Working with Families (BGC)
About This Course
The Certificate in Basic Gerontological Counselling – Working with Families course is to enable learners who service clients in Community Care spaces like Senior Activity Centres / Active Aging Centres / Active Aging Care Hubs and work with Eldercare professionals including Case Managers, Nurses, Allied Health workers volunteers to have a good understanding on family dynamics, changing trend on family relationships, creating and using a genogram to identify family relationships, and acquire effective communications skills when dealing with the older adults and their family members.
This course is administered by Hua Mei Training Academy, an initiative of Tsao Foundation.
What You'll Learn
1. Use Family systems theory to understand purpose of working with family, relationship patterns, its history and impact on current relationship.
2. Apply communication skills when working with older persons and their families.
3. Discuss the changing trends on family structure.
4. Use Genogram as a graphical representation of the family relationship.
Entry Requirements
Our target audience are those who are 21 years old and above with at least 2 years of working experi-ence in any industry. The required skills and knowledge for this course are as follows:
Education:
● be able to listen and speak English at a proficiency level equivalent to the Employability Skills Sys-tem (ESS) Literacy Level 3
● be able to read and write English at a proficiency level equivalent to the Employability Skills System (ESS) Literacy Level 3
● be able to manipulate numbers at a proficiency level equivalent to Employability Skills System (ESS) Numeracy Level 3
● Have basic languages / dialects relevant to the target client group.
● Have prior working experience with older adults will be an added advantage
● Be motivated to learn and have positive attitude towards work and commitments.
● Have interest in community and social work.
Required years of experience in relevant Domain
- No prior experience required.