Ching Man Lam

TL;DR: The authors found that disturbing events experienced by social work students in their fieldwork were a catalyst to their reflective process, and their undue concern with knowledge and skills application within a circumscribed knowledge frame suggests the dominant influence of scientism and competence-based practice in social work, where learning outcomes and instrumental and technical reasoning are highly emphasized.

TL;DR: This paper argued that the dominant Western construction of adolescent development which defines adolescence as an individuation process with the primary theme of developing an autonomous self is alien to the Chinese cultural system.

TL;DR: This article found that adolescents with stronger endorsement of positive Chinese beliefs about adversity generally displayed better psychological well-being and school adjustment and less problem behavior, while no significant differences were found among fathers, mothers, and adolescent children on their endorsement of Chinese belief about adversity.

TL;DR: The Chinese version of the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale (C-KMS) was administered to 91 maritally "adjusted" and 81 "maladjusted" adults, along with other instruments assessing marital adjustment and marital expectations as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Qualitative evaluation was carried out to understand the perceptions of the students participating in the Tier 1 Program of the Project P.A.T.H.S.T., and revealed that the program participants perceived many beneficial effects of the program in different psychosocial domains.