Training

Online Professional Courses

Training The Trainers (ToT)

Face to Face Professional Courses

Here previous training that we already done:

MARA Online Professional Courses

UMFRDC have collaborators with Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) in 2020

This collaboration has resulted in the implementation of two online professional courses:

Professional Certification Course on the Management of Mental Health Cases
3-day course on cross-cultural counselling.

Professional certification course on the management of mental health cases was conducted from 13 July to 14 September 2020 via Google Meet application.

Its objectives are

to improve participants’ level of mental health literacy
to master the skills of administering selected psychological instrument to assess mental health
to plan and execute group counselling sessions based on the high anxiety treatment intervention
to develop the standard operating procedure (SOP) guidelines in managing mental health cases. The course comprised 12 modules and 21 participants, who are MRSM counsellors, were involved in the course. A total of 24 hours was the duration of the course. At the end of the course, participants had to take a comprehensive online test to check their knowledge, understanding, and skills related to the 12 topics.

The second online professional course entitled, cross-cultural counselling, was conducted on 11 to 13 August 2020 via Google Meet too. The course objectives are three-fold:

to enhance participants’ knowledge on diversity factors and cross-cultural issues in their workplace
to sharpen their cross-cultural skills in dealing with MARA students who come from diverse cultural backgrounds
to master the specialized skills in handling clients with LGBT issues. A total of 30 participants, who are professional counsellors at Kolej Profesional MARA, took part in the course. The course content covers 8 modules these modules were part of the output from FRGS research entitled, development of a continuous professional development training module based on multicultural counselling competency for professional counsellors.

UMFRDC aspires to organise and conduct more professional training for mental health professionals. Besides training, other focal areas of UMFRDC activities are education, psychology, and counselling services, and consultancy with education sector.

MOH NRPA Training Consultancy

UMFRDC has been invited by the National Pharmacy Regulatory Agency (NPRA) of the Ministry of Health to conduct a 2-day workshop on the management of emotional crisis to their staff at their vicinity.

The course was conducted on 17 and 18 September 2020 and its duration was 16 hours, and the contents covered 8 modules. A total of 30 participants took part in the workshop.

The objectives of the course were to educate participants on the psychology of emotion and stress as well as to train them in the management of excessive emotions and stress, especially in the workplace.

On the first day of the training, participants were introduced to the concept and theories of emotion, stress, and job stress. They also learnt some useful tools to assess and screen their stress level. Most activities were brief lectures, group discussions, and fun quizzes.

On the second day of the training, a more action-oriented approach was used. Participants were introduced to some strategies and techniques in managing emotion and stress such as therapeutic journaling, deep relaxation technique, and modern tai chi, among others. The day was filled up with lots of practical activities and the participants enjoyed themselves while learning the self-care strategies in combating bad stress.

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