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College stress and psychological well-being: vision in life as a coping resource
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Resilience and vulnerability of parent caregivers with a child suffering from early-stage schizophrenia in urban China: an exploratory study
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The roles of social support in antenatal and postnatal depressive symptoms and family conflicts among Hong Kong Chinese women: a three-wave prospective longitudinal study
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How parenting stress and social support affect the demand for respite care services for caregivers having children with mental handicaps inHong Kong
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The dynamics of family relationship in male adolescent drug rehabilitation
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
走出抑鬱的深谷－「認知治療」自學／輔助手冊
No full text香港人生活緊張、工作繁忙，大部份人對自己的身體及精神健康，向來只停留於認知上的關注，卻少有行動上的配合，以致部份人士不幸患上抑鬱症。社會上雖然有不少人士有抑鬱症的徵狀，但因生活忙碌或諱疾忌醫，而沒有參與一些輔導小組或其他相關課程。
事實上，不少外國研究均證明「認知治療」對改善抑鬱症有卓越的果效。此自學/輔助手冊便是讓有需要的人士透過有系統的步驟及生活化的例子，使他們應用「認知治療」來幫助自己。每個人都有能力學習怎樣處理個人的情緒，免使自己陷入憂鬱的景況，而這本手冊對患有輕度及中度抑鬱症狀的人士尤為有效。
本書名稱為《走出抑鬱的深谷：『認知治療』自學/輔助手冊》，這個名稱是有特別的涵義。很多患有抑鬱症的人士，在處於抑鬱的狀態中，往往感覺自己像跌進無助、無望、無力的深谷中，他們需要付出很多的努力，加上別人的指引和鼓勵，才能逃離幽暗的深谷。這本書的名稱是提醒他們要主動幫助自己離開深谷，而這個過程正是需要一些時間及不斷學習的
An exploratory study of the process of becoming a problem gambler: a Hong Kong Chinese male study
No full textBackground: This study was driven by the belief in the need to expand our understanding of the experience of people with problem gambling. Although there are increasing studies in explaining problem gambling, there is a lack of studies from a meaning-making perspective. Most of the existing models explaining problem gambling place less emphasis on the surrounding system, such as family and peers, which may have an interactive relationship with one’s gambling behaviour. Besides, gambling studies with a focus on culture often involve participants of minority groups and non-mainstream status, which is different from the local context in a Chinese-dominant country. Hence it is worthwhile to understand people with problem gambling in the local context by consideration of their meaning-making toward gambling and their interaction with surrounding systems.
Objectives: The study aims to develop understanding of the indigenous pathway(s) of becoming problem gamblers and how such problem behaviour is maintained. The main focuses of this study are how do males develop from social gamblers to problem gamblers, how do they experience themselves as problem gamblers, how may the differences in experiences result in different consequences, and what are some possible factors that initiate and maintain such process.
Methods: With reference to the theoretical framework of symbolic interactionism, a qualitative research methodology was employed. In-depth interviews were conducted to allow the researcher to listen to the stories and the subjective experiences of the participants. A rich pool of data in the forms of narratives and sketches of gambling history timelines was collected. QSR NVIVO software was used to help data analysis.
Results: The findings revealed how these men experienced the relationship with gambling and made meaning toward their gambling behaviour. Six stages, engagement, enjoyment, immersion, entrapment, separation and termination, were identified with reference to their meaning-making toward gambling. It was identified that there are dynamic interactions among the relationship with gambling, intra-personal relationship and interpersonal relationships in each stage. Vulnerability factors, maintenance factors and exiting factors, which have their roles in driving individuals from one stage to another, were identified and used as significant indicators for the typology of people with gambling problems. This study constructed a five-group typology: a chronic emptiness group, an overly-dependent group, an overly self-demanding group, a prolonged interpersonal distressed group and a brief and intensely distressed group. A process model of Chinese Hong Kong male problem gambling was proposed, which has significant implications for theoretical knowledge and practice.
Conclusion: This study makes a significant contribution by widening our understanding of the experience of people with problem gambling. It informs us of the important role of meaning making toward gambling and what purpose gambling has served for the people. Meanwhile, it proposes the importance of looking into the interaction dynamics among one’s relationship with gambling, intrapersonal relationship and interpersonal relationships.published_or_final_versionSocial Work and Social AdministrationDoctoralDoctor of Philosoph
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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