Basic Certificate in Schema and Movie Therapy | 1-3 September 2010 (Wed-Fri)

Basic Certificate in
Schema and Movie Therapy
(Pre-Approved for 60% VCF Funding)
1-3 September 2010 | Singapore

This Basic Certificate in Schema and Movie Therapy^TM Course is specially designed for social workers, psychologists, counsellors, and family educators who have an interest in expanding their skills to help "difficult to treat patients".

Schema therapy is a powerful integrated model of therapy that has been highly successful in treating patients with long term chronic psychological Axis-II disorders, including borderline personality disorder. Many professionally trained Schema therapists have had huge successes in Holland and Germany in treating such patients.

This certification will help prospective participants to reassess their difficult-to-treat patients, especially cases which need a "breakthrough". Even though participants will not be qualified schema therapists after taking this course, they will be equipped to integrate schema therapy principles into their present counselling approach.

Participants will be trained in the administering of Dr. Jeffrey Young's Schema Inventory. This will enable participants to make use of one of the most helpful aspects of Schema Therapy, which is its very systematic way of assessing patients' dysfunctional thoughts, rather than leaving it to the therapists' own intuition and experience. This provides for accurate assessment and diagnosis of patients, and therefore a proper treatment plan relating to their current life problems.
Participants will also learn to select appropriate movies that are related to their patients' life issues. A combination of schema therapy with the usage of movies will be able to uniquely offer solutions that are not readily available in the local context.

Click here to download brochure in PDF.

Teaching Methods and Tools

This course is an introduction to Schema & Movie Therapy^TM. The teaching methods and tools will include:

Lectures and teaching using Movie Therapy^TM (a method which employs movie scenes from
movies with copyright permission from MPLC - Motion Picture Licensing Corporation, Los
Angeles - in order to help patients develop selfawareness, etc)

Lectures with power point on schema & movie therapy basic concepts

Role play with other trainees and instructor(s)

Empowering relationship skills between therapists and patient

Growing in self awareness

Those completing the course will have an understanding of the 18 schemas and the core emotional needs. They will also be able to administer and interpret professionally developed schema based questionnaires, identify maladaptive coping styles, and be equipped to use appropriate movies in their work without contravening copyright laws.

Who should attend
Social workers, psychologists, counsellors, and family educators who have an interest in expanding

their skills to help "difficult to treat patients" or patients with long-term chronic psychological disorders.

Participants who have successfully completed this basic course will be eligible to enter the Schema Therapy certification program, that will be offered by ISST through Mr. Louis in the future (see http://www.isst-online.com)

Date/Venue:
Date: 1-3 September 2010 (Wednesday - Friday)
Time: 9:00am-5:30pm (3 full days)
Venue: Nusantara Room, Second Level
1 Edgefield Walk, Singapore 828850

Course Fee:
S$ 966.00 (Before subsidy); OR
S$ 386.50 (After 60% funding from VCF) - applicable to eligible participants
VCF Reference No. PA0360/FY09
Funding Quantum: 60% / Category: Professional
For more information about VCF, please click here >>

To register for the course:

Download and complete the Registration Form and email it back to event@louiscts.com
Upon receipt of your registration, we will send you a confirmation and invoice within 3-5 working days.

For more information and other enquiries
please contact John and Karen at event@louiscts.com
or call mobile phone number: +65 93868630

About the Speaker

Mr. John Philip Louis has a Masters Degree in Counselling from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and he trained as a Schema Therapist in Manhattan. At present, he is the first and so far, the only schema therapist living in Southeast Asia to have been trained personally by Dr. Jeffrey Young, the founder of schema therapy.

John Louis is a member of the International Society for Schema Therapy (ISST), and is recognized by the ISST to practice, supervise, train and rate others in schema therapy. An active member of the Singapore Association for Counselling, he conducts marriage and parenting workshops in Singapore and around the world. Married for over 22 years, John and his wife recently published a book about marriage entitled "I Choose Us". John is the father of two active teenagers; he loves reading, watching movies with his wife, and spending time with his kids.

John and his wife, Karen were interviewed by Mr Steven Chia and Ms Suzanne Jung of
Channel NewsAsia in Primetime Morning. Click here to watch >>

We look forward to see you at the training!

Louis Counselling and Training Services