Village Hotel Katong
About Your Speaker
Rose Faquir holds more than 13 years of experience working with young persons and adults from various cultural and societal background. She holds special interest in helping trauma survivors to resolve their past so they can be free to embrace their future. Rose is the founder and the clinical director of Restoring Peace Counselling and Consultancy Pte Ltd, a private mental health clinic which provide counselling and psychotherapy for various mental health challenges, including trauma, anxiety, grief, depression and personality disorder.
Rose holds several accreditations, including a Registered Clinical Counsellor and a Registered Clinical Supervisor with Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC), a Certified Substance Abused Therapist with Asia Pacific Certification Board (APCB), Certified (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)¬ Practitioner with EMDR Singapore, A Certified Choice Theory Reality (CTRT) Practitioner with the William Glasser Institute and a Certified Sandplay and Symbol Works Therapist with Expressive Therapies Australia. She holds a Master of Arts in counselling from the TCA College, a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling from the University of Wales, a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Supervision from the Swinburne University of Technology and a Bachelor in social science (community works and applied counselling) from the Edith Cowan University.
Course Brief
Childhood and teenagehood is arguably the most vulnerable period of a person’s life as children are highly dependent on adults to satisfy their basic needs, which make them particularly susceptible to trauma and potentially traumatic experience in their life. Most young people experience at least one traumatic event, such as failing to achieve the desired academic result, peer rejection, bullying or family issues. It is difficult for young people to open up about their traumatic experiences to an adult because they are often misunderstood or minimised. However, prolonged exposure to trauma can confuse young people and significantly affect their ability to cope psychologically.
This workshop aims to help parents, teachers, caregivers or people who work with young people to have insights into the young person’s traumatic experiences. It seeks to clarify some of the misconceptions and myths about trauma in the mental health space and to replace these with a better understanding of what trauma is and how it can affect young people.
OUTLINE
• Understanding trauma
• Different types of trauma
• Impact on traumatic experience on young persons
• Identifying signs of trauma
• Responding and supporting young trauma survivors