Silent Struggles: Addressing Mental Health in Correctional Work
Equip yourself to recognise, understand, and respond to mental health challenges in correctional and reintegration settings.
Upcoming Run: 25th Oct 2025
Upcoming Run: 25th Oct 2025
Silent Struggles: Addressing Mental Health in Correctional Work
SPS-010-SSW
$0.00
Duration: 8.00 hours
Upcoming Run: 25th Oct 2025
Sign Up nowCourse Fees & ScheduleWhat is it about?
What if the behaviour you see is only the tip of the iceberg?
How can you be ready to help when someone is in mental distress?
Mental health struggles are often hidden yet profoundly affect rehabilitation outcomes. In this course, you’ll learn to recognise early signs of distress, understand psychiatric comorbidities linked to offending, and apply Psychological First Aid (PFA) confidently equipping you to support offenders and ex-offenders with empathy, skill, and clear boundaries.
What Is This Module About?
This 8-hour training equips volunteers to recognise and respond effectively to mental health challenges in correctional contexts. Through dialogue, hands-on exercises, and guided learning, you’ll build the awareness and tools to make a meaningful difference while staying within your volunteer role.
You will learn:
Understand the mental health spectrum and its link to offending behaviours.
Examine psychiatric comorbidities in correctional contexts.
Apply Psychological First Aid (PFA) in realistic case scenarios.
How This Course Makes a Difference
Mental health challenges are complex this course gives you the knowledge and tools to respond with understanding, reduce stigma, and support reintegration more effectively.
Understand the Mental Health Spectrum
Gain insight into the range of mental health conditions and their impact on offending, rehabilitation, and reintegration.
Examine Psychiatric Comorbidities
Discover how overlapping mental health conditions influence behaviour and shape support needs in corrections.
Apply Psychological First Aid
Learn practical, non-clinical skills to respond to distress using real-world case examples and roleplay.
Recognise Early Warning Signs
Identify behavioural and emotional cues that signal potential mental health challenges before they escalate.
Support Recovery Without Enabling
Balance empathy with accountability to encourage positive change without reinforcing harmful patterns.
Communicate with Trauma Awareness
Apply trauma-informed approaches that build trust, reduce triggers, and create a safe space for dialogue.
Who is it for?
Ready to Engage Inmate with Support and Care?
Whether you're working within prison walls, supporting reintegration, or journeying alongside families, cultural competency matters. This course helps you recognise and respond to cultural differences with respect, humility, and practical skill.
Spiritual Counsellors & In-Care Facilitators
Support offenders holistically by understanding how mental health, trauma, and identity shape their journey, while practising empathetic support with healthy boundaries.
Aftercare Befrienders & Community Volunteers
Build trust by recognising the unique challenges faced by ex-offenders with mental health needs. Gain tools to provide practical support without overstepping or engaging in saviourism.
Volunteers Working with Families
Understand how mental health issues impact family systems and reintegration, and learn strategies to support with both sensitivity and structure.
Youth & Family Support Volunteers
Navigate family dynamics respectfully by understanding cultural roles, values, and expectations, supporting reintegration without imposing assumptions.
Community & Social Service Professionals
Deepen your understanding of mental health in correctional contexts, applying trauma-informed, person-centred approaches to better collaborate with diverse clients.
Prison Care Counsellors & Officers
Strengthen your ability to identify and address inmate mental health needs, creating safer and more supportive environments for rehabilitation.
Why Learn with Us
Hands-On & Practical
We believe the best learning happens by doing. Our courses are highly experiential — packed with real-life case studies, role-plays, and interactive group work. You won’t just sit through slides; you’ll practise the skills that matter.
Learn from the Best
Our trainers are experienced practitioners, not just facilitators. They’ve walked the talk and brought wisdom from the field, not just the textbook. Learn from people who’ve been there — and are here to help you grow.
Fun, Safe & Engaging
Learning should feel energising. We foster a warm, inclusive environment where you're encouraged to ask, reflect, laugh, and learn — all while building supportive relationships with fellow participants.
Backed by Research
Every course is grounded in evidence-based practices from psychology, social work, education, and communication science. You get practical tools that work — not just trendy jargon.
Designed for Real Life
Our content is real-world-ready. Whether you're navigating tough conversations at home, supporting others in your role, or developing your own mindset, what you learn is instantly applicable.
Lifelong Learning Community
When you join us, you join a movement. All alumni get access to follow-up events, peer circles, and exclusive learning spaces. You stay connected, supported, and part of something bigger — long after the course ends.
Meet your trainers
Lin Xiangbin
Senior Clinical Psychologist
Lin Xiangbin is a registered clinical psychologist with deep experience in offender rehabilitation, trauma-informed care, and psychological interventions. He has worked in institutional and community settings, applying behavioural science to support change. A skilled educator, he trains leaders and frontline workers in crisis response and mental health. Xiangbin creates safe, engaging spaces where complex ideas become practical insights.
- •Clinical Psychologist
How will the course run?
📌 Course Access Information
This is a 1-day virtual training conducted on Zoom platform.
Zoom link will be shared closer to the training date.
📞 For support, please contact Althea at althea@blendedconcept.com.
| Date | Start Time | End Time | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-25 | 09:00 | 17:00 | Online |
Course Fees
| Course Structure | Fee (Net Fee after training grant subsidy) |
|---|---|
| Free (Sponsored by Singapore Prison Service)This course is complimentary for volunteers and staff from partner organisations of the Singapore Prison Service. | Free |
