A5007094126- Family and Disability Support Research
- Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Education and Islamic Studies
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Disability Education and Employment
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Socioeconomic Development in MENA
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Creative Drama in Education
James Cook University Singapore
2022-2024
University of Nottingham
2009
Abstract Background School counselling in the Asia Pacific region has experienced enormous development last few decades but faces many serious challenges as counsellors seek to respond needs of young people a complex and fast‐changing environment. Aims This article aimed explore school face finding clear identity sense purpose. Discussion We outline antecedents consequences weak counsellor identity. suggest that future rests on responding challenge robust by (1) adopting an ecological...
This article reports on a qualitative study that set out to understand stakeholders’ perception of the school counselling service in Singapore. Using semi-structured interviews, this explored perceptions three main stakeholder groups, namely teachers and counsellors working within schools those communities. Altogether, 19 interviews were conducted. Two key theme areas uncovered. First, stakeholders observed expected differing levels confidentiality for information obtained during...
Background: Children and young refugees often experience negative events that affect their mental health.Their caregivers may also be in the same predicament, implying teachers schools are a potential source of help support.However, most have little understanding health are, thus, clueless helping students.To address this need, newly developed one-day literacy programme was conducted among 68 refugee Malaysia.Methods: Participants learned symptoms issues children adolescents context...
Over the last decade, movement towards permanent presence of counsellors within schools has gathered pace in Singapore. As were introduced into more schools, there opportunities for their community-based counterparts such as social workers, youth workers and other counselling practitioners to work with them. Through semi-structured interviews, this study explored experiences perceptions agencies, specifically Family Service Centres, on school counselling. Community found be supportive...
School counselling is a growing service in Singapore. Having implemented services all the public schools for over half decade, it was timely to examine how teachers looked at school setting. Interviews with suggested their overall positiveness about Singapore schools. Teachers view as helpful addition because (1) extended more individual attention students; (2) offered potential source learn students through different perspective; and (3) counsellors could work parents families, especially...
Many refugee children have not only suffered from their negative past experiences but also faced challenges to cope with current difficulties and improve themselves for a better future. Education is strategy assist these in tackling difficulties, key factor ensuring the success of education quality teachers. This study uses job demands resource model as framework understand teachers at community learning centres Malaysia available resources, resources that need meet demands. Purposive...
School counselling is not an isolated school-based intervention but rather as part of a more holistic social wellbeing system where there are many stakeholders. Studies have examined students', school counsellors', teachers', and administrators' perceptions counselling. Research that focuses on the community counsellors rare. This paper reports quantitative survey study counsellors' in Singapore. Findings indicate some expectations such could offer family confidentiality be strengthened...
Because Malaysia is not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, children of refugees living in are deprived any formal education. Children taught mostly by themselves, many whom volunteers. Most community-based learning centers, which encounter academic and management problems, also sustained refugees. This qualitative study aims apply framework resources demands theory explore work encountered these refugees’ teachers whether they have enough meet demands, as centers self-supported or...
This article comprises reflections by nine members of the editorial board Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal Australia (PACJA) on impact coronavirus pandemic, encompassing personal, professional, political.
Research suggests that religious beliefs may contribute to abortion stigma, resulting in increased secrecy, reduced social support and help-seeking as well poor coping negative emotional consequences such shame guilt. This study sought explore the anticipated preferences difficulties of Protestant Christian women Singapore with regard a hypothetical scenario. Semi-structured interviews were conducted 11 self-identified recruited through purposive snowball sampling. The sample was largely...
Abstract Regarding the ordination of women to higher spiritual leadership positions in Anglican Church, existing studies have tended focus on attitudes and perceptions non-Asian countries regions, thereby affecting generalisability their results Asian such as Singapore. Working close this gap, a small exploratory study using semi-structured interviews was conducted Eight parishioners were interviewed, transcripts treated with thematic analysis. Overall, findings suggest seeming disconnect...