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Tips on Sustainable Psychological Health

The recent events in Hong Kong have given rise to unprecedented challenges to general psychological wellbeing. Professor Tatia Lee, Head of HKU Department of Psychology, and her clinical psychology and educational psychology colleagues, have prepared five short videos, each of which contains useful insight and tips for protecting and promoting psychological wellbeing. A special topic will be presented each week starting from May 29, 2020.

Jockey Club Lab for Cultural Diversity Study launches multi-lingual booklet and documentary video and video highlight of Human Library cum Concert

The Jockey Club Lab for Cultural Diversity Study (JCLCDS) produced a multi-lingual booklet entitled “Youth in Transition: Growing up experiences of the ethnic minority youth in Hong Kong”. The booklet reports on selected stories of youth and young adults from the longitudinal and oral history studies between the ages of 18 and 33 with family heritage in South or Southeast Asia. The booklet aims to promote a better public understanding of youth transitions to adulthood and challenge some of the existing stereotypes of ethnic minority communities in Hong Kong. JCLCDS has also produced a set of documentary video and event video highlights of a Human Library-cum-Concert held on June 2, 2019, and commissioned a documentary by an ethnic minority videographer under the Project’s Human Library Programme. The booklet and videos have been made available on the Project website. JCLCDS, funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust and co-created by the HKU Faculty of Social Sciences, is a component under the C-for-Chinese@JC initiative.

HKU launches mindfulness resources package to support HKDSE students

Jockey Club “Peace and Awareness” Mindfulness Culture in Schools Initiative (JC PandA), a project organised by the Faculty of Social Sciences in HKU, has launched ‘Mindfulness in the Face of Academic Stress’ resources package to encourage HKDSE candidates and students to create a mindful space amidst the epidemic, so as to better adjust their emotions for their mental well-being. This package is a follow-up of an earlier resources package, ‘Mindfulness in the Time of Coronavirus Epidemic’, that supports the general public in this difficult time.

Faculty Knowledge Exchange Awards 2019

The annual Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards recognise each Faculty’s outstanding KE accomplishment that has made demonstrable economic, social or cultural impacts to benefit the community, business/industry, or partner organisations. Results of the 2019 Faculty KE Awards are now available.

HKU launches third round of psychosocial programme for children with eczema and parent caregivers

HKU Department of Social Work and Social Administration launched the “Seeing the Invisible” project during the summer of 2017, the first psychosocial programme for children with eczema and their parent caregivers. The project is based on the integrative body-mind-spirit model, with the aim to enhance holistic well-being of children with eczema and their parents, as well as to facilitate better parent-child relationship. Results from phase 1 and 2 of the project showed that upon completion of the programme, children’s stress and physical discomfort had been effectively relieved while their self-confidence and emotional resilience enhanced, parents’ overall quality of life and awareness of the need for self-care have been improved, thereby fostering closer parent-child relationships. The Department will be partnering with Christian Family Service Centre (CFSC) to deliver phase 3 of the project from July to December 2019.

Jockey Club End-of-Life Community Care Project reduces anxiety of patients and their family members

Since the launch in 2016, the Jockey Club End-of-Life Community Care Project (JCECC), which HKU Faculty of Social Sciences participated as a partner institution, provided capacity enhancement trainings to over 10,000 healthcare professionals in hospitals and the community and to 586 volunteers for community end-of-life care (EoLC) support; and EoLC services to over 5,000 elderly with terminal illnesses and their family members, as well as 36 elderly homes. With the assistance of the HKU Social Sciences Research Centre, JCECC conducted a community-wide survey on EoLC in Hong Kong from 2016 and 2018. A total of 4,638 citizens were surveyed and the number of respondents who had an understanding on the EoLC concept increased from 30% in 2016 to 39% in 2018 which showed an increasing public awareness on EoLC. Over 75% of the respondents considered quality of life more important than extension of life should they have a terminal illness, indicating a high demand for EoLC services. A ceremony was held to reveal the project’s achievement in the past 3 years and announce kicking off a second phase which aims to strengthen the connection of the community with the medical care system, and to offer one more option for end-of-life care in Hong Kong.

HKU hosts Water Fun Fest 2019 to promote water sustainability

Water Fun Fest 2019, organised by the Jockey Club Water Initiative on Sustainability and Engagement (JC-WISE), will take place at Ocean Park from April 19 to May 1. Augmented Reality exhibit, AR Sandbox, together with educational videos and exhibitions, will be held. Water Fun Fests aims to engage the general public on the issues of water sustainability and to promote the significance of water conservation in an interesting way through a wide range of infotainment exhibitions and interactive games.