Keynote Speaker
Professor Wen-Shing TSENG, M.D. Presentation Topic: Culture and Concept of Mental Health: East and West Wen-Shing Tseng, M.D., is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Hawaii, School of Medicine since 1972. He was trained for psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center of Harvard Medical School in Boston, and became a Research Fellow in culture and mental health at the East-West Center from 1970 to 1971. He was recruited as Faculty Member of the University of Hawaii School of Medicine, where he became a Professor in 1976, received academic tenure since 1978, and served as Training Director for the psychiatric residency training programme between 1975 and 1982. He held the position of Guest Professor of the Institute of Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China, since 1987. As a consultant to the World Health Organization and for teaching and research projects, he has traveled extensively to many countries in Asia and the Pacific, including China, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Fiji, and Micronesia. He served as Chairman of the Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association for two terms, from 1983 to 1993. He is the Honorable Advisor of this section now. In that capacity, he developed a wide network of colleagues around the world in the field of cultural psychiatry. Relating to the subject of culture and mental health, he has coordinated numerous international conferences in Honolulu, Beijing/Nanjing, Tokyo and Budapest. Throughout his career, he has conducted numerous research projects, mainly relating to: the cultural aspects of child development, family relations, assessment of psychopathology, epidemic mental disorders, culture-related specific psychiatric syndromes, folk healing, and psychotherapy. The studies resulted in the publication of more than 80 articles in scientific journals and/or book chapters. Among all the research projects that he conducted, there are several projects that particularly stand out internationally. One is the survey of the victims of koro (penis-shrinking anxiety disorder) epidemic occurred in South China, regarded by international colleagues as one of the most comprehensive investigation of culture-related specific syndromes. Working with colleagues both in Japan and China, he planned and carried out a three-year comparative follow-up study of mental health adjustment of Japanese war orphans and their Chinese families after their return to Japan and those remained in China. The obtained information resulted as a book published in Japanese: “Migration and Adjustment.” In collaboration with Nanjing Child Mental Health Center, he has systematically carried out a 18-year longitudinal follow-up study of child development and their personality profile with relation to the “Single-child family planning policy” that is taking place in China. He has been very productive in academic publication. He has edited/co-edited or authored nearly 20 English books, mostly relating to his special interest of cultural psychiatry, and nearly 30 Chinese books and/or monographs, mainly relating to psychotherapy and mental health. One of his one-person authored, 500-pages book of: “Handbook of Cultural Psychiatry” published in 2001, is regarded by the international colleagues as the landmark book of the field of cultural psychiatry, and has received the Creative Scholarship Award from the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (SSPC) in 2002. The book is translated into Italian and published in Rome, Italy. Recently, he is nominated by international colleagues to serve as the founding president of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry, and hold its First World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry in September 2006, in Beijing, China. Because of his research, publications, and experience, he has gained a reputation as an expert in cultural psychiatry, at both the national and international levels. |
Plenary Speakers (in alphabetical order)
Mrs. Sybil C T AU Presentation Topic: An Exploration of Mental Health Issues Experienced by Chinese Immigrants Responding to a Different Culture Sybil is a qualified psychiatric social worker and career practitioner with long standing experience in mental health, education and community work; both in Hong Kong and New Zealand. She has previously held positions as lecturer in social work at the Hong Polytechnic University and careers advisor at the University of Auckland. Sybil immigrated to New Zealand in 1989, taking with her the dedication in mental health work. She instigated the idea of a telephone counselling service for the Chinese speaking community in Auckland. She worked alongside Lifeline Auckland, a non-profit organization providing free counselling service in Auckland for over 40 years, to set up a Chinese counselling line in 1993. Sybil has since been responsible for service planning and management, training and supervision of Chinese counsellors. Sybil has also been actively involved in mental health projects and immigrant settlement programmes. In 1999, she was consultant in a research project concerning the barriers within the work place for Asian immigrants. She was the co-researcher in the research project “Mental Health Issues for Asians in New Zealand”, which was published in 2002 for the Mental Health Commission of New Zealand. Sybil is currently a counsellor in private practice. Sybil is married to a psychiatrist and has been living in New Zealand for 18 years. They enjoy music, reading and travelling. Interested in the Japanese culture, Sybil has studied the language for a few years. She regularly practices Tai Chi for relaxation.
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Professor Anthony W. BATEMAN, MA FRCPsych Presentation Topic: Attachment, Culture, Personality, and Psychiatric Disorder Anthony W. Bateman, MA FRCPsych is a Visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London. He is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College and Royal Free Medical Schools, Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust, and St Ann’s Hospital, London. He is also a Visiting Consultant at the Menninger Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas and a Clinical Tutor at Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health Care Trust. He has recently developed and manualised an innovative treatment for personality disorder (Mentalisation Based Treatment - MBT), trained nurses and others in its implementation and subjected the treatment to clinical trials. He also leads research into local counselling services in primary care in conjunction with local general practitioners and is studying the interaction of personality disorder on outcome of brief therapy for anxiety and depression. He has published numerous chapters and articles and has authored or edited several books. His most recent books include Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Mentalisation Based Treatment, Integration in Psychotherapy: Models and Methods and Introduction to Psychotherapy - an outline of psychodynamic principles and practice.
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| Professor Char-nie CHEN Honorary Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China Presentation Topic: East Meets West: Insight from a Large-Scale Psychiatric Epidemiological Survey in Hong Kong
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Professor Fanny M C CHEUNG Presentation Topic: Personality and Mental Health: Insights from Chinese Studies Prof. Fanny Cheung is currently Professor of Psychology and Chairperson of the Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is former Dean of the Faculty of Social Science. Prof. Cheung is a Fellow and past President of the Hong Kong Psychological Society (1984-85), a past President of the Division of Clinical and Community Psychology of the International Association of Applied Psychology (1990-94), and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Her research interests include personality assessment, psychopathology among the Chinese people, violence against women, and gender equality. Her academic publications include 7 books/monographs and over 100 journal articles, and book chapters. Since 1970s, Prof. Cheung has been active in promoting rights of and services for women and the disabled in Hong Kong. She spearheaded the War on Rape campaign in the late 1970s and founded the first community women’s centre in the early 1980s. She mobilized women’s groups to advocate for the establishment of a women’s commission and the extension of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to Hong Kong. Prof. Cheung has been actively involved in supporting psychiatric rehabilitation for 20 years. In response to residents’ rejection of facilities for the disabled in the community, she has run a series of public education campaigns since the 1980s to change attitudes and promote public acceptance of mental handicap and mental illness. From 1996-1999, she took leave from the University to become the Founding Chairperson of the Equal Opportunities Commission, a statutory body that implements the discrimination legislation in Hong Kong. She served as a founding member of the Women’s Commission of the Hong Kong SAR Government from 2001-2006. She has been a Delegate to the National Congress of Women in the People’s Republic of China in the past 13 years. Prof. Cheung has served in many government committees and advisory bodies in Hong Kong. For her contributions to the community, she was awarded the Badge of Honour in 1986, appointed as Justice of Peace in 1988 and awarded the Honour of Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1997. She received the Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals from University of Minnesota in 2003, selected as an International Scholar for the 2004 Fulbright New Century Scholar Programme, received the American Psychological Association Presidential Citation in 2004 as well as the APA Division 52 Distinguished International Psychologist Award in 2005.
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Mr. Tak-nam FOO Presentation Topic: Eastern Heart-and-Mind and Western Practice: Cultural Impacts on Mental Health Work in SUCCESS Mr. TN Foo has been a social work practitioner, educator and administrator with special interest in mental health for over 40 years. He was born and brought up in Hong Kong. He received his social work education at the University of Hong Kong, trained as a psychiatric social worker at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, and obtained his Master’s degree in Social Work from the McGill University, Canada. He was conferred an honorary award of University Fellow by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2000. Mr. Foo started his social work career with the Social Welfare Department of Hong Kong Government, working with the mentally ill, mentally handicapped, physically disabled and families. Later, he was posted to the Training Section and the Institute of Social Work Training of the Department. Then, he was transferred to the Hong Kong Polytechnic, teaching mental health, rehabilitation and social work for 13 years, and moving up from Principal Lecturer to Associate Head to Head of the Department of Applied Social Sciences. In 1990, Mr. FOO and his family immigrated to Vancouver, Canada where he immediately joined the United Chinese Community Enrichment Service Society (SUCCESS), a non-governmental multi social services organization, as a Program Director. He came back to Hong Kong to head up the Centre of Education of the Mental Health Association of Hong Kong in 2001, and returned to SUCCESS in 2005 and remained there till now. He was the Interim Chief Executive Officer of SUCCESS from July 2005 till October 2006. Whether in Hong Kong or in Canada, Mr. Foo has served energetically in many community committees of governments and non-governmental organizations in the areas of mental health, rehabilitation, education, race relations and multiculturalism. He served on the Executive Committee of the Mental Health Association of Hong Kong for 23 years and was on the Organizing Committee of the last WFMH Congress held in Hong Kong in 1971. Mr. Foo has also actively participated in international and regional conferences and meetings on mental health, social work education and social services in China, South East Asia, North America, and England. Mr. Foo is married with two adult daughters.
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Dr. Frances Hughes, RN, DNurs, ONZM, ANZCMHN, FCMHNZ Presentation Topic: Complexities, Challenges and Opportunities for Learning in Mental Health, from Pacific Island Nations Frances has had 25 years of experience in the New Zealand health service, working as a health clinician, manager and educator. She has a BA, MA and a Doctorate. She has played a major role in leadership in Nursing in New Zealand and was instrumental in the development of government policy around nurse prescribing, nursing workforce, nurse practitioners and application of Magnet principles. This includes being instrumental in the establishment of a separate professional body of mental health nurses, design and development of both the CTA new graduate and advanced mental health nursing programmes. She held the position of the Chief Advisor (Nursing) for the Ministry of Health for several years. International wide, Frances is involved in international research in areas such as Costing Nursing Turnover, and she is on the International Advisory Group for the ANCC in USA. She is the Facilitator for WHO/WPRO Pacific Island Mental Health Network and Technical Consultant in particular the area of psychosocial emergency response guidelines for Nurses. Frances is known for her innovative style and strategic approaches to health care. She held the first Professor of Nursing and the Director of the Centre for Mental Health Policy, Research and Service Development at the University of Auckland. She has been the Adjunct Professor for University of Technology – Sydney and held position as Principal Adviser in Mental Health in the Office of the Director of Mental Health for New Zealand. Frances now manages a NGO in Mental Health in New Zealand. She is Fellow of the New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses and the Australian and New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses. Frances for several years held the position as the Commandant-Colonel of the Royal New Zealand Army Nursing Core. Frances was the first nurse awarded the Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy in 2001, from Commonwealth Fund in New York. She has widely published in journals on areas of adolescent health, primary mental health, policy, nursing leadership and psychosocial emergency response. She recently was appointed to the WHO Expert Advisory Group on Mental Health for a four-year term. Frances received a Queens Birthday Honour for 2005, and was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for her services to Mental Health.
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Dr. Susie Kim, APRN, DNSc, Dr.HS(hon), FAAN Susie Kim, RN, DNSc, FAAN, is currently the President of Seoul Cyber University, Seoul Korea. She earned her BS in Nursing (1963) and MS in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Nursing Education (1969) from Ewha Womans University, and Doctor of Nursing Science (DNSc) degree (1978) from Boston University in the United States. She is the first nurse with a doctorate degree in nursing in Korea. She also received an honorary degree for Doctor of Human Science (hon.) from Penza National University (1997) in Russia. In education, Professor Kim taught at Yonsei University and Ewha Womans University and was the former Dean of College of Nursing Science, EWU in Korea. She was also Lucile P. Leone Distinguished Professor in International Nursing at School of Nursing, the University of California in San Francisco (1990) and a visiting professor at the School of Nursing at Columbia University (1993), an adjunct professor at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University (1996). As a visiting professor at University of Pennsylvania (2006) she served as Interim Director of the Office of International Nursing Program, School of Nursing. In research, Professor Kim has published over 130 articles and 22 books. She is currently the editor of Asian Journal of Nursing Science and Gidok Kanho (Christian Nursing) in Korea. She served as President of the Korean Academy of Nursing. Under her leadership, the Academy published a 2,400-page nursing encyclopedia for the first time in Korea, making a major contribution to nursing education and practice. She was also the president of Sigma Theta Tau Lambda-Alpha-at-large Chapter. Recognizing her contributions to education and research, she was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) in 1997, becoming the first nurse outside the United States to receive such an honor. In nursing practice, organizing a large number of well-qualified psychiatric & mental health nurse practitioners as the Director of Research Institute of Nursing Science, Ewha Womans University, Professor Kim established the first community-based mental health nursing care center in Korea. In its process, she developed ten caring techniques. Recognizing the effectiveness of the caring techniques in rehabilitating the long-term mental patients with easy access at an affordable cost not only in Korea but also in other developing countries, the United Nations Development Programme supported her pilot project during 1996-1998. Recognizing the significance of the project and importance for the global promotion of health, Sigma Theta Tau International headquarters in the United States featured her as a cover story in the August 1998 issue of its official periodical, Reflections, as a way to disseminate her project worldwide. She was also the pioneer in developing and disseminating hospice care, spiritual care and parish nursing in Korea. Professor Kim also established and has managed the Jinsunmee Counseling Center, a community service voluntary agency, for women and adolescents. In addition, Professor Kim is President of Holistic Health Nursing in Korea, and CEO of Korean Hospice Association, board member (Asian Region) of World Fellowship of Schizophrenia & Allied Disorder. She was the President of the Deans’ Association of baccalaureate Colleges of Nursing in Korea, Vice-president of the Korean Medical Mission Society, Korean Nurses Association and YWCA in Korea. Professor Kim was Pilot International Fellow, the Mertz Foundation Fellow and Fulbright Senior Scholar. She also received the honorary citizenship from the City of El Paso, Texas (1965), and a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Ewha Womans University School of Nursing. Dr. Kim is the recipient of the International Achievement Award 2001, equivalent to the Nobel Prize in Nursing from the International Council of Nurses - Florence Nightingale International Foundation.
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Ms. Caroline Fei-Yeng KWOK, B.A, M.Ed. Presentation Topic: Caught between Two Cultures Caroline Fei-Yeng Kwok, afflicted with manic-depression, is a teacher and a published writer. After attending Ying Wa Girls’ School in Hong Kong, she studied English Literature at the University of Minnesota in 1970 and graduated Summa Cum Laude with an Honours Award. She then taught English as a Second Language at the University of Hong Kong before her immigration to Canada in 1974. She started teaching English as a Second Language with the Toronto District School Board in 1975 after obtaining her Bachelor of Education from the University of Toronto. In 1982, she received her Master of Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. In the summer of 1996, she was admitted to the Creative Writing Department of Yale University. Prior to that, she had three articles published in the Toronto Star. She attended the Humber School for Writers’ Summer Program in Toronto in 2001. In 2004, she studied at the New York State Summer Writers’ Institute. Other publications have appeared in Psychiatric Services, Cross Currents, and Visions Magazine. Caroline is the author of a first book, “The Tormented Mind”. Her present book, “Free to Fly - A Story of Manic Depression”, is an uplifting personal account of her encounters with the mental health systems, her illness, and her recovery, a story of hope and self-determination. In 2001, Caroline was the recipient of the Courage to Come Back Award sponsored by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. She is currently teaching English as a Second Language/Literacy at Across Boundaries to immigrant psychiatric survivors in Toronto.
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Professor Dominic T S LEE, M.D., MBCHB (Hons) Presentation Topic: What Does Doing The Month (坐月子) Tell Us about Chinese Women, Modernity and Depression? Professor Dominic, Tak Shing Lee studied medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He furthered his psychiatric training at Cambridge University, and later on studied Medical Anthropology at Harvard University. He was previously Professor at The Chinese University and Lecturer on Social Medicine of the Harvard Medical School. Professor Lee conducts research about perinatal and reproductive mental health, depression, suicides, and drug abuse. Central to his work is an effort to integrate ethnographic studies with epidemiological surveys. He and his collaborators have received numerous grants to study the psychological impact of - and cultural issues pertaining to - postnatal depression, charcoal burning suicides, rave party abuse, and depression. These ethno-epidemiological works fathom the rates and risk factors of common mental illnesses in Chinese societies; and cast light on how cultural traditions, social processes, and local relationships shape the lived experience of sufferers. Professor Lee publishes widely in prestigious journals, including American Journal of Psychiatry and British Journal of Psychiatry. His works were regularly featured and press-released. His works on charcoal burning suicide and the phenomenology of Chinese depression were featured in the Science. Professor Lee also established the first postnatal depression screening and early intervention programme in Asia. Since 1998, he and his Obstetric & Gynecology collaborators have been using the Chinese Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale to proactively screen for women who have postnatal depression. Professor Lee has over the years provided training and technical support to clinicians, nurses and paramedics who are involved in the management of postnatal depression in Hong Kong and China. Professor Lee is also actively involved in international mental health training. He works with Harvard Medical School in training psychiatrists and building capacity for key mental health centers in China. He serves governmental advisory and grant review committees, as well as editorial board of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry and Chinese Mental Health Journal. He is also an executive member of the Marce Society – an international professional society for study of postnatal depression.
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| Professor Peter W H LEE Head, Clinical HEalth Psychology Programme, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China Presentation Topic: Living Life Fully: Positive Approaches to Combating Negative Emotions
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Dr. Ted Hung-tat LO, MBBS, MRCPsych, FRCPC Presentation Topic: East Meets West, and West Meets East: Implications on Mental Health Practice Ted Lo is a community psychiatrist in Toronto, Canada. He has been active in the area of cross-cultural mental health and complementary and alternative healthcare over the past twenty years. He is an Assistant Professor in the University of Toronto, consulting to the Culture Community and Health Studies Program in the Department of Psychiatry. He also participates in various cultural psychiatry initiatives in the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Mt. Sinai Hospital, and various community agencies. He is the Secretary of the Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. From 2001 to 2002 he was also appointed a Member of the Toronto Peel Mental Health Reform Task Force by the Minister of Health of Ontario. In 1982, he founded the Hong Fook Mental Health Association, which has now become an exemplary service for the ethnocultural populations. He was awarded the Service Award by the Canadian Mental Health Association in 1994. In 1998, he established the Friends of Alternative and Complementary Therapies (FACT), a community organisation dedicated to the promotion of credible information in complementary and alternative healthcare. FACT is an associate partner of the Canadian Health Network. He was awarded the Prix Clarite by the Canadian Complementary Medicine Association in 2002. Dr. Lo has lectured widely in these areas to the professional community as well as the public, and also wrote on these topics – particularly cultural competence, and is spearheading an initiative at the University of Toronto to integrate cultural content into the training of future psychiatrists. He has organized various China-Canada medical education projects including the First China-Canada Medical Satellite Conference in 1996, and produced the television/VCD series “Health and You” in China. He has also been involved with various media in Canada and abroad, and produced the documentary “Desire to Connect” in 1993. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1971, and immigrated to Canada in 1975. He is a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Royal College of Psychiatrists of United Kingdom.
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Mrs. Sigrid STEFFEN Presentation Topic: EUFAMI’s Impact and Support for Family Members as Carers Sigrid Steffen was born in 1941 and raised in Germany. She was educated in commercial affairs and advertising. From 1960 to 1964 Mrs. Steffen was secretary to the board Directors of Thyssen/Rheinstahl, from 1964 to 1968 she was personal assistant to the General Manager of Quelle (a mail order company), and in 1967 she married and moved 1968 to Austria. Since this time Mrs. Steffen has been running an advertising agency together with her husband. In addition, from 1980 to 1990 Mrs. Steffen was secretary general of the Marketing Club Salzburg. Between 1968 and 1970 Mrs. Steffen´s two sons were born. The younger one has been suffering from Schizophrenia since 1994. Since 1998, Mrs. Steffen has been a member of a family organization and since 2001 she became the president. Presently she is managing two projects which are embedded in our organization – the project JOJO addresses the needs of children of mentally ill parents and the second is a day care centre for people suffering from mental illnesses. Additionally Mrs. Steffen is also working on the board of the platform for Psychiatry, being board member in the headquarters of self-help groups in Salzburg and participating in several other committees and working groups such as the clinical advisory group. In May 2004, Mrs. Steffen was elected as Vice President of EUFAMI, the European Federation of Associations of Families for mentally ill people. Within EUFAMI, she is running and coordinating the Zerostigma project, which aims to fight the effects of stigma against mentally ill people in society and to provide a better overall treatment for them. Her special interest focuses on mental healthcare and the psychosocial environment in European countries.
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Mrs. Shona STURGEON Presentation Topic: Transcultural Mental Health - The Challenge Shona Sturgeon, M Soc.Sc in Clinical Social Work, is currently the President of the World Federation for Mental Health, previously having held the position of Regional Vice President for Africa for two terms. She is a Senior Lecturer and Social Work Programme Coordinator in the Department of Social Development, University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has taken an active leadership role in community mental health care and the development and management of mental health/developmental non-governmental organizations locally and nationally for many years. She has been President of non-governmental organizations concerned with mental health in Cape Town, including Cape Mental Health Society, the Family and Marriage Society of the Western Cape and the Parent Centre, serving on the Board of St. Luke’s Hospice and the Hospital Facilities Board of Valkenberg Hospital, the local psychiatric hospital. She has also been President of the South African Federation for Mental Health for two terms.
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Ms. Deborah L Y WAN, BBS, JP Presentation Topic: The Impact of Hong Kong’s Community Psychiatric Rehabilitation Model upon the Asian Countries Ms. Deborah Wan is a Registered Social Worker. She is currently the Chief Executive Officer of New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (NLPRA) and she has held this position for 26 years in the field of community psychiatric rehabilitation. She is a Board Member of the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) since 2003 and currently the Vice President of the Western Pacific Region. She is at present the Chair of the Commission on Work & Employment of the Asia-Pacific Region of Rehabilitation International and also Hong Kong’s Representative to the Asian/Pacific Network of Work Centres for Disabled Persons. In Hong Kong, she is now a member of the Committee on Trust Fund for SARS and has been serving as a member of the Social Welfare Advisory Committee which is a high level advisory body on Hong Kong’s social welfare services. In her extensive years of experience in the field of mental health, she has served in a number of bodies such as Mental Health Review Tribunal, Social Work Training Fund etc. New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association is founded in 1965 and it provides a comprehensive range of both residential/social and vocational rehabilitation services for the people with psychiatric disability. It has piloted a number of new projects in the past two decades, the creation of long stay care home, supported employment service in the form of vegetable market stall, agricultural farm as sheltered workshop and supported housing etc. NLPRA is now serving more than 5,000 persons per day in halfway houses, sheltered workshops, training and activity centres, long stay care homes, hostels & supported employment service. As chief executive of the Association, she has initiated many social enterprises for training & employment for people with psychiatric disability. She was also one of the editors for the booklet “Social Enterprise in Rehabilitation” jointly published by the Social Welfare Department, The Hong Kong Joint Council for People with Disabilities & The Hong Kong Council of Social Service. In addition, NLPRA is now operating an Institute of Psychiatric Rehabilitation which provides training courses for both professionals and the public. NLPRA is the leading non-governmental organization in Hong Kong for its innovation, creativity and quality rehabilitation services. Ms. Deborah Wan has established a close network with Mainland China, countries in the Asian & Pacific areas and with the International Labour Office and World Federation for Mental Health. She has been invited to be trainer as well as speaker in her areas of expertise in mental health and community psychiatric rehabilitation.
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Professor Wei-dong WANG Presentation Topic: The Thinking about the Development of Mental Health in China under the Impact of Eastern Culture to Western Culture Professor Wang has been conducting research and working clinically on Traditional Chinese Medicine psychology for over 10 years. Academic papers and books published are: “The Characteristics Analysis on SCL-90 factors of 103 SARS Patients in Convalescence”, Wang Weidong, Wu Yu, Zhao Yang and etc., Chinese Behavior Medical Sciences 2003, 12(5): 548-551(He won the First Class Award of Chinese Behavior Medical Sciences in 2004 and the Encouragement Award of Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Anti-SARS Excellent Scientific Research Papers); “The hypnotization skills”, Translator: Wang Weidong, Ma Xiaobei, Chinese Aviation Industrial Publishing House, February 1994, First Edition; “Body Work and Psychotherapy in the East”. Wang Weidong, Ishii Yasutomo, Haruki Yutaka, BYRON Publishing House, April 2000, etc. He has completed many research projects, especially the international ones.
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Dr. Sai-woh WONG Presentation Topic: QUO VADIS: An Experience in the Development of Culture Appropriate Mental Health Services in a Country with Bicultural Ideologies: Issues, Impediments and Lessons Learnt. Dr. Wong received his psychiatric training both in Hong Kong and New Zealand where he has been living for the past 22 years. In his capacity as a consultant, he works both in the public and private sectors. In the public service, his experience is in both acute and chronic psychiatry. He was the Clinical Director for South Auckland Mental Health Services from 1988 till 1998. In his private capacity, he works closely with other members of a group he founded: Chinese Mental Health Consultant Services, providing multidisciplinary services for the Chinese. Dr. Wong has spent much time working amidst the Chinese population in New Zealand, giving lectures both to local community and professional groups on mental health issues. He has frequently advocated the need for an integrated mental health service for the Chinese. Together with Chinese community leaders, he submitted a paper to the Health Minister in 1994 addressing mental health needs of the Chinese. The proposal only comes to fruition in 2006 when Dr. Wong and his colleague managed to implement an Asian Liaison Consultation Service within the public sector. In his own time, Dr. Wong is also involved in the founding of the Chinese Life Line telephone counselling service; and more recently established a Day Centre for the elderly Chinese. Dr. Wong is a Senior Clinical Teacher at the Auckland University Medical School, and the Psychiatric Registrar Training Program on Transcultural Psychiatry. As part of a National Workforce Development Project, Dr. Wong is involved in providing National Workshops for Mental Health Workers, and the Mental Health Interpreters’ Training Program. In collaboration with the Auckland University of Technology, he is engaged in mental health research activities among the Chinese population in Auckland. A few papers had been published on Chinese mental health issues.
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Dr. Matthew K S YAU, BAppSc, MCom, MSc (Hons), PhD, OTR, CST Presentation Topic: To Facilitate Adaptation and Adjustment to Mental Illness in Families through Adoption of Multiple Explanatory Models Dr. Yau is Assistant Professor of the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor of the School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for Research into Disability and Society, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. Besides being an occupational therapist with extensive clinical experience in mental health practice, he also received training in clinical hypnotherapy and sex therapy. He is a certified sex therapist in Hong Kong and the United States. Dr. Yau’s doctoral study was in the area of mental illness and Chinese families in Hong Kong. He is main author of the book, “Untangling the Threads: Perspectives on Mental Health in Chinese Communities” (edited by W.O. Phoon & I. Macindoe, and published by the Transcultural Mental Health Centre, Australia). Dr. Yau’s research interests include psychiatric rehabilitation, culture & mental illness, and sexuality & disability. He has conducted “Cultural Competence in Health Care Practice” workshops in U.S., Australia, Europe and Hong Kong etc. over the years. He is an active advocate for people with disabilities. He writes regular columns in local newspapers and magazines on “Sex, Health and Relationship”.
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Familylink Presentation Topic: “WE CAN BREAK THE SPELL!” - Family Caregiver’s Self Help Organization Perspective In June 2000, the “Familylink Mental Health Education Program” was first held in Hong Kong by two initiators, Dr. Lee Sing of the Department of Psychiatry of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, together with Dr. Chiu Y.L., Marcus, Department of Social Work of the Hong Kong Baptist University. The goal of the program” is to help their family members (or caregivers) to understand their mental patients with empathy, and empower them to claim for their own rights. In the beginning of 2003, with the continuous support and encouragement by Dr. Lee and Dr. Chiu, the “Hong Kong Familylink Mental Health Advocacy Association” (FLAA) was formed by a group of enthusiastic graduates who were committed to “SELF-HELP BY HELPING OTHERS”. FLAA is a non-government charitable organization that focuses on serving family members of mental patients. Upon completion of the Education Program, graduates are encouraged to become the members of FLAA association. The education program is the first course on mental health in Hong Kong that is taught and organized by family members of mental health patients. In the Hong Kong Chinese context, when there is a mental ill patient, the whole family suffers. While the Hospital Authority and the wider medical system in Hong Kong try to help and medicalize the individual patient, it is the goal of the education program to help the entire family to actualize a genuine community mental health service.
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Phoenix Clubhouse
Establish in 1998, Phoenix Clubhouse is a community adult psychiatric rehabilitation service under the auspices of the Queen Mary Hospital and the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong. Phoenix Clubhouse is the first clubhouse that is accredited and recognized by the International Center for Clubhouse Development (ICCD) for providing world-class rehabilitation services to people with mental illness in Hong Kong. The Clubhouse Model originated from the United States. Phoenix Clubhouse is the first of its kind in Hong Kong and China. There are currently about 400 clubhouses in 28 countries, about 150 of which are ICCD accredited. Phoenix Clubhouse is the first of its kind in Hong Kong and China. It has become the role model for local and overseas Chinese communities that provide this kind of service. In 2005, Phoenix Clubhouse has started to provide Clubhouse Model Orientation Program for individuals who are interested to set up clubhouses in Chinese communities. Phoenix Clubhouse has 120 active members with a daily attendance of 48. Under the Clubhouse model, the people with mental illness are voluntary members of the club. They work side by side with staff in operating the Clubhouse. Examples of their daily tasks include greeting visitors, handling telephone enquiries, preparing and serving lunch, operating a tuckshop, handle clerical duties and publishing a Clubhouse newspaper daily. Members can choose their preferred work tasks. Through working in the Clubhouse, members can develop job skills, perform “real work” that helps them regain a sense of self-worth and build up meaningful relationships with their peers and Clubhouse staff. They also have access to educational resources and employment opportunities such as transitional employment, supported employment or independent employment.
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