Kenneth Po-Lun Fung
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2306864 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kenneth Po-Lun Fung |
| PRENOMES | Kenneth Po-Lun |
| SOBRENOME | Fung |
| ASSINATURA | FUNG K P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4441-8420 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Does Cultural Conceptualisation of Empowerment Matter in Mental Health Promotion? Insights From the Linking Hearts Project
Empowerment has been applied as conceptual guidance for mental health promotion since the 1970s. Evidence from decades of cross‐cultural research has established that empowerment is a socially and culturally constituted construct whose mechanisms vary across different social, political and institutional contexts. However, how these variations shape implementation in practice, particularly in non‐Western settings with distinctive socio‐political c…
Equity-Related Determinants of Frequent Emergency Department Visits for Substance Use Disorders
BACKGROUND: Substance use disorders (SUDs) represent a growing public health concern in Canada, contributing to emergency department (ED) overcrowding and high system costs. Despite rising rates of SUD-related ED visits, the role of equity-related determinants, such as socioeconomic status, households and dwellings marginalization, and access to coordinated care, remains insufficiently understood. AIM: This study examined how equity-related and s…
Comparison of suicidal behavior among Chinese university students before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study explores the changes in suicidal behavior among Chinese university students before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The prevalence of lifetime suicide plan, lifetime suicidal ideation, and 12-month suicidal ideation among Chinese university students was higher during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to before the pandemic. The prevalence of lifetime suicidal ideation did not increase among students with high family economic status, wher…
HIV testing among heterosexual Black men in Toronto
The experiences of family caregiver and clinician facilitators implementing a co-delivered acceptance and commitment training (ACT) intervention
Family caregivers of people with neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDDs) experience high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression, yet few interventions target their wellbeing. Moreover, most evidence-based interventions fail to include caregivers in their design and delivery despite evidence that caregivers can play a vital role in enhancing the success of interventions to other caregivers. The present study explored the experiences of caregiver…
Commentary
IntroductionDepression is one of the most common mental disorders, estimated to have resulted in around 280 million DALYs globally in 2019 (1). Timely, appropriate intervention for depression is important to decrease morbidity and mortality from suicide. One approach to understanding help-seeking behaviours is to examine a person’s intention to get help, which is influenced by a person’s underlying attitudes, perceived subjective norms, and perce…
Empowering Chinese university health service providers to become mental health champions
We found that it is critical to integrate empowerment education into professional training. The process of MHSPs developing their empowerment practice is characterized by their moving from individual to collective empowerment along a continuum, with organizational and collective empowerment taking place in a longer time frame. Experiential learning, empathy education, and critical reflection accelerated the continuous iterative transformative pro…
Who is helping students? A qualitative analysis of task-shifting and on-campus mental health services in China's university settings
Traditional postpartum rituals among immigrant and non-immigrant Chinese women
Due to cultural and systemic factors, Chinese-Canadians tend to use mental health services less or when mental health problems are more severe. Services need to be more culturally responsive in their treatment of mental illness. Around important life events, when there may be heightened vulnerability to mental illness, this is especially important. In this study, postpartum cultural practices were examined among recent immigrant, longer-term immi…
The Pursuit of Resilience
Chinese University Students’ Perspectives on Help-Seeking and Mental Health Counseling
Psychological distress and mental illness have become increasingly pervasive among Chinese university students. However, many university students who need mental health treatment or psychological support do not actively seek help from professional counselors or service providers, which could lead to poor mental health outcomes. To promote help-seeking, we undertook a qualitative study to understand Chinese university students' perspectives on hel…
More than Mental Illness
From existing empirical research, we identified that Chinese college students commonly experience stigma surrounding mental illness and found some factors that support them in resisting the stigma and achieving psychological health. However, less research provides qualitative data involving individual experiences and insights on mental illness within this group of college students. This study, based on Linking Hearts (an internationally cooperati…
Depressive Symptoms as a Mediator between Excessive Daytime Sleepiness and Suicidal Ideation among Chinese College Students
The purpose of this study was to verify the mediating role of depressive symptoms between excessive daytime sleepiness and suicidal ideation in college students. Of the 6944 participants, 2609 (37.6%) were male and 4335 (62.4%) were female. College students with excessive daytime sleepiness (p < 0.001) and those with depressive symptoms (p < 0.001) were more likely to have suicidal ideation. Moreover, both excessive daytime sleepiness (β = 0.14, …
Report of the ACBS Task Force on the strategies and tactics of contextual behavioral science research
Throughout its history the strategy and tactics of contextual behavioral science (CBS) research have had distinctive features as compared to traditional behavioral science approaches. Continued progress in CBS research can be facilitated by greater clarity about how its strategy and tactics can be brought to bear on current challenges. The present white paper is the result of a 2 1/2-year long process designed to foster consensus among representa…
Association between Mental Health Knowledge Level and Depressive Symptoms among Chinese College Students
This study aimed to explore the association between mental health knowledge level and the prevalence of depressive symptoms among Chinese college students. A cross-sectional study was conducted in six universities in Jinan, Shandong Province, China, and a total of 600 college students were recruited to self-complete a series of questionnaires. The Mental Health Knowledge Questionnaire (MHKQ) was used to investigate the level of mental health know…
Examining Different Strategies for Stigma Reduction and Mental Health Promotion in Asian Men in Toronto
Exploring mental illness stigma among Asian men mobilized to become Community Mental Health Ambassadors in Toronto Canada
Our findings underscore the importance of engaging both community leaders and people with lived experience as mental health advocates to address stigma
Effects Of HIV stigma reduction interventions in diasporic communities
Racialized diasporic communities in Canada experience disproportionate burden of HIV infection. Their increased vulnerabilities are associated with interlocking challenges, including barriers in accessing resources, migration and settlement stress, and systemic exclusion. Further, people living with HIV (PLHIV) in these diasporic communities face stigma and discrimination in both mainstream Canadian society as well as their own ethno-racial commu…
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a psychological intervention that has wide clinical applications with emerging empirical support. It is based on Functional Contextualism and is derived as a clinical application of the Relational Frame Theory, a behavioral account of the development of human thought and cognition. The six core ACT therapeutic processes include: Acceptance, Defusion, Present Moment, Self-as-Context, Values, and Committed…
Organizational cultural competence consultation to a mental health institution
Cultural competence is increasingly recognized as an essential component of effective mental health care delivery to address diversity and equity issues. Drawing from the literature and our experience in providing cultural competence consultation and training, the paper will discuss our perspective on the foundational concepts of cultural competence and how it applies to a health care organization, including its programs and services. Based on a …
Community mobilisation and empowerment for combating a pandemic
During the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak, the Chinese Torontonians rallied behind various community organisations to address their shared concerns. In order to efficiently mobilise both human and material resources in the midst of the public health crisis, the Community Coalition Concerned about SARS was formed on April 14, 2003 shortly after SARS hits Toronto. The Coalition comprised 63 Chinese-Canadian business, community, c…
Factors Influencing Attitudes Towards Seeking Professional Help Among East and Southeast Asian Immigrant and Refugee Women
Background and aims: It has been recognized that Asian immigrants in North America have lower rates of mental health service utilization. From the perspective of cross-cultural psychiatry, one of the most important cultural factors may be differences in the explanatory model of illness. This article examines the relationship of causal beliefs, perceived service accessibility and attitudes towards seeking mental health care. Method: The sample con…
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a psychological intervention that has wide clinical applications with emerging empirical support. It is based on Functional Contextualism and is derived as a clinical application of the Relational Frame Theory, a behavioral account of the development of human thought and cognition. The six core ACT therapeutic processes include: Acceptance, Defusion, Present Moment, Self-as-Context, Values, and Committed…
Organizational cultural competence consultation to a mental health institution
Cultural competence is increasingly recognized as an essential component of effective mental health care delivery to address diversity and equity issues. Drawing from the literature and our experience in providing cultural competence consultation and training, the paper will discuss our perspective on the foundational concepts of cultural competence and how it applies to a health care organization, including its programs and services. Based on a …
Who is helping students? A qualitative analysis of task-shifting and on-campus mental health services in China's university settings
Examining Different Strategies for Stigma Reduction and Mental Health Promotion in Asian Men in Toronto
Exploring mental illness stigma among Asian men mobilized to become Community Mental Health Ambassadors in Toronto Canada
Our findings underscore the importance of engaging both community leaders and people with lived experience as mental health advocates to address stigma
Factors Influencing Attitudes Towards Seeking Professional Help Among East and Southeast Asian Immigrant and Refugee Women
Background and aims: It has been recognized that Asian immigrants in North America have lower rates of mental health service utilization. From the perspective of cross-cultural psychiatry, one of the most important cultural factors may be differences in the explanatory model of illness. This article examines the relationship of causal beliefs, perceived service accessibility and attitudes towards seeking mental health care. Method: The sample con…
Community mobilisation and empowerment for combating a pandemic
During the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak, the Chinese Torontonians rallied behind various community organisations to address their shared concerns. In order to efficiently mobilise both human and material resources in the midst of the public health crisis, the Community Coalition Concerned about SARS was formed on April 14, 2003 shortly after SARS hits Toronto. The Coalition comprised 63 Chinese-Canadian business, community, c…
Organizational cultural competence consultation to a mental health institution
Cultural competence is increasingly recognized as an essential component of effective mental health care delivery to address diversity and equity issues. Drawing from the literature and our experience in providing cultural competence consultation and training, the paper will discuss our perspective on the foundational concepts of cultural competence and how it applies to a health care organization, including its programs and services. Based on a …
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a psychological intervention that has wide clinical applications with emerging empirical support. It is based on Functional Contextualism and is derived as a clinical application of the Relational Frame Theory, a behavioral account of the development of human thought and cognition. The six core ACT therapeutic processes include: Acceptance, Defusion, Present Moment, Self-as-Context, Values, and Committed…
Effects Of HIV stigma reduction interventions in diasporic communities
Racialized diasporic communities in Canada experience disproportionate burden of HIV infection. Their increased vulnerabilities are associated with interlocking challenges, including barriers in accessing resources, migration and settlement stress, and systemic exclusion. Further, people living with HIV (PLHIV) in these diasporic communities face stigma and discrimination in both mainstream Canadian society as well as their own ethno-racial commu…
Exploring mental illness stigma among Asian men mobilized to become Community Mental Health Ambassadors in Toronto Canada
Our findings underscore the importance of engaging both community leaders and people with lived experience as mental health advocates to address stigma
Examining Different Strategies for Stigma Reduction and Mental Health Promotion in Asian Men in Toronto
Report of the ACBS Task Force on the strategies and tactics of contextual behavioral science research
Throughout its history the strategy and tactics of contextual behavioral science (CBS) research have had distinctive features as compared to traditional behavioral science approaches. Continued progress in CBS research can be facilitated by greater clarity about how its strategy and tactics can be brought to bear on current challenges. The present white paper is the result of a 2 1/2-year long process designed to foster consensus among representa…
Association between Mental Health Knowledge Level and Depressive Symptoms among Chinese College Students
This study aimed to explore the association between mental health knowledge level and the prevalence of depressive symptoms among Chinese college students. A cross-sectional study was conducted in six universities in Jinan, Shandong Province, China, and a total of 600 college students were recruited to self-complete a series of questionnaires. The Mental Health Knowledge Questionnaire (MHKQ) was used to investigate the level of mental health know…
The Pursuit of Resilience
Chinese University Students’ Perspectives on Help-Seeking and Mental Health Counseling
Psychological distress and mental illness have become increasingly pervasive among Chinese university students. However, many university students who need mental health treatment or psychological support do not actively seek help from professional counselors or service providers, which could lead to poor mental health outcomes. To promote help-seeking, we undertook a qualitative study to understand Chinese university students' perspectives on hel…
More than Mental Illness
From existing empirical research, we identified that Chinese college students commonly experience stigma surrounding mental illness and found some factors that support them in resisting the stigma and achieving psychological health. However, less research provides qualitative data involving individual experiences and insights on mental illness within this group of college students. This study, based on Linking Hearts (an internationally cooperati…
Depressive Symptoms as a Mediator between Excessive Daytime Sleepiness and Suicidal Ideation among Chinese College Students
The purpose of this study was to verify the mediating role of depressive symptoms between excessive daytime sleepiness and suicidal ideation in college students. Of the 6944 participants, 2609 (37.6%) were male and 4335 (62.4%) were female. College students with excessive daytime sleepiness (p < 0.001) and those with depressive symptoms (p < 0.001) were more likely to have suicidal ideation. Moreover, both excessive daytime sleepiness (β = 0.14, …
The experiences of family caregiver and clinician facilitators implementing a co-delivered acceptance and commitment training (ACT) intervention
Family caregivers of people with neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDDs) experience high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression, yet few interventions target their wellbeing. Moreover, most evidence-based interventions fail to include caregivers in their design and delivery despite evidence that caregivers can play a vital role in enhancing the success of interventions to other caregivers. The present study explored the experiences of caregiver…
Commentary
IntroductionDepression is one of the most common mental disorders, estimated to have resulted in around 280 million DALYs globally in 2019 (1). Timely, appropriate intervention for depression is important to decrease morbidity and mortality from suicide. One approach to understanding help-seeking behaviours is to examine a person’s intention to get help, which is influenced by a person’s underlying attitudes, perceived subjective norms, and perce…
Empowering Chinese university health service providers to become mental health champions
We found that it is critical to integrate empowerment education into professional training. The process of MHSPs developing their empowerment practice is characterized by their moving from individual to collective empowerment along a continuum, with organizational and collective empowerment taking place in a longer time frame. Experiential learning, empathy education, and critical reflection accelerated the continuous iterative transformative pro…
Who is helping students? A qualitative analysis of task-shifting and on-campus mental health services in China's university settings
Traditional postpartum rituals among immigrant and non-immigrant Chinese women
Due to cultural and systemic factors, Chinese-Canadians tend to use mental health services less or when mental health problems are more severe. Services need to be more culturally responsive in their treatment of mental illness. Around important life events, when there may be heightened vulnerability to mental illness, this is especially important. In this study, postpartum cultural practices were examined among recent immigrant, longer-term immi…
Comparison of suicidal behavior among Chinese university students before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study explores the changes in suicidal behavior among Chinese university students before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The prevalence of lifetime suicide plan, lifetime suicidal ideation, and 12-month suicidal ideation among Chinese university students was higher during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to before the pandemic. The prevalence of lifetime suicidal ideation did not increase among students with high family economic status, wher…
HIV testing among heterosexual Black men in Toronto
Does Cultural Conceptualisation of Empowerment Matter in Mental Health Promotion? Insights From the Linking Hearts Project
Empowerment has been applied as conceptual guidance for mental health promotion since the 1970s. Evidence from decades of cross‐cultural research has established that empowerment is a socially and culturally constituted construct whose mechanisms vary across different social, political and institutional contexts. However, how these variations shape implementation in practice, particularly in non‐Western settings with distinctive socio‐political c…
Equity-Related Determinants of Frequent Emergency Department Visits for Substance Use Disorders
BACKGROUND: Substance use disorders (SUDs) represent a growing public health concern in Canada, contributing to emergency department (ED) overcrowding and high system costs. Despite rising rates of SUD-related ED visits, the role of equity-related determinants, such as socioeconomic status, households and dwellings marginalization, and access to coordinated care, remains insufficiently understood. AIM: This study examined how equity-related and s…
Psychology (19 obras) · Medicine (16 obras) · Psychiatry (13 obras) · Mental health (10 obras) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (10 obras) · Clinical Psychology (9 obras) · Clinical Psychology (8 obras) · Community Health and Development (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Sociology (6 obras)