With a dual professional background in mental health social work and Chinese medicine, my research theme is mental health, mental disorders and culture. My current research areas include (i) operationalization of the Chinese medicine stagnation syndrome as a psychological construct useful to all mental health practitioners; (ii) family expressed emotion of persons with schizophrenia and its impacts on the course of illness; (iii) critical re-examination of the conceptualization of mindfulness; and (iv) workplace well-being: a paradigm shift of focus from stress and burnout to meaning and engagement.
Project | PI/ Co-leader/ Co-investigator | Funding Body | Period | |
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A Guided Mobile-Based Perinatal Mindfulness Intervention – A Randomized Controlled Trial | PI |
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Jan. 2021 – Jun. 2023 | |
Reducing mental health-related stigma in primary health care professionals: Randomized controlled trial of Enhancing Contact Model in rural China | PI | GRF: Research Grant Council, HKSAR Government (#17600520) | Aug. 2020 – Jan. 2024 | |
Brief body-mind-spirit practice for sustainable emotional capacity and work engagement for community mental health workers – a multi-site randomized controlled trial | PI | GRF: Research Grant Council, HKSAR Government (# 17610418) | Jan. 2019 – Jun 2021 | |
A research study on the application of Laughter Yoga daily exercises in Hong Kong on enhancing the mental well-being of people suffering from mood disorders | PI | Caritas Rehabilitation Services | July 2017 – Nov. 2018 | |
Blended Approach for social work Learning: reflection-based and user-oriented pedagogical model | Co-Leader |
University Grant Council (# CUHK-3)
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Sept. 2017 – Aug. 2020 | |
Evaluation of the project “Career Empowerment Platform for People of Differences” | PI | Lee Hysan Foundation / DiD HK Limited | Oct. 2016 – Feb. 2020 | |
Group therapy for Chinese medicine stagnation syndrome – a randomized controlled trial | PI | GRF, Research Grant Council, HKSAR Government (# 748013) | Jan. 2014 – Dec. 2017 |