Chitat Chan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3701549 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Chitat Chan |
| NOMBRES | Chitat |
| APELLIDO | Chan |
| FIRMA | CHAN C |
| AFILIACIONES | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4674-9597 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Dialogues of strength
Ethnic minority (EM) youth in Hong Kong face unique challenges and are often viewed through a deficit-focused lens that overlooks their strengths. A dialogue-based digital storytelling (DDST) practice, developed by academic researchers and an NGO, adopts a strengths-based approach to empower EM youth. This exploratory qualitative study used thematic analysis of participants’ narratives, collected through training sessions, interviews, meetings, a…
Is Digital Social Work a Cohesive Body of Knowledge? A Bibliometric Review
Background Integrating digital technologies into social work practice has become increasingly significant, with new developments occurring in the artificial intelligence (AI) era, reshaping service delivery and interdisciplinary collaboration. This bibliometric-systematic review examines the scope and evolution of digital technologies in social work. This is a review that examines the body of knowledge as a whole, rather than focusing on the effe…
Our journey with an AI assistant offering narrative therapy on WhatsApp
This study examines the integration of AI chatbots into social work, with a focus on democratising AI for use in Narrative Therapy (NT). As AI becomes more accessible, social work encounters new opportunities to utilise these tools in practice, but also faces significant challenges. The study explores the feasibility of using customisable GPT platforms to develop an AI chatbot for NT sessions and assesses its performance. An autoethnographic case…
Democratizing Artificial Intelligence for Social Good
This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the opportunities for democratizing artificial intelligence (AI) for social good using a bibliometric–systematic literature review method. It combines the quantitative analysis of bibliometric methods with the qualitative synthesis of systematic reviews. This approach helps identify patterns, trends, and gaps in the literature, advancing theoretical insights and mapping future research directions. D…
Teaching about Marginalized Groups Using a Digital Human Library
This paper presents lessons learned from a project inspired by digital storytelling and the human library to reduce prejudices against marginalized groups. By comparing the outcomes of similar participants in different settings over the same period, the study explored which types of activities might be pivotal when influencing the perspective-taking attitudes of participants. The study used a case study approach, with data from the digital human …
Evolving narrative practices in Chinese contexts
Developing a natural language-based AI-chatbot for social work training
A chatbot is a computer program designed to simulate conversation with human users. In social services, many chatbots are retrieval based: they analyse users’ intents and retrieve preset answers based on decision tree logic. A major limitation of these earlier chatbots was that their conversations were rigid, unnatural, and sounded like a multiple-choice questionnaire. Recent achievements in large-scale generative pretrained transformers (LGPTs) …
Digital technologies and evolving narrative practice
When narrative practice suddenly goes online due to Covid-19
This article is a reflective consolidation of our practice experience in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 period, in which social work educators and practitioners needed to work online in a prolonged period of social distancing. It illustrates in what ways online practices may denote emerging knowledge and skills that are worth further discussion. These reflections have been consolidated as four knowledge/skill domains in our afterthoughts: i) Conte…
Using story retelling to enhance social work students’ openness to diversity
Based on the results from a story-retelling workshop for social work students in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), this paper suggests that narrative activities can make unique contributions in nurturing students’ openness to diversity, and such potential is under-researched. This research is a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT). The workshop arranged students to read website materia…
Covid-19 pandemic and social work responses in Chinese societies
The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a devastating impact on a global scale. Its impact has been not only on the health of citizens but also on different aspects of our living. In Hong Kong, we could
Utilizing Youth Media Practice to Influence Change
Purpose: Youth media practice (YMP) refers to various activities through which young people are empowered to express their views and develop critical reflectiveness via media productions. There is scant empirical research about YMP’s effectiveness. This study developed and field-tested an information and communication technology (ICT)–based YMP. Method: By using “My National/Ethnic Identity” as a heuristic production theme, a pilot study was cond…
Using digital storytelling to facilitate critical thinking disposition in youth civic engagement
Digital Storytelling (DST) is a storytelling practice that is interwoven with digital media, including images, texts, sounds, and other elements. This study specifically designed a DST project based on a dialogic orientation and examined to what extent it could promote young participants’ critical and reflective mindsets. By using civic identity as a heuristic production theme, a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) was conducted in Hong Kong in 2019. …
Analysing social networks for social work practice
Introduction to social work
The book Introduction to Social Work: The People’s Profession had its first edition published in 2001, second edition in 2004, third edition in 2010, and now the fourth edition in 2016 (Colby and D
A Review of Information and Communication Technology Enhanced Social Work Interventions
Objectives: Information and communications technology (ICT) has impacted almost all human service disciplines and currently is evolving in social work. This study provides a systematic review of ICT-enhanced social work interventions, with particular reference to their intervention fidelity (IF), validity, and the role of ICT in the helping relationship process. Method: We assessed specific articles published in journals classified under the “Soc…
Selected Recent Articles About Chinese Instrument/Scale Development and Intervention Research
We are pleased to present this special edition of Research on Social Work Practice based upon a set of recent selected empirical studies on Chinese instrument/scale development and intervention research. Specifically, these selected articles reflected the types of designs submitted for publication to Research on Social Work Practice in 2015–2016 and also their methodological quality. Prior to presenting introductory comments about these articles,…
An Overview of the Use of Mechanical Turk in Behavioral Sciences
Crowdsourcing is a process in which a firm parcels out work to a “crowd” and offers payment for anyone within the crowd who completes the task determined by that firm. A growing number of behavioral scientists have begun using the Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to facilitate their research and practice, but there is apparently not one academic study in social work reporting the use of crowdsourcing tools. Social work professionals have the responsibilit…
Young Activists and the Anti-Patriotic Education Movement in Post-Colonial Hong Kong
An extraordinary large-scale student movement in Hong Kong successfully forced the government to withdraw a patriotic education proposal in 2012. The student group has attracted serious scrutiny from the pro-government camp because of the students' unusually young age and remarkable mobilising power. This study aims to explore the community structures and identify significant members in the student network, and to shed light on understanding of t…
The deficit representation of youth at different levels of curriculum-making
This study explores whether the deficit approach to understanding youth, which has been widely critiqued in contemporary youth studies, could still be a dominant paradigm in an emerging curriculum which emphasises multiple-perspective thinking. The analysis compares the representations of youth in selected reference sources at different levels of curriculum-making of the Liberal Studies (LS) curriculum in Hong Kong. These includes: (1) the offici…
Young Activists and the Anti-Patriotic Education Movement in Post-Colonial Hong Kong
An extraordinary large-scale student movement in Hong Kong successfully forced the government to withdraw a patriotic education proposal in 2012. The student group has attracted serious scrutiny from the pro-government camp because of the students' unusually young age and remarkable mobilising power. This study aims to explore the community structures and identify significant members in the student network, and to shed light on understanding of t…
Utilizing Youth Media Practice to Influence Change
Purpose: Youth media practice (YMP) refers to various activities through which young people are empowered to express their views and develop critical reflectiveness via media productions. There is scant empirical research about YMP’s effectiveness. This study developed and field-tested an information and communication technology (ICT)–based YMP. Method: By using “My National/Ethnic Identity” as a heuristic production theme, a pilot study was cond…
An Overview of the Use of Mechanical Turk in Behavioral Sciences
Crowdsourcing is a process in which a firm parcels out work to a “crowd” and offers payment for anyone within the crowd who completes the task determined by that firm. A growing number of behavioral scientists have begun using the Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to facilitate their research and practice, but there is apparently not one academic study in social work reporting the use of crowdsourcing tools. Social work professionals have the responsibilit…
Using story retelling to enhance social work students’ openness to diversity
Based on the results from a story-retelling workshop for social work students in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), this paper suggests that narrative activities can make unique contributions in nurturing students’ openness to diversity, and such potential is under-researched. This research is a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT). The workshop arranged students to read website materia…
Evolving narrative practices in Chinese contexts
Developing a natural language-based AI-chatbot for social work training
A chatbot is a computer program designed to simulate conversation with human users. In social services, many chatbots are retrieval based: they analyse users’ intents and retrieve preset answers based on decision tree logic. A major limitation of these earlier chatbots was that their conversations were rigid, unnatural, and sounded like a multiple-choice questionnaire. Recent achievements in large-scale generative pretrained transformers (LGPTs) …
Covid-19 pandemic and social work responses in Chinese societies
The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a devastating impact on a global scale. Its impact has been not only on the health of citizens but also on different aspects of our living. In Hong Kong, we could
Analysing social networks for social work practice
Introduction to social work
The book Introduction to Social Work: The People’s Profession had its first edition published in 2001, second edition in 2004, third edition in 2010, and now the fourth edition in 2016 (Colby and D
The deficit representation of youth at different levels of curriculum-making
This study explores whether the deficit approach to understanding youth, which has been widely critiqued in contemporary youth studies, could still be a dominant paradigm in an emerging curriculum which emphasises multiple-perspective thinking. The analysis compares the representations of youth in selected reference sources at different levels of curriculum-making of the Liberal Studies (LS) curriculum in Hong Kong. These includes: (1) the offici…
The deficit representation of youth at different levels of curriculum-making
This study explores whether the deficit approach to understanding youth, which has been widely critiqued in contemporary youth studies, could still be a dominant paradigm in an emerging curriculum which emphasises multiple-perspective thinking. The analysis compares the representations of youth in selected reference sources at different levels of curriculum-making of the Liberal Studies (LS) curriculum in Hong Kong. These includes: (1) the offici…
Young Activists and the Anti-Patriotic Education Movement in Post-Colonial Hong Kong
An extraordinary large-scale student movement in Hong Kong successfully forced the government to withdraw a patriotic education proposal in 2012. The student group has attracted serious scrutiny from the pro-government camp because of the students' unusually young age and remarkable mobilising power. This study aims to explore the community structures and identify significant members in the student network, and to shed light on understanding of t…
An Overview of the Use of Mechanical Turk in Behavioral Sciences
Crowdsourcing is a process in which a firm parcels out work to a “crowd” and offers payment for anyone within the crowd who completes the task determined by that firm. A growing number of behavioral scientists have begun using the Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to facilitate their research and practice, but there is apparently not one academic study in social work reporting the use of crowdsourcing tools. Social work professionals have the responsibilit…
A Review of Information and Communication Technology Enhanced Social Work Interventions
Objectives: Information and communications technology (ICT) has impacted almost all human service disciplines and currently is evolving in social work. This study provides a systematic review of ICT-enhanced social work interventions, with particular reference to their intervention fidelity (IF), validity, and the role of ICT in the helping relationship process. Method: We assessed specific articles published in journals classified under the “Soc…
Selected Recent Articles About Chinese Instrument/Scale Development and Intervention Research
We are pleased to present this special edition of Research on Social Work Practice based upon a set of recent selected empirical studies on Chinese instrument/scale development and intervention research. Specifically, these selected articles reflected the types of designs submitted for publication to Research on Social Work Practice in 2015–2016 and also their methodological quality. Prior to presenting introductory comments about these articles,…
Introduction to social work
The book Introduction to Social Work: The People’s Profession had its first edition published in 2001, second edition in 2004, third edition in 2010, and now the fourth edition in 2016 (Colby and D
Analysing social networks for social work practice
Utilizing Youth Media Practice to Influence Change
Purpose: Youth media practice (YMP) refers to various activities through which young people are empowered to express their views and develop critical reflectiveness via media productions. There is scant empirical research about YMP’s effectiveness. This study developed and field-tested an information and communication technology (ICT)–based YMP. Method: By using “My National/Ethnic Identity” as a heuristic production theme, a pilot study was cond…
Using digital storytelling to facilitate critical thinking disposition in youth civic engagement
Digital Storytelling (DST) is a storytelling practice that is interwoven with digital media, including images, texts, sounds, and other elements. This study specifically designed a DST project based on a dialogic orientation and examined to what extent it could promote young participants’ critical and reflective mindsets. By using civic identity as a heuristic production theme, a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) was conducted in Hong Kong in 2019. …
When narrative practice suddenly goes online due to Covid-19
This article is a reflective consolidation of our practice experience in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 period, in which social work educators and practitioners needed to work online in a prolonged period of social distancing. It illustrates in what ways online practices may denote emerging knowledge and skills that are worth further discussion. These reflections have been consolidated as four knowledge/skill domains in our afterthoughts: i) Conte…
Using story retelling to enhance social work students’ openness to diversity
Based on the results from a story-retelling workshop for social work students in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), this paper suggests that narrative activities can make unique contributions in nurturing students’ openness to diversity, and such potential is under-researched. This research is a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT). The workshop arranged students to read website materia…
Covid-19 pandemic and social work responses in Chinese societies
The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a devastating impact on a global scale. Its impact has been not only on the health of citizens but also on different aspects of our living. In Hong Kong, we could
Digital technologies and evolving narrative practice
Evolving narrative practices in Chinese contexts
Developing a natural language-based AI-chatbot for social work training
A chatbot is a computer program designed to simulate conversation with human users. In social services, many chatbots are retrieval based: they analyse users’ intents and retrieve preset answers based on decision tree logic. A major limitation of these earlier chatbots was that their conversations were rigid, unnatural, and sounded like a multiple-choice questionnaire. Recent achievements in large-scale generative pretrained transformers (LGPTs) …
Teaching about Marginalized Groups Using a Digital Human Library
This paper presents lessons learned from a project inspired by digital storytelling and the human library to reduce prejudices against marginalized groups. By comparing the outcomes of similar participants in different settings over the same period, the study explored which types of activities might be pivotal when influencing the perspective-taking attitudes of participants. The study used a case study approach, with data from the digital human …
Our journey with an AI assistant offering narrative therapy on WhatsApp
This study examines the integration of AI chatbots into social work, with a focus on democratising AI for use in Narrative Therapy (NT). As AI becomes more accessible, social work encounters new opportunities to utilise these tools in practice, but also faces significant challenges. The study explores the feasibility of using customisable GPT platforms to develop an AI chatbot for NT sessions and assesses its performance. An autoethnographic case…
Democratizing Artificial Intelligence for Social Good
This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the opportunities for democratizing artificial intelligence (AI) for social good using a bibliometric–systematic literature review method. It combines the quantitative analysis of bibliometric methods with the qualitative synthesis of systematic reviews. This approach helps identify patterns, trends, and gaps in the literature, advancing theoretical insights and mapping future research directions. D…
Dialogues of strength
Ethnic minority (EM) youth in Hong Kong face unique challenges and are often viewed through a deficit-focused lens that overlooks their strengths. A dialogue-based digital storytelling (DDST) practice, developed by academic researchers and an NGO, adopts a strengths-based approach to empower EM youth. This exploratory qualitative study used thematic analysis of participants’ narratives, collected through training sessions, interviews, meetings, a…
Is Digital Social Work a Cohesive Body of Knowledge? A Bibliometric Review
Background Integrating digital technologies into social work practice has become increasingly significant, with new developments occurring in the artificial intelligence (AI) era, reshaping service delivery and interdisciplinary collaboration. This bibliometric-systematic review examines the scope and evolution of digital technologies in social work. This is a review that examines the body of knowledge as a whole, rather than focusing on the effe…
Sociology (14 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Computer Science (11 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Narrative (8 obras) · Social Work (8 obras) · Social Work Education and Practice (8 obras) · Medicine (5 obras) · Pedagogy (5 obras) · Public relations (5 obras)