ABOUTUS

Since 2007, The School of Positive Psychology is the pioneer education and training facility in Singapore and Asia established to promote the art, science and practice of positive psychology and psychotherapy. Apart from providing education and creden-tialing, we promote research, training, and the dissemination of positive psychology. We are here to share the gift of joy and fulfillment using the methods offered in positive psychology.

Our Mission

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Our Story

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To ‘POSITIFY’ people and organisations through the growth of positive psychology in Asia, leading to optimal levels of wellbeing and human functioning.

Our Vision“A THRIVING POPULATION”Being a positive psychology education leader in Asia to provide an accessible platform for high quality applied positive psychology, psychotherapy, positive education, and positive organisational psychology courses for personal and organisational develop--ment.

Understand the complexity of human minds

Learn the science behind human

behavior

Understand how children and adults change over time

Increase social intelligence

Reinforce communication skills and relationships

Develop resilience and increase overall

well being

Discover signature strengths

Enhance listening and counselling skills

Improve conflict resolution skills

Cultivate growth mindset

Enhance understanding of self and others

Increase positive emotions through

positive interventions

Sharpen leadership and management

skills

Materialise ambition of a career in psychology

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HOW WILL IBENEFIT?

Students enrolling for the single major diploma programme are only required to take 8 modules whereas students enrolling for the double major diploma programme are re-quired to take 10 modules. The modules are listed in the table below:

Diploma in Applied Positive Psychology

Diploma in Applied Psychology

Diploma in Psychology and Positive Psychology

Diploma in Psychology and Psychotherapy

SINGLE MAJOR DOUBLE MAJOR

Abnormal Psychology

Addictions and Interventions

Family and Marital Counselling

Group Counselling

Positive Emotions and Thoughts

Positive Reframing Workshop

Resilience Workshop

Social Psychology

Introduction to Psychotherapy and Counselling

Developmental Psychology

Introduction to Positive Psychology

Foundation Psychology

Diploma in Psychotherapy and Counselling

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Psychotherapy Practice and Ethics

MODULES

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COREMODULES

01Introduces the field of psychology as a scientific discipline concerned with the study of thought and human behaviour. How do people differ from one another? Does childhood development affect our adulthood? How does motivation play a part in reaching goals? Do we all think the same? This module tries to answer these questions and many others. It explores topics on the history of psychology, human devel-opment, mind and brain, perception, learning and motivation, personality, emotional be-haviours, personality and intelligence.

FOUNDATION PYSCHOLOGY

02Introduction to Positive Psychology takes you through the brief history of positive psychology and how it differs from the current ‘disease’ mod-el. It looks at basic themes and assumptions such as happiness and well being. It focuses on the effects of having positive emotions such as opti-mism and joy, interpersonal positive relationships and developing character strengths that can in-fluence an individual to flourish. The module equips learners with positive interventions tools to increase overall well being and how to influ-ence others to be positive. Coping skills such as mindfulness and resilience to overcome challeng-es will also be learnt.

INTRODUCTION TO POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

03Developmental Psychology introduces the learners to human growth and development over their life span from conception to death. Is there such a thing as a mid life crisis? Have my cognitive abilities changed during the last five years? Will my intelligence increase over time? Will I be the same person when I am eighty? These are questions we all ask our-selves. The module will transport the learners through their past and future by looking at the three major developmental stages which are childhood, adolescence and adulthood. It also covers topics on puberty, sexuality, adult ma-turity, lifestyle changes, the family life cycle, and retirement.

DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

04Introduction to Psychotherapy and Counselling in-troduces the learners to the fundamental theories of psychotherapy. The module looks at a number of theories such as the psychoanalytic theories of Freud, the humanistic approach and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT). Learners will be taught the fundamental skills of a therapist such as listening, attending and responding skills. Learners will further learn questioning techniques to be able to interact with clients. This module will provide learners with the understanding and applicability of psychotherapy and counselling to successfully implement this professionally and in other areas of development such as personal, life, relationships, workplace and family.

INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING

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*For complete module listing please contact our student advisor: info@positivepsych.edu.sg

07Family and Marital Counselling looks at the various theories and techniques in work-ing with families and couples. The module first examines how individuals are affected by their own family by looking at personal conflicts and the influence of family dynam-ics. You will learn about marital conflicts such as extra marital affairs, communication break-down, financial issues, household tasks and how individual personalities can contribute to these conflicts. You will further learn various therapy techniques in dealing with teenagers, parents, couples, and families.

FAMILY AND MARITALCOUNSELLING

06Addictions and Interventions aims to address why individuals get addicted and the various intervention techniques to overcome an addiction. What makes an individual become addicted to alcohol, drugs, gambling or sex? Why can one person have a drink or two while another must indulge in several bottles to sleep at night? The module will explore personality traits, past experiences, family dynamics, and the social environment and how these factors influence addiction. You will learn skills to help clients overcome addiction by setting goal commitments, working on resistance, addressing the underlying causes that lead to the addiction and to build up motivational emotions such as self efficacy.

ADDICTIONS AND INTERVENTIONS

05Abnormal Psychology introduces you to the concepts and issues of abnormal behaviours and psychological disorders. You will learn how behaviours can be influenced by physiol-ogy, cognition, developmental and social fac-tors. You will explore topics on anxiety relat-ed disorders, depression, moods and stress, schizophrenia, eating and sleep disorders, somatofoam and dissociative discorders, per-sonality disorders and aspects of health psy-chology. The various intervention methodolo-gies and techniques will also be discussed.

ABNORMALPSYCHOLOGY

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ELECTIVEMODULES

08Group Counselling equips learners with extra skills to take their knowledge in individual therapy and to apply them in a group setting. The module will focus on group leadership styles and cor-responding effects on group therapy. It will also explore issues like member recruitment, goal establishment, group communication, skills for ensuring group cohesion. You will learn how they, as a therapist should deal with difficult and defensive behaviours, create group trust, work with intense emotions and to effectively address each group member’s issue.

GROUP COUNSELLING

09Positive Emotions and Thoughts dives into the myraid of positive emotions; how they are formed and how they can be understood and influenced. You will learn the science behind positive emo-tions such as joy, optimism, hope, confidence, gratitude, happiness and how they can be enhanced to increase life satisfaction. The module further teaches the importance of self efficacy and how you can increase your self efficacy by learning problem solving skills and coping strategies. The concept of mindfulness, an act of intentional participation in the present, will also be explored and deliberated.

POSITIVE EMOTIONS AND THOUGHTS

*For complete module listing please contact our student advisor: info@positivepsych.edu.sg

10Positive Reframing has always been taught as a psychotherapy approach for personal development purposes. In this workshop, you will be exposed to different techniques in reframing perceptions to positive ones. Positive guided imagery techniques including creative visualization will be taught and demon-strated. This module will enable learners to develop a personal mental framework for building mental resilience through guided imagery techniques, with cognitive abilities and psychological capital, utilising unconscious strengths, thinking habits, value domains and creative intelligence.

POSITIVE REFRAMING WORKSHOP

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Specialisation We only offer psychology courses at The School of Positive Psychology. The curriculum is carefully developed by acclaimed psychology experts.

Application Approach In The School of Positive Psychology, we emphasise more on applications and discussions rather than theoretical approach. You can immediately apply what you learn after attending each lesson in your work and personal lives.

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Learning from leading positive psychologistsOn the list of our teaching community are Dr Ilona Boniwell, Dr Robert Biswas- Diener and graduates of Martin Seligman’s Master of Applied Positive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Small Teacher to Student RatioSmall Teacher to Student Ratio. Studies have shown that a small teacher to student ratio dramatically increases learning effectiveness. Reducing class sizes and the total number of students that a faculty member is responsible for teaching in a semester leads to significant improvements in student outcomes.

ARE WE DIFFERENT?

HOW

11Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress, it means “bounc-ing back” from difficult experiences. It builds on research findings from four relevant fields of study, namely cognitive behavioural therapy, resilience, post traumatic growth and positive psychology. In this 2-day interactive workshop, learners will understand how resilience, hope and optimism interact and affect each other. It also explores the role of cognition and think-ing styles in our experience of resilience. The workshop helps to improve learners’ coping strategies during crisis and ability to make good decisions even under stressful environment. The programme also aims to help you develop the ability to thrive and flourish, rather than just to survive, in the face of inevitable difficulties and uncertainties. In a nutshell, the workshop helps the learners to build their ‘resilience mus-cles’ through identifying their strengths, social support networks, sources of positive emotions and previous experiences of resilience.

RESILIENCE WORKSHOP

12Social Psychology studies individuals in the social context. It is the study of how and why people think, feel and do the things they do depending on the social situation they are in. Social psychology focuses on how psycholog-ical factors influence our interactions with oth-ers. We all have given in to peer pressure at some point in our life; but why should this be the case? You will learn topics that would address issues on social influence, group processes, prejudice and discrimination, aggression, attitudes, stereotypes, conformity and compliance and other topics that influence how you are as an individual.

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

13Psychotherapy Practice and Ethics introduces the importance of professional behaviour under the Ethics Code. This module aims to teach the standards of conduct, performance and ethics on your role as a therapist. Topics will include ethical issues such as confidentiality, informed consent, dual relationships, termina-tion and referral. It will guide you into making informed and reasonable decisions for your client, to behave with honesty and integrity and to ensure that personal bias and beliefs do not interfere with therapy. Other ethical issues such as sexual harassment, discrimination, privacy and harm are also discussed.

PSYCHOTHERAPYPRACTICE AND ETHICS

*For complete module listing please contact our student advisor: info@positivepsych.edu.sg

Course

Fees

SGD

7,704 w/GST

(Single

major)

SGD

9,630 w/GST

(Double

major)

Entry Requirements

Diploma holder from Polytechnic or recognised PEI, or

2 GCE ‘A’ Level H2 passes with either KI or GP, or

5 GCE ‘O’ Level creditswith minimum C6 grade in English or equivalent

ITE higher NITEC

Application Requirements

Completed application form

Completed mission statement

1 recent passport sized photo

One photocopy of NRIC or Singapore valid pass

Educational certificates and academic transcripts

Application fee: SGD 160.50 w/GST

Application Procedure

Step

1: Pre-course

interview

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course

supervisor

Step

2: Write a

mission statement

of 200

words on

why

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want to

study the course

Course Delivery

Lectures and seminars

Class presentations

Role plays

Case studies and discussions

Examinations

Course Duration

12 months

ENROLMENT

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Mature students with minimum 2 years working experience holding either

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