Maximising Support to Students

Workshop on Maximising Support to Students to Overcome Emotional Stress in Industrial Attachment
Date and Time	Venue	Facilitator	No. of Places
15 June 2017 (Thursday) 9:30am – 12:30pm	Room 303 Caritas Bianchi College of Careers 18 Chui Ling Road Tseung Kwan O (Tiu Keng Leng MTR Station, Exit B)	Ms YEUNG Kam Chu, Constance Senior Training and Counselling Consultant Human Empowerment and Achievement Training Caritas Family Service	50

Medium of Instruction

Chinese (Cantonese) supplemented with English terms

Target Participants

Academic and teaching staff from vocational and professional education and training (VPET) institutions and higher education institutions, VPET workplace mentors, VPET stakeholders and general public are welcome.

Free admission

Workshop Outline

This workshop aims to equip teachers’ skills in handling students who exhibit emotional and / or behavioural problems in their industrial attachment by using the Integrative Family and Systems Treatment (I-FAST) model. I‐FAST is developed with the purpose of developing an evidence‐based common factors treatment model that addresses practice realities of social service agencies, embraces social workers’ existing expertise, and empowers the development of expertise at the agency level. Building on evidence-based literature regarding effective treatments for this population, I‐FAST identifies three core treatment components that can be integrated into a coherent treatment protocol for working with children, adolescents and families at risk. This workshop provides fieldwork teachers a framework to understand the emotional arousal of students in their industrial attachment. It also equips them with possible intervention skills to handle students’ emotional stress during their industrial attachment.

On completion of this workshop, the participants would be able to:

• discuss appropriate approaches in helping students to overcome their emotional stress in industrial attachment by
  using I-FAST; and
  
• reflect on their approaches in handling students who exhibit emotional stress in industrial attachment.

About the Facilitator

Ms Yeung is a senior practitioner, supervisor, lecturer, trainer and fieldwork instructor. She completed her Master of Social Work in McGill University, Canada where she studied and practised family therapy and solution focused therapy in the fieldwork placement. She also completed a Master of Philosophy in Social Science at The University of Hong Kong with Dr Lee Wai Yung as the supervisor of her dissertation on marital counselling.

In 2015, Ms Yeung was accredited as the Caritas Certified I-FAST Supervisor. Recently, she is providing ongoing individual and group clinical supervision to over 20 units in Caritas Family Service and other agencies.

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