Ming‐sum Tsui
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4431535 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ming‐sum Tsui |
| NOMBRES | Ming‐sum |
| APELLIDO | Tsui |
| FIRMA | TSUI M S |
| AFILIACIONES | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9010-4166 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 72 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 296 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Learning from the life of Dr Jane Goodall for social work practice and humanistic practice
Ethics of care for carer service and policy
This article introduces a conceptual framework that integrates feminist ethics of care into social work practice, focusing on the complexities of informal caregiving in Hong Kong. It highlights the often-overlooked role of informal carers in social services and identifies the gaps in current practices. The authors emphasise the need for recognition and resources for carers. This effort addresses the global challenges informal carers face and prom…
Evidence, truth, fact, claim, belief or view? – Social work knowledge in a new dynamic world of digital information
Using mirrors and lenses for reflection in social work
Eliminating gender-based violence can unlock the solutions to ending all violence
What if it were our children
Standing with children in situations of wars and military conflict
Children are our future. At a very critical time in world history in 1937, Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012) stated that society is best measured on its moral integrity in how it treats children. Sadly, since this famous quote, children remain caught in wars and military conflicts initiated by adults in many locations around the world
International social work is both the South and the North
Both of us, as the Co-Chief Editors of International Social Work Journal (ISWJ), have just been at the Social Work and Social Development (SWSD) World Congress in Panama City, and we are now back home. The Panama SWSD 2024 was the first time since 2018 in Dublin when our global community has got together. It was amazing to meet with old friends and comrades after all that we have seen in the last 5 years, while making new connections and colleagu…
Social work with frustrations
Social work as a shared dream’
When we practice social work, we are in a pursuit of love and social justice with hope and dream. Social dreaming about what is possible has been termed by Lawrence (2018) as the foreground to transformative thinking. A powerful force for moving beyond the status quo. Without the dream, there will be no imagination for achieving the mission impossible in the future, there will be a lack of passion for accompanying our clients in the process of ta…
Walking with and empowering family caregivers – Roles and functions of social workers
Each society has an often invisible and tireless group of unpaid people who look after and support their family members in their daily survival, care, nurturance, empowerment and growth. Without their unwavering care and selflessness, our social and health support systems would break, and their loved ones would be left exclusively in the care of strangers
Working in disasters
Most of us may agree that we are living in a very uncertain and unstable world, and there are different kinds of disasters every day in various parts of the world. Although we are not experts in disaster management, it is easy to understand that disasters can be divided into two major categories: (1) natural disasters and (2) human disasters
AI and social work
At the very beginning, as the Editors, we need to claim that this editorial is not written by Chat GPT, but our minds, eyes and hands. We also write with intuition and our hearts something artificial intelligence (AI) cannot freely replicate
Back to future
After almost 3 years, it seems that the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic and its variants is subsiding. The number of infected cases is decreasing, the loss of life is reducing, and social and economic activities are resuming. In most parts of the world, lockdowns are no longer the preferred response. People can smile without their masks and give a hug to each other. Tourists travel all over the world again. The planes are now flying in the sky inst…
Disrupting social work ethics
Social work locates itself as a value-based profession. The profession would not hold such status without an ethical framework and code to practice social work purpose and functions. Without ethics, we could not apply the values and theories of social work at micro- through to macrolevels of practice. Indeed, ethics ensures our operational framework and accountability to the communities we serve
Lived experience
Centring and valuing lived experience flips the dynamic where traditionally knowledge and expertise on a problem often comes from professions, institutions, authorities, and governments that have studied or assessed a situation detached from direct experience. The term ‘lived experience’ has gained greater prominence in social work. It refers to personal knowledge gained from direct experience that would not ordinarily be apparent through observa…
Dealing and Living with Omicron in the Pandemic
At the beginning of November 2021, a new variant virus of COVID-19, OMICRON was identified by the medical scientists. Within three months, millions of people in different parts of the world have been infected in the wave of this new virus tsunami. This Greek letter, OMICRON, has become well known to everyone in all parts of the world as it has become the most dominant virus variant
Social work practice for togetherness in a divided world
‘Working with people’ and ‘getting united’ are always the terms used in our daily social work practice. This explains why we always walk with our clients, their families, and communities for individual well-being and the common good. Here we recognize that collective well-being and togetherness has a direct relationship to individual well-being. As social workers, we always use our voice to call out the human rights of our clients and never give …
Social work in times of Geo-Political and Military Conflict
Like a virus, the threat of Geo-Political and Military Conflict can build and quickly result in catastrophic results for human life. As individuals, we have little power to avert such tragedies. Making sense of these troubling times on our own can be demoralising. Yet collectively we have a united responsibility to value humanity in such times. We as social workers may differ in our views, but our core values of preserving human life unite us eve…
Child Well-Being and Rights in the Covid-19 Pandemic
The world’s current generation of children will never forget the dramatic time of the COVID-19 Pandemic and its impact on schooling, family contact and home life. They also will remember who helped and stood up for them and whether they felt cared for and safe. In most cases the virus has caused relatively minor illness amongst children
Sacrifices for child rights and well-being during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The world’s current generation of children will never forget the dramatic time of the COVID-19 Pandemic and its impact on schooling, family contact and home life. They also will remember who helped and stood up for them and whether they felt cared for and safe. In most cases, the virus has caused relatively minor illness among children. Measures such as lockdown, quarantine and closed borders have been primarily used to protect adults from seriou…
Social work practice in the era of economic uncertainties
As social workers, of course, we work for meaning, not for money. However, it does not mean that we do not need money or know about money. Many social workers think that the core components of social work intervention are mainly related to ‘relationships’, including intra-personal, inter-personal, intra-organizational, inter-organizational, international and even human–nature relationships
Social work with families in the pandemic of Covid-19
We have been facing the pandemic of COVID-19 for nearly 2 years. It seems that there is still a long way to go. Humanity faces choices to either fight against it or live with the virus and its variants. During this difficult period, there is no way for us just to wait and see, we have to stand up and face it together. Family as the basic unit of our society will become our base for this battle. In fact, during the pandemic, our families have been…
A bridge over the troubled water
Every morning, when we wake up, there is always sad news about dividedness, separation, and conflicts. Thousands of people lose their lives, families, and homes only because of differences that cannot be resolved. The dividedness exists not only between regions, religions, and race, but also between gender and generations, and also between social classes, ethnicities, and cultures. Furthermore, there is tension between globalization and de-global…
All people matter – Global vaccine equity and human rights
As we move through the first half of 2021, world attention remains on the COVID-19 response. High-income countries move toward vaccine rollouts as the panacea to reclaim normality and rebuild economies. At a fundamental level, decisions are being made as to who should be prioritized to receive a vaccine as the mammoth logistical arrangements are implemented. These have been primarily questions for nation states managing local populations to prior…
Social work as a moral and political practice
English In their efforts to promote the Global Standards for the Education and Training of the Social Work Profession, the authors discovered the withering of the moral and political bases of social work practice in the West. The revitalization of the roots of social work is important to the promotion of social justice. French Dans leurs efforts pour promouvoir les Standards Mondiaux pour l’Enseignement et la Formation aux Professions Sociales, l…
From resilience to resistance
Many practice models in social work focus primarily on the concepts associated with resilience. By contrast, resistance and rebellion, important strategies of the disadvantaged, are often neglected by social workers in developed countries. The authors seek to reconstruct and revitalize the strengths perspective by constructing a framework that includes theories of reflective practice
Examining the neoliberal discourse of accountability
Social workers always strive for an intricate balance between the competitive demands of different discourses of accountability. However, the neoliberal welfare regime, which privileges the ideologies of free market choice and managerial control, has synchronized the different discourses into a neoliberal discourse of accountability. Using Hong Kong as an example, this article examines how this discourse is put into practice and how it demoralize…
Gone with the Wind
Journal Article Gone with the Wind: The Impacts of Managerialism on Human Services Get access Ming-sum Tsui, Ming-sum Tsui Dr Ming-sum Tsui is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Applied Social Sciences, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include: supervision, human service management, social work theory and practice, and substance abuse. He is the author of many articles and his most recent work is Social Work Supervis…
The Boundaries of the Social Work Relationship Revisited
In all professional relationships, there are power imbalances and the potential for discrimination and exploitation. To safeguard against such violations, the concept of professional boundaries is advocated, yet the construction of these boundaries is presented as if it is rudimentary for everyone. Historically, the professional boundaries created within the field of social work have been influenced by other professions, most notably medicine. In…
The nature of practice wisdom in social work revisited
English Social work knowledge cannot be adequately articulated by the positivistic epistemology. It arises from the judgements rather than the techniques. Forms of knowledge acquisition and utilization must be reinvented so that there is a close and equal partnership among the profession, practitioners and students. This will enable social workers to discover, articulate and use their knowledge most effectively. French L'épistémologie positiviste…
The quest for western social work knowledge
English Despite the fast development of social work education, scholars in China are eager to import and adapt western social work knowledge which is portrayed as a monolithic entity. Using a case study of American social work literature, we question the existence of a monolithic system of western knowledge. French En dé pit du développement rapide de la formation en travail social, les étudiants chinois sont pressé s d’importer et d’adapter le s…
Towards a professional supervision culture
This article reviews the development of social work supervision within New Zealand (NZ) and identifies that supervision in NZ has developed a distinctive professional culture in four respects: recognition and acceptance of plurality and diversity, culturally based approaches, use of the concept of cultural supervision, and commitment to competent social work practice. From the literature reviewed it is asserted that New Zealand’s experience provi…
Inspiring hope through social work practice
Hope has dynamic features that look to the future and motivate people. Yet despite being synonymous with social work, psychological terms have tended to define hope’s perimeters. Its role in social work is often heralded, yet its unique, critical and temporal role has not been well mapped in social work theory. This article explores the use of hope in social work practice. A conceptual framework highlights the richness of hope, its application in…
Functions of social work supervision in Hong Kong
English The functions of social work supervision in Hong Kong are characterized by three distinct features: consensus between the supervisor and the supervisee, discussion of personal matters and team building. These distinct features reflect characteristics of the Chinese cultural context. Supervision is not only organizational and professional, but also personal and cultural. French Trois aspects caractérisent les fonctions du travail social à …
Social Work Supervision Research (1970-2010)
This article is a comprehensive review of the research on the supervision of practicing social workers published in peer-reviewed social work journals over a forty-year period (1970–2010). Eighty-six articles were located and analysed by decade, location, research design, research participants, research focus and findings. Following this analysis, the current state of knowledge is discussed in relation to the foundation it provides for theory and…
Constructing an evidence-informed social work supervision model
This article aims to pragmatically construct an evidence-informed model of social work supervision from the research findings from social work supervision research. The proposed evidence-informed model consists of five key areas, namely, the construction of social work supervision, supervision of the practitioner, the supervision alliance, the interactional process and the supervision of direct practice. The implications of the proposed evidence-…
Ten gentle reminders to social workers in the pandemic
Once in a century, in the era of global warming and globalization, there are international warnings about the outbreak of the virus Covid-19. People from the East to the West, and from the North to the South, are facing increasing threats from potential isolation, infection and even death. We are uncertain about when it will end and where outbreaks might occur, or who is afflicted. Human interactions are tempered by uncertainty and even fear that…
Disrupting social work ethics
Social work locates itself as a value-based profession. The profession would not hold such status without an ethical framework and code to practice social work purpose and functions. Without ethics, we could not apply the values and theories of social work at micro- through to macrolevels of practice. Indeed, ethics ensures our operational framework and accountability to the communities we serve
Empirical Research on Social Work Supervision
This paper is a critical review of all the empirical research on supervision for social workers. Although supervision is taken to be an important and unique enabling social work process, only 30 empirical research articles have been published over the last 25 years. This is a reflection of the wide gap between practice and research on supervision. It has been suggested that there is a pressing need for changes in research topics and research meth…
The historical development of knowledge in social work supervision
This article draws on research studies and journal articles to examine the historical development of knowledge in social work supervision. The findings highlight the process and details involved in supervision. In addition, organizational culture, empirical studies, cumulative knowledge, and contextual environment are of critical importance to the formation. In the future, supervisory practice will need to take account of the balance of administr…
Conjuncture and cultural reproduction in the process of embedding
This paper focuses on the Chinese government’s policy of purchasing social services and discusses how relevant organisations provide social work and develop it within local socio-political and cultural contexts. An ethnographic research method was adopted for the study by the first author while participating in social work development in Q City. We argue that the policy of purchasing social services succeeded in achieving “embedded development” b…
From Supervision to Organisational Learning
Supervision is recognised as one of the major determinants of the quality of service to social work clients, the advancement of professional development and social workers’ level of job satisfaction. However, educational and supportive roles of supervisors have been constrained by administrative obligations. It is envisaged that the future path of supervision will be a new form of organisational learning. This paper aims to integrate supervision …
In Search of an Informed Supervisory Practice
This article explores the concept of an informed supervisory practice through a literature review and study of 18 social work supervisors' perspectives about what informed their supervisory practices. The results show that the supervisors were informed by their experiences of supervision, concepts and ideas from social work practice theory and supervision models, as well as their personal perceptions about their supervisees, the dynamics of super…
Social work with families in the pandemic of Covid-19
We have been facing the pandemic of COVID-19 for nearly 2 years. It seems that there is still a long way to go. Humanity faces choices to either fight against it or live with the virus and its variants. During this difficult period, there is no way for us just to wait and see, we have to stand up and face it together. Family as the basic unit of our society will become our base for this battle. In fact, during the pandemic, our families have been…
Social work’s role during and after the pandemic
The seriousness and acuteness of the pandemic has quickly taken the world’s attention. This has diverted attention from many struggles for people who were already seeking some type of liberation or relief. At any one time in the world, there are many struggles for human rights occurring. COVID-19 has taken the world by storm, capturing attention and action in unprecedented ways. It has highlighted global inequalities and the political disjuncture…
External supervision for social workers in another socio-political context
External supervision of local social workers has become a common practice in Shenzhen, China as the development of social work as a profession reaches break-neck pace and when the shortage of experienced social work supervisors also becomes acute. Hence, many supervisors have been recruited externally from Hong Kong to fill the gap. However, for external supervisors working in another socio-political context they will need an awareness and sensit…
Using mirrors and lenses for reflection in social work
Eliminating gender-based violence can unlock the solutions to ending all violence
Social work in times of Geo-Political and Military Conflict
Like a virus, the threat of Geo-Political and Military Conflict can build and quickly result in catastrophic results for human life. As individuals, we have little power to avert such tragedies. Making sense of these troubling times on our own can be demoralising. Yet collectively we have a united responsibility to value humanity in such times. We as social workers may differ in our views, but our core values of preserving human life unite us eve…
Empirical Research on Social Work Supervision
This paper is a critical review of all the empirical research on supervision for social workers. Although supervision is taken to be an important and unique enabling social work process, only 30 empirical research articles have been published over the last 25 years. This is a reflection of the wide gap between practice and research on supervision. It has been suggested that there is a pressing need for changes in research topics and research meth…
Notions of the welfare state in China revisited
An International Asset
Social Work
Alcohol Use And Family Violence
Traditionally, alcohol use has been considered a major causal factor in incidents involving family violence. However, only a correlational relationship can be identified through research efforts to date. In order to look more rigorously into the relationship between alcohol use and family violence, interdisciplinary effects, focused on a series and variety of research designs should be devised. A family perspective should be adopted and research …
The harm reduction approach revisited
The harm reduction approach has been used in substance abuse prevention, treatment and rehabilitation for three decades. This article re-examines its underlying assumptions, redefines the major concepts and reviews the main features of existing programs in an international perspective. The author finds that harm reduction is pragmatic, incremental, comprehensive, scientific, proactive and accessible. Its effectiveness is supported by empirical st…
Applying the Structure of the Observed Learning Outcomes (Solo) Taxonomy on Student's Learning Outcomes
This article explores the application of different educational taxonomies in measuring students' cognitive learning outcomes. The objectives were to compare three educational taxonomies-namely, the Structure of the Observed Learning Outcomes (SOLO) taxonomy, Bloom's taxonomy and reflective thinking measurement model-and to test the application value of these taxonomies. A comparative literature review was conducted to provide an underlying concep…
Dealing with Terrorism
Journal Article Dealing with Terrorism: What Social Workers Should and Can Do Get access Ming-sum Tsui, PhD, ACSW, Ming-sum Tsui, PhD, ACSW senior lecturer Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong Address all correspondence to Dr. Tsui; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Fernando C. H. Cheung, PhD Fernando C.…
Gone with the Wind
Journal Article Gone with the Wind: The Impacts of Managerialism on Human Services Get access Ming-sum Tsui, Ming-sum Tsui Dr Ming-sum Tsui is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Applied Social Sciences, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include: supervision, human service management, social work theory and practice, and substance abuse. He is the author of many articles and his most recent work is Social Work Supervis…
In Search of an Optimal Model for Board–Executive Relationships in Voluntary Human Service Organizations
The roles, functions and power base of the board and the executive of voluntary human service organizations are analyzed. Three existing models and their inadequacies are reviewed. An optimal model of such relationships with two-dimensional coordinates and an indifference curve is constructed. Action guidelines for achieving power-sharing and board development are suggested, which may improve effectiveness
Functions of social work supervision in Hong Kong
English The functions of social work supervision in Hong Kong are characterized by three distinct features: consensus between the supervisor and the supervisee, discussion of personal matters and team building. These distinct features reflect characteristics of the Chinese cultural context. Supervision is not only organizational and professional, but also personal and cultural. French Trois aspects caractérisent les fonctions du travail social à …
Hopes and dreams Ideal supervision for social workers in Hong Kong
Ideal supervision is the hope and dream of social work supervisors and frontline workers. A qualitative study, based on 40 in-depth interviews with supervisors and frontline social workers in Hong Kong, was conducted to explore the features (purpose, format, relationship, and use of authority) of ideal supervision. It was found that social workers, whether they are supervisors or supervisees, wish to make better use of their supervision sessions …
The quest for western social work knowledge
English Despite the fast development of social work education, scholars in China are eager to import and adapt western social work knowledge which is portrayed as a monolithic entity. Using a case study of American social work literature, we question the existence of a monolithic system of western knowledge. French En dé pit du développement rapide de la formation en travail social, les étudiants chinois sont pressé s d’importer et d’adapter le s…
A Virtual Learning Environment for Part-Time Masw Students
This study aims to evaluate the perception of a cohort of social workers studying for a part-time master's program in social work in using the popular Web-based learning platform-World Wide Web Course Tools (WebCT) as a complimentary method of teaching and learning. It was noted that social work profession began incorporating computer technology in its practice long after other professions. Its incorporation into social work teaching came even la…
The nature of practice wisdom in social work revisited
English Social work knowledge cannot be adequately articulated by the positivistic epistemology. It arises from the judgements rather than the techniques. Forms of knowledge acquisition and utilization must be reinvented so that there is a close and equal partnership among the profession, practitioners and students. This will enable social workers to discover, articulate and use their knowledge most effectively. French L'épistémologie positiviste…
Social work as a moral and political practice
English In their efforts to promote the Global Standards for the Education and Training of the Social Work Profession, the authors discovered the withering of the moral and political bases of social work practice in the West. The revitalization of the roots of social work is important to the promotion of social justice. French Dans leurs efforts pour promouvoir les Standards Mondiaux pour l’Enseignement et la Formation aux Professions Sociales, l…
From resilience to resistance
Many practice models in social work focus primarily on the concepts associated with resilience. By contrast, resistance and rebellion, important strategies of the disadvantaged, are often neglected by social workers in developed countries. The authors seek to reconstruct and revitalize the strengths perspective by constructing a framework that includes theories of reflective practice
In Search of an Informed Supervisory Practice
This article explores the concept of an informed supervisory practice through a literature review and study of 18 social work supervisors' perspectives about what informed their supervisory practices. The results show that the supervisors were informed by their experiences of supervision, concepts and ideas from social work practice theory and supervision models, as well as their personal perceptions about their supervisees, the dynamics of super…
Towards a professional supervision culture
This article reviews the development of social work supervision within New Zealand (NZ) and identifies that supervision in NZ has developed a distinctive professional culture in four respects: recognition and acceptance of plurality and diversity, culturally based approaches, use of the concept of cultural supervision, and commitment to competent social work practice. From the literature reviewed it is asserted that New Zealand’s experience provi…
A profession with dual foci
Individual and social are the two foci of the mission of change that drives the social work profession. This dual-focus provides not only a cultural mechanism by which the profession can negotiate its professional boundaries but the flexibility for the profession to adjust its focus when its social assignment changes. However, the uncritical pursuit of a full-fledged professional status within a neoliberal ideology is upsetting the balance of the…
The Boundaries of the Social Work Relationship Revisited
In all professional relationships, there are power imbalances and the potential for discrimination and exploitation. To safeguard against such violations, the concept of professional boundaries is advocated, yet the construction of these boundaries is presented as if it is rudimentary for everyone. Historically, the professional boundaries created within the field of social work have been influenced by other professions, most notably medicine. In…
Back to basics
Back to basics: education and training for professional practice: implications for social workers in China and in the West." China Journal of Social Work, 8(2), pp. 91–92
Social Work Supervision Research (1970-2010)
This article is a comprehensive review of the research on the supervision of practicing social workers published in peer-reviewed social work journals over a forty-year period (1970–2010). Eighty-six articles were located and analysed by decade, location, research design, research participants, research focus and findings. Following this analysis, the current state of knowledge is discussed in relation to the foundation it provides for theory and…
Examining the neoliberal discourse of accountability
Social workers always strive for an intricate balance between the competitive demands of different discourses of accountability. However, the neoliberal welfare regime, which privileges the ideologies of free market choice and managerial control, has synchronized the different discourses into a neoliberal discourse of accountability. Using Hong Kong as an example, this article examines how this discourse is put into practice and how it demoralize…
External supervision for social workers in another socio-political context
External supervision of local social workers has become a common practice in Shenzhen, China as the development of social work as a profession reaches break-neck pace and when the shortage of experienced social work supervisors also becomes acute. Hence, many supervisors have been recruited externally from Hong Kong to fill the gap. However, for external supervisors working in another socio-political context they will need an awareness and sensit…
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