Marcus Yu Lung Chiu
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 254471 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marcus Yu Lung Chiu |
| NOMBRES | Marcus Yu Lung |
| APELLIDO | Chiu |
| FIRMA | CHIU M Y L |
| AFILIACIONES | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6676-8886 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Involving Caregivers of Older People in Qualitative Evaluation Research
Purpose: This article explores the growing involvement of service users in evaluation research, specifically examining the “Caregiver Support Project” (The Project) designed to assist informal caregivers of frail older adults in Hong Kong. It highlights the essential role and best practices of engaging service users in evaluating the program. Method: A qualitative design was employed, involving two groups of service users: the intervention group …
Nexus Between Exposure to Natural Outdoor Environments and Cognitive Competence among Older Adults in China
With a rapidly aging population and an increasing number of older people with cognitive impairment, a multitude of social problems could arise. The natural outdoor environments (NOEs) surrounding residential areas are important environments as they directly influence the residents’ quality of life and even physical health. A plethora of studies have suggested the definitive impact of NOE on the physical and mental health of older people. There ha…
How does urbanization affect the cognitive function among older adults
The mediating role of flourishing on religious faith and psychological distress
Flourishing is a growing topic in positive psychology, and the positive influences of flourishing have been well documented. Although recent literature has shown that religion has an impact on one’s physical and psychological well-being in positive ways, the relationship between religiosity and flourishing has surprisingly not been studied. The present study aimed to explore the relationship of religious faith with flourishing and psychological d…
Flourishing, psychological distress and internalized stigma among parents of an adult son or daughter with schizophrenia
BACKGROUND: Parents of adults diagnosed with schizophrenia, have been reported to have higher levels of psychological distress than the general population, and parents whose offspring have other mental or physical illnesses. AIM: This study examines the comparatively new construct of flourishing, and its relationship to internalized stigma and psychological distress. METHOD: A cross-sectional survey was conducted between July 2021 and March 2022,…
Supervision of supervisory practice
Little is known about how social work supervisors can be equipped and supported. A qualitative evaluation of a supervision of supervisory practice (SOSp) training programme with nine supervisors with 2 years of experience was done. Benefits for the supervisors were the application of knowledge and skills that improved the supervisory practice, and the opportunity to receive feedback. However, lack of time was a major obstacle for quality supervis…
Dying in a foreign land
Suicide is a public health issue that impacts a nation's resident and non-resident populations alike. Singapore has one of the largest non-resident (work permit holder) populations in the world, yet very little attention has been given to examining suicide in this population. The current study examined the case materials of all 303 non-resident completed suicides in Singapore in the period January 2011 to December 2014. Their basic profiles were …
A qualitative analysis of disclosure of parental incarceration to children in Singapore – Implications for best practice
Children are often the unintended victims of incarceration, and are frequently subjected to extreme hardship following the arrest of a parent, but their right to information is always compromised in the name of protection. Disclosure of incarceration can be equally challenging for both the family caregivers and the children. This paper presents the data from interviews about disclosure of incarceration, looking at how 10 caregiver–child dyadic pa…
Covid-19
The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic has brought untold hardship across the globe. Developed nations have taken relatively commendable actions to quell its impact on livelihood and most have also included social workers in the frontline due to their expertise in working with vulnerable populations. Same cannot be said of developing nations particularly Nigeria who hurriedly copied the measures adopted by the developed nations without carefully cons…
Experiences of Children in Kinship Care (CKC) in Ghana
The provision of care by extended family members and close friends is a common cultural practice in Ghanaian traditional communities. With a recent interest by stakeholders in Ghana to consider kinship care as an alternative care option in child welfare policy, this study explores current kinship care challenges to help identify and address potential setbacks for policy and practice recommendations. In-depth interviews were conducted with 22 youn…
Distress Due to Urinary Problems and Psychosocial Correlates among Retired Men in Hong Kong
Urinary problems are common among aging men, but there is a paucity of research efforts to understand the psychosocial aspects of the illness. This study aims to understand how common and distressing urinary problems are for newly retired men in Hong Kong and to test the associations between mental health, self-stigma of seeking help, fatigue, self-efficacy, self-esteem, and distress due to urinary problems. To assess this, 139 out of 200 members…
Relationship of Anxiety and Depression with Respiratory Symptoms
The rising prevalence of smokers in the community, specifically psychiatric patients, necessitates smoking cessation as an important strategy for reducing the harmful effects of tobacco. This study aims to compare the profiles of depressed and non-depressed smokers and evaluate how psychiatric symptoms influence respiratory symptoms. A cross-sectional survey was administered to 276 non-depressed adult smokers in the community and 69 adult smokers…
Multistressed families in Singapore
Families under multiple stresses present a challenge that requires coordinated multiple helping hands. Drawing on the baseline data, this paper profiles >200 multistressed families (MF) who entered into a specific enhancement programme in Singapore and compares the sociodemographies, family functioning and resilience of the children between transnational and non-transnational families. Findings show these transnational families have significantly…
What makes kinship caregivers unprepared for children in their care? Perspectives and experiences from kinship care alumni in Ghana
Geographical Accessibility of Community Health Assist Scheme General Practitioners for the Elderly Population in Singapore
Accessible primary healthcare is important to national healthcare in general and for older persons in particular, in societies where the population is ageing rapidly, as in Singapore. However, although much policy and research efforts have been put into this area, we hardly find any spatial perspective to assess the accessibility of these primary healthcare services. This paper analyzes the geographical accessibility of one major healthcare servi…
The social and community opportunities profile social inclusion measure
INTRODUCTION: China's future major health problem will be the management of chronic diseases - of which mental health is a major one. An instrument is needed to measure mental health inclusion outcomes for mental health services in Hong Kong and mainland China as they strive to promote a more inclusive society for their citizens and particular disadvantaged groups. AIM: To report on the analysis of structural equivalence and item differentiation …
What does social inclusion mean to Singaporeans? A qualitative study of the concept of social inclusion
In recent years, the term ‘social inclusion’ has more frequently been mentioned in policy initiatives than academic debates in an Asian context that is characterised by fast economic growth, widening poverty gap, ageing populations and prevalent stigma situation for disabled and marginal groups. It may be particularly meaningful to understand what social inclusion means to the people on the ground, in leading societies like Singapore. This paper …
An ecological study of families in transitional housing – ‘housed but not homed’
This article discusses the sense of homelessness among nine homeless families who are in transitional housing in Singapore, where homelessness is minimal and mostly out of the public eye. This study is significant as it investigates homelessness experienced by married couples with children in Singapore, unlike most other research which has examined homelessness among singles or single-parent families, and which is based in Australia, Europe, and …
Social Inclusion and Health Conditions Among Chinese Immigrants in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom
Application of SCOPE-C to Measure Social Inclusion Among Mental Health Services Users in Hong Kong
Relationship Between Health, Experience of Discrimination, and Social Inclusion Among Mental Health Service Users in Hong Kong
Rasch analysis of the SAMHSA Recovery Inventory for Chinese (SAMHSA-RIC)
AIMS: To generate a short version of a newly developed inventory that adopted the conceptual framework of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) consensus statement on recovery. METHODS: Through Rasch analysis, this paper presents how this recovery inventory (SAMHSA-RIC), with its original 111 items, can be reduced to a much shorter version with only 41 items. RESULTS: Although internal consistency is slightly lowe…
Introduction to special issue on recovery
As this special issue indicates, the concept of mental health recovery has made its way to the eastern hemisphere. In some parts of this hemisphere, such as in Australia and New Zealand, the concep
A Concept Mapping Study on Social Inclusion in Hong Kong
Empowering caregivers
BACKGROUND: Education and support for caregivers is lacking in Asia and the peer-led FamilyLink Education Programme (FLEP) is one of the few provisions to address this service gap. This study aims to evaluate quantitatively its efficacy in reducing subjective burdens and empowering the participants. METHOD: One hundred and nine caregiver participants in three Asian cities were successfully surveyed at pre-intervention, post-intervention and six-m…
Stigmatizing experience and structural discrimination associated with the treatment of schizophrenia in Hong Kong
A Concept Mapping Study on Social Inclusion in Hong Kong
Social Inclusion and Health Conditions Among Chinese Immigrants in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom
What makes kinship caregivers unprepared for children in their care? Perspectives and experiences from kinship care alumni in Ghana
Relationship Between Health, Experience of Discrimination, and Social Inclusion Among Mental Health Service Users in Hong Kong
How does urbanization affect the cognitive function among older adults
Multistressed families in Singapore
Families under multiple stresses present a challenge that requires coordinated multiple helping hands. Drawing on the baseline data, this paper profiles >200 multistressed families (MF) who entered into a specific enhancement programme in Singapore and compares the sociodemographies, family functioning and resilience of the children between transnational and non-transnational families. Findings show these transnational families have significantly…
An ecological study of families in transitional housing – ‘housed but not homed’
This article discusses the sense of homelessness among nine homeless families who are in transitional housing in Singapore, where homelessness is minimal and mostly out of the public eye. This study is significant as it investigates homelessness experienced by married couples with children in Singapore, unlike most other research which has examined homelessness among singles or single-parent families, and which is based in Australia, Europe, and …
Application of SCOPE-C to Measure Social Inclusion Among Mental Health Services Users in Hong Kong
The Politics of Citizenship Formation
Supervision of supervisory practice
Little is known about how social work supervisors can be equipped and supported. A qualitative evaluation of a supervision of supervisory practice (SOSp) training programme with nine supervisors with 2 years of experience was done. Benefits for the supervisors were the application of knowledge and skills that improved the supervisory practice, and the opportunity to receive feedback. However, lack of time was a major obstacle for quality supervis…
Experiences of Children in Kinship Care (CKC) in Ghana
The provision of care by extended family members and close friends is a common cultural practice in Ghanaian traditional communities. With a recent interest by stakeholders in Ghana to consider kinship care as an alternative care option in child welfare policy, this study explores current kinship care challenges to help identify and address potential setbacks for policy and practice recommendations. In-depth interviews were conducted with 22 youn…
Single mothers or women in single parenthood (Wisp)? A report and reflection on the development of a brief marital metaphor questionnaire (MMQ-10)
Metaphor is embedded with representations of both experience and longing and can go far beyond problem representations in exploring marital experience. This paper reports the development of a marital metaphor questionnaire and its use with 123 Chinese single mothers. Lower marital satisfaction does correlate with their ratings of marital experience, but not with their general attitude toward marriage. The implications are discussed as to how mari…
Experience of social stigma by people with schizophrenia in Hong Kong
BACKGROUND: Research on stigma often focuses on general public attitudes and overlooks patients' subjective experiences of everyday stigma arising from significant others. AIMS: To document and compare the interpersonal experiences of stigma in patients with schizophrenia and patients with diabetes mellitus in Hong Kong. METHOD: Four focus groups were conducted to generate a self-report questionnaire. Data were collected from out-patients with sc…
Personal Tragedy or System Failure
Background: Most studies agree that mental illness brings a heavy objective and subjective burden of care on the family and especially the caregivers. However, very little attention has been paid to the wider context in which this burden is shaped and sustained. Material: In-depth interviews were conducted with 11 caregivers in Hong Kong and Taiwan and subsequent analysis identified four major themes: mystical knowledge beyond understanding, pers…
Stigmatizing experience and structural discrimination associated with the treatment of schizophrenia in Hong Kong
Community Attitudes Towards Discriminatory Practice Against People with Severe Mental Illness in Hong Kong
Background: The existing literature on community attitudes towards people with severe mental illness (SMI) tends to be rather general and impressionistic, with apparently conflicting findings which have yet to be adequately understood. Aims: This article undertakes to examine the community's level of tolerance towards discriminatory practice against people with SMI in three domains: family relations, employment and health care. Methods: Structure…
The Politics of Citizenship Formation
Operationalization of the SAMHSA model of recovery
Predictors of Dating Violence Among Chinese Adolescents
In Chinese societies, violence among adolescent dating partners remains a largely ignored and invisible phenomenon. The goal of this study is to examine the relationships among gender-role beliefs, attitudes justifying dating violence, and the experiences of dating-violence perpetration and victimization among Chinese adolescents. This study has used self-reporting measures to collect data from a probability sample of 976 adolescents (mean age = …
Empowering caregivers
BACKGROUND: Education and support for caregivers is lacking in Asia and the peer-led FamilyLink Education Programme (FLEP) is one of the few provisions to address this service gap. This study aims to evaluate quantitatively its efficacy in reducing subjective burdens and empowering the participants. METHOD: One hundred and nine caregiver participants in three Asian cities were successfully surveyed at pre-intervention, post-intervention and six-m…
Single mothers or women in single parenthood (Wisp)? A report and reflection on the development of a brief marital metaphor questionnaire (MMQ-10)
Metaphor is embedded with representations of both experience and longing and can go far beyond problem representations in exploring marital experience. This paper reports the development of a marital metaphor questionnaire and its use with 123 Chinese single mothers. Lower marital satisfaction does correlate with their ratings of marital experience, but not with their general attitude toward marriage. The implications are discussed as to how mari…
Rasch analysis of the SAMHSA Recovery Inventory for Chinese (SAMHSA-RIC)
AIMS: To generate a short version of a newly developed inventory that adopted the conceptual framework of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) consensus statement on recovery. METHODS: Through Rasch analysis, this paper presents how this recovery inventory (SAMHSA-RIC), with its original 111 items, can be reduced to a much shorter version with only 41 items. RESULTS: Although internal consistency is slightly lowe…
Introduction to special issue on recovery
As this special issue indicates, the concept of mental health recovery has made its way to the eastern hemisphere. In some parts of this hemisphere, such as in Australia and New Zealand, the concep
A Concept Mapping Study on Social Inclusion in Hong Kong
Application of SCOPE-C to Measure Social Inclusion Among Mental Health Services Users in Hong Kong
Relationship Between Health, Experience of Discrimination, and Social Inclusion Among Mental Health Service Users in Hong Kong
The social and community opportunities profile social inclusion measure
INTRODUCTION: China's future major health problem will be the management of chronic diseases - of which mental health is a major one. An instrument is needed to measure mental health inclusion outcomes for mental health services in Hong Kong and mainland China as they strive to promote a more inclusive society for their citizens and particular disadvantaged groups. AIM: To report on the analysis of structural equivalence and item differentiation …
What does social inclusion mean to Singaporeans? A qualitative study of the concept of social inclusion
In recent years, the term ‘social inclusion’ has more frequently been mentioned in policy initiatives than academic debates in an Asian context that is characterised by fast economic growth, widening poverty gap, ageing populations and prevalent stigma situation for disabled and marginal groups. It may be particularly meaningful to understand what social inclusion means to the people on the ground, in leading societies like Singapore. This paper …
An ecological study of families in transitional housing – ‘housed but not homed’
This article discusses the sense of homelessness among nine homeless families who are in transitional housing in Singapore, where homelessness is minimal and mostly out of the public eye. This study is significant as it investigates homelessness experienced by married couples with children in Singapore, unlike most other research which has examined homelessness among singles or single-parent families, and which is based in Australia, Europe, and …
Social Inclusion and Health Conditions Among Chinese Immigrants in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom
Geographical Accessibility of Community Health Assist Scheme General Practitioners for the Elderly Population in Singapore
Accessible primary healthcare is important to national healthcare in general and for older persons in particular, in societies where the population is ageing rapidly, as in Singapore. However, although much policy and research efforts have been put into this area, we hardly find any spatial perspective to assess the accessibility of these primary healthcare services. This paper analyzes the geographical accessibility of one major healthcare servi…
Relationship of Anxiety and Depression with Respiratory Symptoms
The rising prevalence of smokers in the community, specifically psychiatric patients, necessitates smoking cessation as an important strategy for reducing the harmful effects of tobacco. This study aims to compare the profiles of depressed and non-depressed smokers and evaluate how psychiatric symptoms influence respiratory symptoms. A cross-sectional survey was administered to 276 non-depressed adult smokers in the community and 69 adult smokers…
Multistressed families in Singapore
Families under multiple stresses present a challenge that requires coordinated multiple helping hands. Drawing on the baseline data, this paper profiles >200 multistressed families (MF) who entered into a specific enhancement programme in Singapore and compares the sociodemographies, family functioning and resilience of the children between transnational and non-transnational families. Findings show these transnational families have significantly…
What makes kinship caregivers unprepared for children in their care? Perspectives and experiences from kinship care alumni in Ghana
Distress Due to Urinary Problems and Psychosocial Correlates among Retired Men in Hong Kong
Urinary problems are common among aging men, but there is a paucity of research efforts to understand the psychosocial aspects of the illness. This study aims to understand how common and distressing urinary problems are for newly retired men in Hong Kong and to test the associations between mental health, self-stigma of seeking help, fatigue, self-efficacy, self-esteem, and distress due to urinary problems. To assess this, 139 out of 200 members…
A qualitative analysis of disclosure of parental incarceration to children in Singapore – Implications for best practice
Children are often the unintended victims of incarceration, and are frequently subjected to extreme hardship following the arrest of a parent, but their right to information is always compromised in the name of protection. Disclosure of incarceration can be equally challenging for both the family caregivers and the children. This paper presents the data from interviews about disclosure of incarceration, looking at how 10 caregiver–child dyadic pa…
Covid-19
The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic has brought untold hardship across the globe. Developed nations have taken relatively commendable actions to quell its impact on livelihood and most have also included social workers in the frontline due to their expertise in working with vulnerable populations. Same cannot be said of developing nations particularly Nigeria who hurriedly copied the measures adopted by the developed nations without carefully cons…
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