Editors:
- Documents the most common developmental issues among young adolescents in Hong Kong
- Covers curriculum designs for Positive Youth Development in Chinese adolescents
- Presents the developmental outcomes of a large-scale school-based prevention program
- Details the program’s success based on longitudinal data across four years
Part of the book series: Quality of Life in Asia (QLAS, volume 7)
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Student Well-Being and Developmental Issues: Theory
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Front Matter
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Student Well-Being and Developmental Issues in Hong Kong: Primary Prevention
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About this book
This book reviews the theories regarding commonly occurring developmental issues among Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong, the application of Positive Youth Development (PYD) to a large-scale primary prevention program and the impact of PYD on student well-being, indexed according to adolescent developmental issue. Using multiple strategies, it presents the overall constructs and frameworks supporting P.A.T.H.S. in response to the various psychosocial needs of Hong Kong’s youth. Some of the issues covered include substance abuse, sexual behavior, internet addiction, bullying and cyber-bullying. The book argues for the effectiveness of the school-based program in promoting student well-being in modern Hong Kong society and will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, university instructors, researchers, social workers, pediatricians, youth workers, educators, administrators, psychologists, school principals and allied professionals looking to promote whole-person development in junior form students and especially those with an interest in education in China.
Keywords
- Adolescent development in Hong Kong
- Adolescent risk behavior in Hong Kong
- Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong
- Positive youth development in Hong Kong
- School-based prevention program in Hong Kong
- adolescent consumption of pornographic materials in hong kong
- bonding among peers in hong kong schools
- bullying and cyber-bullying in Hong Kong
- concepts of money and success among early adolescents
- family bonding in hong kong
- intention to engage in problem behavior in Hong Kong
- internet addiction in Hong Kong
- resilience among early adolescents in hong kong
- sexual education among Chinese adolescents
- substance abuse in Hong Kong
Reviews
“This book being a valuable tool for health care professionals, it is also hoped that it will inspire researchers to conduct large-scale, longitudinal studies that focus on the risk and protective factors for adolescent development from a holistic perspective. ... Student Well-Being in Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong: Theory, Intervention, and Research isan indispensable book for clinicians and researchers who work with adolescents.” (John A. Yozwiak, Applied Research Quality Life, Vol. 12, 2017)
Editors and Affiliations
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City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China
Tak Yan Lee
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hunghom, Hong Kong, China
Daniel T.L. Shek
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The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
Rachel C. F. Sun
About the editors
Tak Yan Lee (MSW, PhD) is an Associate Professor and Assistant Head of the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong. His teaching and research interests are in positive youth development, social work practice teaching and learning and group work. His research covers adolescent prostitution, positive youth development, parent-child communication, parental control and resilience of children and the elderly. He has provided consultancy to statutory bodies and social service agencies on civic awareness, youth development indices, moral values and behavior, socio-cultural beliefs, gambling behavior and compensated dating. He has published 330 pieces of work, including 50 refereed journal papers, 27 co-edited manual/books, 125 manual/book chapters, 10 professional journal papers, 32 manuals/papers on teaching in social work, 27 contract and consulting research reports, 45 conference papers/presentations, 12 occasional research reports and 2 book reviews.
Daniel T.L. Shek (PhD, FHKPS, BBS, SBS, JP) is Chair Professor of Applied Social Sciences in the Department of Applied Social Sciences and Associate Vice President (Undergraduate Programme), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has taught social work students at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels for roughly thirty years. He was Dean of Students (1996-1998) and Dean of General Education (2006-2008) of New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was elected to be the Best Lecturer teaching the major courses in the Department of Social Work in 1995-1996. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Youth Studies and Applied Research on Quality of Life and he also serves in the editorial board of many international refereed journals including Social Indicators Research and Journal of Adolescent Health. Daniel T.L. Shek has to date published over 85 books, 154 book chapters and more than 500 articles in international refereed journals.
Dr. Rachel C.F. Sun got her BSocSc and PhD at The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. She is Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. She is a Principal Investigator of school misbehavior research studies and Co-Principal Investigator of positive youth development programs and a service leadership program in Hong Kong. Her research areas include academic achievement motivation, school satisfaction, life satisfaction, positive youth development, problem behavior, school misbehavior, adolescent suicidal ideation and psychological health. She is a member of the editorial boards of Research on Social Work Practice and Frontiers in Child Health and Human Development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Student Well-Being in Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong
Book Subtitle: Theory, Intervention and Research
Editors: Tak Yan Lee, Daniel T.L. Shek, Rachel C. F. Sun
Series Title: Quality of Life in Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-582-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-581-5Published: 14 October 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1269-3Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-582-2Published: 02 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2211-0550
Series E-ISSN: 2211-0569
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 348
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Child and School Psychology, Educational Psychology