CAISE KE Seminar

What’s in a room?—Sharing of an online counselling experience

May 4, 2020 (Mon) 18:00 – 19:15

Abstract
Online counselling is a relatively new development in recent decade and has been identified as an important source to reach out clients who might have difficulties in accessing the face-to-face counselling services. In view of the outbreak of COVID-19, online platform becomes one of the most accessible means for counsellors and clients to meet. This seminar will explore how to conduct counselling on online platform, including ways to engage clients, facilitate the reflection and establish collaborative relationships in the “room” of the online setting. The professional and ethical issues, such as the “netiquette” rules; confidentiality, and boundaries and limits of counsellor-client relationships would be explored as well. There will be a short live demonstration of an online counselling session to let participants experience the helping process.

Speaker’s bio

Florence is a teacher, researcher, counsellor, teacher-trainer and nature-lover. She is now the Lecturer of Teacher Education and Learning Leadership (TELL) Unit at the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. She has dedicated her early career as a language teacher in the secondary school. During the service in the frontline educational field, she was responsible for various leading roles in nurturing students’ whole-person development. Such frontline practical experiences equipped her to investigate both the macro and micro view on educating and developing the potentials of young people when joined the academia. Her research areas are guidance and counselling; positive youth development; leadership and service-learning; aspirations of children and adolescents and programme evaluations.