St. John's Counselling Service

January 2010 Program Launch!!

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Social Skills Small Group and 1:1 Programs

 

Over 35 years ago a commitment was made by St. John's Cathedral to provide both a spiritual and counselling connection with the Hong Kong community. Today that counselling commitment continues to grow in services and resources for Hong Kong's vibrant multi-cultural community at St. John's Counselling Service (SJCS) for children, teens, adults and organizations, irregardless of race, ethnic background, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, religious or faith.  We provide counselling services for Chinese, Malay, Spanish, French, and English speaking clients with our well educated and experienced counsellors who are from Hong Kong, U.S., U.K. Australia, South Africa, France, Canada, India and Taiwan. In other words, whether our clients are non-religious, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindi or any other faith, religion or ethnic/race background, our counselling services are available for any Hong Kong resident based upon a positive psychology model that focuses on growth and happiness.

Our Counselling - Workshops Philosophy
SJCS mission is "to empower the human spirit towards greater awareness in making choices for growth and happiness." Our mission is derived from over 20 years of research, clinical experience, and principles from positive psychology whereby a balance is sought after in our counselling sessions and special programs for kids, teens and adults with empowering each of our clients to i) better manage and reduce their anguish (i.e. the healing the unpleasant life) and  ii) acquire and practice optimal thinking and positive behaviors (i.e. learning the happy life).

Regarding our children and teens, academic and clinic research shows that happiness breeds success. In other words, happiness can start contributing to achievement and success early in life. Specifically, children who experience positive-nurturing attachments with their parents, siblings and others will feel good about themselves and subsequently perform better at school. Furthermore, children and teens who are in happier moods acquire more quickly appropriate social skills, have freedom from excessive worrying, are able to become resilient and develop a positive self-esteem. Concurrently, happiness also boosts mental performance in spelling, math, reading and problem solving skills, that when performed more successfully by our children boosts their self-esteem and confidence. In short, happy kids tend to perform better, faster and more successful in a learning and social environment.

Another key happiness ingredient for our children and teens is the ability to develop and sustain personal relationships at school and after-school activities. Children who tend to make friends easily and get along with others in a classroom, playground or organized activity early in their lives breed social and emotional competence that follows them throughout their adult life. Few adults can lead a happy and successful life who cannot get along with others in a work and social setting. Thus, happy children (and adults) generally are more easily able to make themselves understood by others and as well, are better at listening to others.

Social Skills Small Group and 1:1 Program Details

Program Facilitators
Our Social Skills Small Group and 1:1 Program is designed to allow kids and teens to either enroll in a small group setting or in a private 1:1 setting to further improve upon their social skills for school and other social settings. The program is provided year round and kids and teens may return as often as they desire. Our Social Skills program is led by a wonderful and caring team of  counselling psychologists who have extensive experience working with children and adolescents in schools and clinic settings:  Jackie Li (MSocSc), Anson Lam (MSocSc - Play Therapy), Sonia Basili (M Ed Counselling) and Hera Leung (MSocSc). Our facilitators will be incorporating well proven art and play therapy techniques coupled with psycho-education activities in a safe and caring place to gently guide children into building positive relationships and learning how to effectively express themselves.

Social Skills Program Topics

Ø Increasing confidence and positive self-esteem

Ø Developing positive identity and confident autonomy through self-discovery group art-play activities

Ø Enhancing coping skills for peer pressure and life's bump in the roads

Ø Learning how to be a part of a group (team player and leadership roles)

Ø Managing bullying and teasing settings

Ø Identifying and appropriately express feelings

Ø Build-up communication skills

Ø Developing and maintaining friendships

Social Skills January 2010 Program Details

Program A - Small Group: There are a total of six (6) scheduled sessions, each session lasting one hour and thirty minutes.

Group A is for 5 - 8 year olds with scheduled workshops on Monday and Wednesday from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm. Commencement is 18 January 2010 with a total of six (6) sessions: January 18, 20, 25, 27 and February 1, 3. Groups are in English and Cantonese.

Group B is for 9 - 13 year olds with scheduled workshops on Tuesday and Thursday from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm. Commencement is 19 January 2010 with a total of six (6) sessions: January 19, 21, 26, 28 and February 2, 4. Groups are in English and Cantonese.

Program B - Individual Sessions: Enrollment is open all year round! The total number of sessions will depend on an individual assessment of that child or teen to determine how many sessions are required to reach the goals of the Social Skills Program. Program B is for those kids and teens who would benefit from a more personalized - 1:1 program. Start date can be immediate, completion date can be flexible depending on the goals and other activities being pursued in the individualized social skills program.                  

Venue
St. John's Counselling Service - Hong Kong

Medium of Instruction/Materials
1:1 and small groups can be conducted in English and/or Chinese.

Registration
Call us at (852) 2525 7207/08 for registration/information or email your request for more information to info@sjcshk.com. Registration is open all year round for the Social Skills Program.

Social Skills Program Fees

Program A: Small Group: Fees are $3,000.00 per child with early bird registration. Fees are $3,400 per child after the early bird registration deadline date. Fees include all materials, snacks and Certificate of Achievement upon completion of the program. Fees can be paid in cash and/or cheque upon registration. Please make cheques out to "St. John's Counselling Service."

Program B: Individual Sessions: Fees are $400 per session. Fees include all materials, snacks and Certificate of Achievement upon completion of the program. Fees can be paid in cash and/or cheque upon registration. Please make cheques out to "St. John's Counselling Service."

SPECIAL NOTE: Program A: Group Due to limited space, all fees are non-refundable. Any cancellations, the fees shall be applied towards other St. John's Counselling Service programs and services, to include Program B - Individual Sessions.

Our Affiliations
As an Organizational Member of BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy) we are bound by its Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy, the Ethical Guidelines for Researching Counselling and Psychotherapy (where organizations undertake research) and subject to the Professional Conduct Procedure for the time being in force. St. John's Counselling Service is also a professional member of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) that allows us to be intimately involved with the most updated tools and techniques for kid and teen counselling services.

SJCS is also in partnership with Hong Kong University HKU Family Institute, City University (Hong Kong), Monash University (Australia) and the Shue Yan University (Hong Kong) - University of New England (Australia) master's degree in counselling programs as an internship placement centre for their students to acquire advanced counselling skills and knowledge as so provided by SJCS positive psychology counselling model and extended years of experience in counselling.

Email: info@sjcshk.com