Eulisia Er

Aside from the aforementioned concerns, Eulisia has often been tasked to handle students with more challenging behavioural issues. She has expertise in Functional Behaviour Analysis (FBA) and Positive Behaviour Support (PBS). Eulisia has delivered holistic and effective intervention plans which addressed the root cause of children’s challenging behaviours, enabling these children to learn new skills and appropriate behaviours.

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Apart from individual sessions with children, Eulisia believes that parenting and a strong partnership between teachers, parents and their psychologist play fundamental roles in the optimal development of children. Since 2012, Eulisia is an Accredited Facilitator for Signposts for Building Better Behaviour Programme, a parenting programme put together by KK Women and Children Hospital’s Department of Child Development (KKH DCD) and the Parenting Research Centre (PRC), Australia. In addition, Eulisia is a certified trainer of the Good Enough Parenting (GEP) programme accredited by Singapore’s Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF). Eulisia has also conducted training for teachers on Positive Behaviour Support strategies for their usage in the classroom.

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In 2012, Eulisia was also one of the first psychologists to be involved in the implementation of a Transdisciplinary framework at a government-funded EIPIC Centre. The transdisciplinary framework is recognized as a best practice for early intervention. It adopts a family-centered systematic approach to early intervention that link assessment, goal development, intervention and evaluation processes, to meet the complex needs of children with disabilities and their families.  

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In the past decade, Eulisia has equipped parents, caregivers and teachers with knowledge and strategies to better understand and manage their children’s developmental need. She has helped numerous parents and teachers understand the significance of building healthy relationships with their children as a basis for positive behavioural changes and skills acquisition.

For her research in parental involvement, Eulisia won several awards (Best Research, Best Writing and Best Oral Presentation) in the 2017 Singapore Psychological Society Student Research Awards. She has actively participated and presented her research on family functioning, social skills and parent-child interventions in key conferences in Greece, Japan, USA, UK and Singapore.

In 2016, Eulisia received the NCSS SkillsFuture Study Award for Social Service Sector.In addition, Eulisia is an Assisted Deputyship Application Programme (ADAP) Supervisor for mental capacity assessments. ADAP helps parents of graduating cohorts in Special Education (SPED) schools apply to Court to be deputies for their child, so that they can continue to make legal decisions for their child after he or she turns 21. She is also a Certified Substance Abuse Therapist (CSAT), certified by the Asia Pacific Certification Board (APCB).

Beyond her current job scope, Eulisia holds concurrent appointments in the public sector; she volunteers in Singapore Psychological Society’s Research Committee as its deputy chair. In addition, she helps out as a Victim Care Officer with the Singapore Police Force to provide care services to victims of serious sexual crimes. In addition, Eulisia also volunteers as an Appropriate Adult.

The Appropriate Adult Scheme aims to provide assistance to persons with intellectual or mental disability (PWIDs) who are required to give a statement to the Police during investigations. Eulisia was also involved in the Hayes Ability Screening Index (HASI) test study, which was a pro-bono pilot-study on accused persons with intellectual disabilities, jointly conducted by the Law Society of Singapore, the Singapore Psychological Society and Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF). Eulisia was actively involved in the pilot project whereby HASI was used to identify potential persons with intellectual disabilities at the point of arrest when an offence is committed.