Course Catalog

Catalog of Self-Paced Courses at Khitthit Academy:

Workplace Mental Health Level 1

ကိုယ့်ရဲ့လုပ်ငန်းခွင်မှာ ဝန်ထမ်းတွေရဲ့ စိတ်ဖိစီးမှုတွေကို ဘယ်လိုကိုင်တွယ်လုပ်ရမလဲ၊ Management Level မှာ လုပ်ကိုင်နေတဲ့ ဝန်ထမ်းတွေအနေနဲ့ ကိုယ့် team က junior တွေအတွက် စိတ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ ဘယ်လိုအကူညီပေးလို့ရမလဲ စတဲ့အကြောင်းရာတွေနဲ့ပတ်သက်ပြီး ခေါင်းခဲနေရပြီလား။ ဒီလိုပြဿနာတွေဖြေရှင်းနိုင်ဖို့အတွက် ခေတ်သစ်အကယ်ဒမီ (Khitthit Academy) မှ company ၊organization ၊အဖွဲ့အစည်းနဲ့အတူအလုပ်လုပ်ကိုင်နေရတဲ့သူတွေအတွက် အကျိုးရှိစေမယ့် professional development course လေးတစ်ခုကိုမိတ်ဆက်ပေးချင်ပါတယ်။ Self-paced အတန်းဖြစ်တာကြောင့် Google Classroom မှာ ဆရာမများကိုယ်တိုင် သင်ကြားပို့ချပေးထားတဲ့ Video Record များကို တစ်နေ့တာအတွင်း အားတဲ့အချိန် ဘယ်အချိန်မဆို ဝင်ရောက်လေ့လာနိုင်ပြီး နှစ်ပတ်တစ်ကြိမ် ဆရာမနဲ့ Zoom Guided Session မှာ ပြန်လည်ဆွေးနွေးသွားနိုင်မှာဖြစ်ပါတယ် ။ 

Introduction to Mental Health Disorders

This is a self-paced professional development course where you will learn the various common mental disorders and mental health problems that people face and those for which people may come into our counseling rooms for help in recovering and healing. However, we will not learn about how to diagnose as it’s beyond the scope of a lay counselor to do so, but we will explore the symptoms and signs of such disorders so that you can recognize the level of care your clients may need, and respond to them effectively.

Assessment for Psychosocial Support Counselors

This is a self-paced professional development course where you will learn the importance of assessment for counseling and the ethical way to use assessments. We will cover several assessments counselors can use to help with understanding their clients and planning how to provide help and interventions. We will not learn any assessments for Diagnosis as it’s beyond the scope of a lay counselor but we will explore assessments that do screen for symptoms of some common mental health conditions. 

Counseling for Relationships

This a self-paced professional development course will help you assist persons you are helping with navigating relationship problems, and facilitate their learning of new counseling skills for relationship building, communication and negotiation in the context of close and intimate relationships. This will NOT be a course about couple counseling, which requires another set of skills and knowledge to provide proper couple counseling. The online course with its assignments is expected to take 4 hours to complete in total.

Professionalism for Counselors

This self-paced professional development course is for all those who are working in mental health and psychosocial support roles, such as counselors, emotional support providers, psychosocial support workers, etc. The course will introduce concepts on professional skills, standards of care, ethical codes, “do no harm”, scope of practice, scope of competency, need for consultation and skill development, and cultural competency, including of different age, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities, etc. The online course with its assignments is expected to take 6 hours to complete in total.

Stress Management

This self-paced personal development course will explore self-care strategies as well as stress management skills so that you can handle daily stress and cope with crises at work, school and life. You will learn various relaxation techniques, interpersonal conflict resolution methods, communication skills, anger management approaches, motivational tools, and mood stabilizing strategies. You will also develop a wellness action plan for yourself that will include a healthy lifestyle framework. The online course with its assignments is expected to take 3 hours to complete in total.

Who Am I: Developing Personal and Social Identities

This self-paced personal development course is an exploration of personal identity and social roles, including personal strengths and interests. The gender role expectations and how they impact personal identity, values, beliefs and relationships will also be explored. Healthy sense of selves and expanded vision of social roles will be developed for each learner so as to empower self, build confidence, and develop socially conscious selves that will prepare one for a purposeful and meaningful life. The online course with its assignments is expected to take 4 hours to complete in total. (The course will be open for enrollment in second semester of 2020)

What is Love: Ingredients of Healthy Relationships

This self-paced personal development course will educate the learners about knowledge and skills that are foundations to what build healthy relationships with parents, siblings, children, friends, lovers, partners in marriages, coworkers, and so on. Topics to be covered in the course are personal boundaries, self agency, respect of self and others, gender role dynamics, social responsibility, communication skills, etc. Signs of dysfunction in relationships and how to effectively resolve them will be explored as well. The online course with its assignments is expected to take 3 hours to complete in total.