Catfishing - Understanding and Guiding Young People in the Social Media Age - 27 Sept 2021

About Your Speaker

Mr. Vik is a well sought after local trainer with over 16 years experience in training and teaching professionals from the healthcare, social service, enforcement and various academic fields. He has also been in the counselling field for 19 years, spending 3 years in the social service industry and 16 years in the addictions and healthcare field. He has an academic background in both counselling and psychology, teaching at the Singapore University of Social Sciences for over 12 years. He is currently doing a workgroup project with the Ministry of Health looking at using Motivational Interviewing and Change Talk to work with individuals who have diabetes or pre-diabetes and teaching healthcare educators to better engage and motivate patients within hospitals and polyclinics. He is an executive committee member with the Association of Professionals Specialising in Addictions Counselling, a board member for the Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association and a council member for the National Council Against Drug Abuse. 

A Course Brief

The social media age is here to stay. Families and young people are the target as we move from communal and group based patterns of social interaction to digital and privatised modes. This change is colossal. The arena of close, personal and intimate bonds with dad, mum, siblings and close friends is replaced with the internet and cyberspace. When play is relaxed by ultra privacy, something snaps in human relationships - the sacred is replaced by the secular. That’s the dilemma in a nutshell. The social problems we see - phising, sexual grooming, cyberthreats, cyberbuying and more. How do we deal with guiding the young and rescuing them from lostness in a therapeutic way is pivotal.

Topic Outline

• Understanding Young People
• Why Social Media is So Potent
• Problematic Internet Use
• Dangers of the Net
• Cyberrelational issues and Cyber Sex
• Virtual Online Relationships
• Gaming
• Guiding the Young Through the Maze
• Preserving Ties That Matter

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Course Format

This course is conducted online using ZOOM. Register here on our website and we will send you an invitation link via email to the zoom meeting before the day of the course.