own marital conflicts by employing the following core skills – Listen, Empathise, Affirm and offer Perspective (L.E.A.P.) and Challenge, Advise and suggest Resources (C.A.R.).
Materials for this course are used with permission by The Doherty Relationship Institute.
What you will learn
- List common marital conflicts
- Distinguish between "hard" and "soft" problems
- Describe the ways to handle marital conflicts
- Describe intimate partner violence
- Describe the situation when a confider is contemplating divorce
- Explain the role of a "Marital First Responder (MFR)"
- Recognise the ten types of unhelpful behaviours of friends
- Apply the Level 1 core skills of an MFR - Listen, Empathise, Affirm, offer Perspective (L.E.A.P)
- Apply the Level 2 core skills of an MFR - Challenge, Advise, suggest Resources (C.A.R.)
- Explain how a Marital First Responder can maintain boundaries - Challenge, Advise, suggest Resources (C.A.R.)
Course Staff
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Dr Charles Sim, PhD Biography As the former Head of the Master of Counselling programme at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), Charles developed the Master of Counselling, specializing in Couple and Family Therapy (CFT) and the Graduate Diploma in Systemic Therapy programmes. He revamped the “Clinical Supervision in Counselling and Systemic Therapy” course, as well as taught and supervised graduate students in CFT and qualitative research methodology. ...Currently, Charles is an Associate Faculty Member at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), and also a Master Trainer for POTT/ lecturer for the Master of Clinical Mental Health's Psychotherapy (MCMHP) programme, Yoo Loo Lin School of Medicine, at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He designed and developed the online “Essentials of Clinical Supervision”, “Marital First Responder” (MFR) and the “Essentials of the Person-of-the-Therapist” (POTT) courses for UniLEARN-SUSS. He is presently supervising an online group of counsellors/ supervisors-in-training (SITs) at the Beijing Normal University Mental Health Service Centre, and is the Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Tianjin Normal University (TNU), China. Charles is a clinical member of the Association of Marital and Family Therapy (Singapore), and a fellow of the Asian Academy of Family Therapy (Hong Kong).
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