Stanley
Chan
270 Old Post Road, Waterloo,
Ontario, Canada N2L 5B9
Tel: 519-884-5384
Fax: 519-884-9120
Email: stanleyknchan@hotmail.com
Practice:
The scope of my philosophical practice is essentially
designed for those who, and by extension their significant
ones, are, on account of the existence of a lifethreatening
diagnosis, confronted, within the context time, with the
quest for meaning in matters of life ,death and immortality.
The practice, by its very nature, is a restricted one,
but referrals of individuals for whom the service is intended
are most welcome.
While the practice is greatly enriched by the propositions
of time and the personal reflections on death and dying
of some of the great ancient and medieval thinkers, it
values, as its guiding principles, the contributions of
modern thinkers from existential background, logotherapy
orientation, and time theory
Experiences:
A. Counseling
- Twenty years of counseling experience with the terminally
ill; significant ones in the largest cancer hospital in
Canada.
- Three years of counseling psychiatric patients and their
families
- Two years of counseling couples with marital discord
- Two years of counseling parent/children conflicts
B. Teaching
- Three years of high school teaching in Hong Kong and
Ontario
- One year part-time teaching at Wilfrid Laurier University
- Teaching allied health care professional students psychosocial
care of cancer patients more than ten years
- Supervising MSW students
Professional Contributions:
- Examiner of new candidates, Ontario College of Certified
Social Workers
- International Board member of American Philosophical
Practitioners Association
- Board member of Canadian Philosophical Practitioners
Association
- Conference speaker at psychosocial and philosophical
professional organization
Orlando, San Antonio, New York- City (USA) , Montreal
and Toronto (Canada), Hamburg (Germany), Oxford (UK),
and Lampeter (Wales)
Education:
- B.A. (English and Psychology), Hong Kong Baptist University,
1963
- Teaching Diploma, Northcote Teacher's College, 1964
- M.Ed.(Educational Psychology), University of Ottawa,
1968
- M.S.W., Wilfrid Laurier University, 1971
- Post-MSW clinical training in Family and Marriage Therapy,
Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, 1977 r i o Wales, 1997
- PhR candidate in Philosophy, University of Wales, 1996-present
Membership:
- Certified Member, American Philosophical Practitioners
Association
- Fellow, American Orthopsychiatric Association
- Member, Ontario College of Social Worker,
- Member, International Association of Psychosocial Oncology
