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Professional Certificate in Child Assessments and Interventions
Program Overview
Professional Certificate in Child Assessments and Interventions
The Professional Certificate in Child Assessments and Interventions is designed to equip learners with the necessary competencies to work with children. The program focuses on interpreting common cognitive assessments, conducting interviews, practicing evidence-based clinical interventions, and developing interpersonal and relational skills.
Overview
The program aims to provide learners with the following competencies:
- Interpreting common cognitive assessments under supervision
- Conducting interviews with parents, teachers, and making school observations
- Practicing evidence-based clinical interventions for childhood anxiety and depression
- Practicing behavioral management and parenting strategies for childhood Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, and Attention-Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Recognizing different types and levels of crisis and developing skills in crisis assessment and intervention
- Developing interpersonal and relational skills
Mode of Delivery and Assessment
Mode of Delivery
The mode of delivery is face-to-face workshops with didactic teaching, reflective practice group discussions, and a problem-based learning project. Virtual seminars will only be held where COVID-19 restrictions preclude the possibility of face-to-face sessions.
Assessment
Learners will be assessed in the following ways:
- Group presentations
- Reflection assignments
- In-class quizzes
Entry Requirements
The entry requirements for the component workshops and the professional certificates are as follows:
- A psychology degree with honours (a psychology degree without honours and other qualifications are accepted on a case-by-case basis)
- A personal statement (no more than one page)
- One research/clinical reference
Priority is given to applicants currently working as associate psychologists, behavioral specialists, and autism therapists who:
- Are 1-2 years into their present entry-level jobs
- Require continuous professional development
- Hope to improve their readiness for a graduate applied psychology program
The courses are also tailored to qualified psychologists interested in professional development.
Application
The application process involves the following:
- Professional Certificate | Course Reference Number | Workshops | Application Links
- Child Assessments and Interventions | TGS- | Workshop I: Child Assessments in Clinical Psychology |
- TGS- | Workshop II: Child Interventions in Clinical Psychology |
- Course application closes 2 weeks prior to course commencement.
- Every professional certificate comprises two unique workshops. Learners will be awarded a professional certificate when they complete both workshops and apply to the NUS Department of Psychology for the professional certificate.
- The maximum candidature period that learners must complete both workshops to be awarded the professional certificate is 24 months.
- Learners can choose not to stack both workshops into a professional certificate, but register for single workshops.
- There is no limit to the number of workshops that learners can attend.
Course Fees
The course fees for the Professional Certificate in Child Assessments and Interventions are as follows:
- Singapore Citizens | Singapore PRs | Enhanced Training Support for SMEs | International Participants
- 39 years old or younger | 40 years or older eligible for MCES
- TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC | $6,474.60
- Total Nett Programme Fee Payable, Including GST, after additional funding from the various funding schemes is applied for each of the above workshops.
- Learners must pass all assessment components to be eligible for SSG funding. Failing which, full course fees (incl. GST) will be payable.
- GST shall apply at prevailing rates.
- All self-sponsored Singaporeans aged 25 and above can use their SkillsFuture Credit to pay for course fees.
Course Structure and Details
Workshop I: Child Assessments in Clinical Psychology
Course Synopsis
The workshop offers participants the opportunity to gain fundamental knowledge and skills in child assessment and psychometric concepts, methodologies, and theories. Attendees will learn various approaches to data collection in child assessment, including standardized testing, interviews, and observations, while using multi-modal approaches to obtain background information from parents, caregivers, and teachers.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this workshop, participants are expected to achieve the following:
- Attain basic knowledge of child assessment and psychometric concepts, theories, and methodologies (including distinguishing between different types and purposes of tests)
- Understand various approaches to data collection in child assessment (including standardized testing, interviews, observations)
- Employ multi-modal approaches of interview and observations to obtain necessary background information from relevant informants (e.g., parents, caregivers, teachers)
- Understand and interpret common psychological assessment instruments under the supervision of a trained psychologist
- Explain the outcome of the assessment, under the supervision of a trained psychologist, in a clear manner and with appropriate language
- Assessing risk under the supervision of a trained psychologist
- Identify diagnostic criteria of Intellectual Disability, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Specific Learning Disorders
- Discuss diagnostic formulation with a trained psychologist
- Propose recommendations for educational placement and intervention-planning under the supervision of a trained psychologist
- Understand report writing structure
- Comply with ethical principles, code of conduct, legal and regulatory requirements in documentation, record-keeping and storage
- Understand limitations of confidentiality of reports and client records
Dates and Time
- Day 1: TBC in 2025
- Day 2: TBC in 2025
- Day 3: TBC in 2025 Classes will be conducted from 9 am to 5 pm.
Venue
Classes will be conducted face-to-face in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS.
About The Trainer
Ms Ong Jiehan Jamie Instructor, National University of Singapore
Jamie is a registered psychologist, an approved Clinical Supervisor with the Singapore Register of Psychologists and a member of the Singapore Psychological Society. She has extensive experience working with children and adolescents with developmental disorders and psychiatric conditions both in a hospital and community setting. Additionally, Jamie is teaching and provides clinical supervision to psychology students at the National University of Singapore.
Workshop II: Child Interventions in Clinical Psychology
Course Synopsis
This workshop is an opportunity for participants to advance their skills in evidence-based interventions for children in mainstream school. The workshop covers a range of important topics, including key psychological intervention theories and frameworks, goal setting and collaboration with clients and their caregivers, and the application of evidence-based interventions such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this workshop, participants are expected to achieve the following:
- Understand key psychological intervention theories and frameworks that underpin evidence-based interventions
- Learning to set appropriate intervention goals and agreeing these with clients and their caregivers
- Learn and apply different types of evidence-based interventions (including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and simple clinical treatment protocols that is grounded in formulation under the supervision of a trained psychologist
- Learn general principals of parenting training and gain basic knowledge of parenting and behavioural management skills
- Understand and recognise the role and importance of a therapeutic relationship in professional practice
- Gain awareness and recognise ethics and cultural diversity in intervention implementations
- Develop interpersonal skills to engage and build rapport with child clients and their caregivers to enhance therapy outcome and communicate the intervention process
- Identify and assess different levels and types of crises using a crisis intervention framework and learn skills to provide crisis intervention
Dates and Time
- Day 1: TBC in 2025
- Day 2: TBC in 2025
- Day 3: TBC in 2025 Classes will be conducted from 9 am to 5 pm.
Venue
Classes will be conducted face-to-face in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS.
About The Trainer
Ms Carolyn Kee Consultant Psychologist, Ki Psychology
Carolyn has 25 years of experience treating children and adolescents who have difficulties with stress, anxiety and depression, panic attacks, grief, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder and behavioural issues.
She worked as a psychologist at the Institute of Mental Health's (IMH) Child Guidance Clinic (CGC) for 20 years, from 1995 to 2015. Her work includes psychological assessments, individual and group therapy, consultation with partner agencies, training and supervision of psychologists, research, public mental health education and emergency behaviour management. She was also supervisor and co-director of the team that worked with victims of trauma and youth at risk.
She has authored books on mental health conditions and published articles in medical and psychological journals, magazines and newsletters. Her illustrated children's books on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and eating disorders are available at IMH and other helping agencies. Her passion for training and mentoring fellow child psychology and clinical practice professionals earned her a National Healthcare Group Teaching Award for Allied Health Educators in 2014.
