STPMWS - WSQ-CERTIFIED TRAINING IN PEER-TO-PEER MENTAL WELL-BEING SUPPORT @ WORK

Course Overview

The course aims to equip individuals with peer supporting and basic psychological first aid skills so as to provide adequate mental well-being support and interventions to assist distressed colleagues and peers. You can look forward to a curriculum that has been crafted by trained professionals from the Singapore Anglican Community Services, in consultation with the Agency of Integrated Care (AIC) and Institute of Mental Health (IMH).

This course is jointly put together by Young NTUC and NTUC LearningHub, and supported by the Workplace Safety and Health Council (WSHC). Young NTUC is also part of the Youth Mental Well-Being Network (YMWB), which is supported by the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF), Ministry of Education (MOE) and Ministry of Health (MOH).

This course is also a key response to the Tripartite Advisory on Mental Well-Being at Workplaces announced in November 2020. We envision to create a community of certified peer supporters who can be friends, colleagues, peers that individuals can look to if they feel that they are mentally distressed and need a listening ear, or support in the workplace. Be part of this meaningful initiative today.

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Recognise the signs and symptoms of mental health that may affect their behavioural emotions and personal effectiveness at work
• Self-examine own’s mental health state and stressors affecting self and apply preventive and proactive technique, using a holistic self-care framework.
• Support peers in distress using coaching and micro counselling skills
• Facilitate the peer’s well-being through use of resources to maintain personal health and well-being.

Pre-requisites

This course has no pre-requisites.

• Hardware & Software
  This course will be conducted as a Virtual Live Class (VLC) via Zoom platform. Participants must own a zoom account and have a laptop or a desktop with “Zoom Client for Meetings” installed. This can be downloaded from https://zoom.us/download

Course Outline

1. Identify signs and Symptoms of Mental Health.

• Mental health landscape in Singapore
• Psychological impact of Covid-19 pandemic
• Work-related stressors
• Signs of burnout.
• Signs and symptoms of mental health conditions.
• Brief sharing of the Tripartite Advisory for Mental Health well-being at the workplace

2. Establish holistic self-care framework

• Stress level survey and Quality of Life
• Different symptoms of stress
• Self-reflection – stress management for self
• Personalised and holistic self-care framework/ approach.

3. Provide peer support for distressed colleagues.

• Key role and pre-requisite of being a mental health supporter (include what is peer support and code of conduct)
• Coaching techniques
• Micro-counselling techniques for distressed colleagues.
• Active listening

4. Support colleagues to implement their self-care plan

• Testimonials – live or ppl who had lived experience.
• Wellness approach to support healthy-work life harmony
• Self-care
• Engaging the supervisor
• Internal and external resources
• Referral Processes

Certificate Obtained and Conferred by

Upon meeting attendance requirements and passing the assessment(s), participants will receive an e-SOA from SSG and a certificate of completion from NTUC LearningHub.