Johnson Chun-Sing Cheung
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 319467 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Johnson Chun-Sing Cheung |
| NOMBRES | Johnson Chun-Sing |
| APELLIDO | Cheung |
| FIRMA | CHEUNG J C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7837-282X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Whose ethics govern? AI, relational ethics, and professional codes of social workers and counsellors in Hong Kong and Singapore
Asset-Based Community Development for Dementia-Friendly Communities (ABCD for DFC)
Dementia-friendly communities (DFCs) have gained global prominence as a key strategy to enable older adults living with dementia to live with dignity and without stigma. However, there is little understanding about how community stakeholders beyond those working directly with people affected by dementia can be effectively mobilized and contribute to the creation of DFCs. This study explores the underlying facilitators that enable community stakeh…
What Makes Social Work an Art
This paper begins by defining beauty and sublimity within social work, establishing the significance of aesthetics as encompassing both dimensions. It distinguishes between beauty—characterised by pleasantness and charm—and sublimity, marked by awe-inspiring and terrifying qualities. Two detailed practice vignettes—an adult daughter caring for a chronically ill parent and a young person experiencing philosophical loneliness—illustrate how Kantian…
Standardized services and trimmed cases
The study addresses how government procurement mechanisms shape social work practices in community-based rehabilitation projects for non-local drug users in China. Drawing on institutional ethnography, the study examines how administrative directives, performance evaluation, and standardized documentation affect frontline social workers’ professional roles. Findings reveal that social work has transformed into a form of “administrative social wor…
Social work in the era of WEB 3.0
The fundamental ideas underpinning Web 3.0 are revolutionary but could simultaneously be potentially disruptive. Have people and the surrounding systems been ready to embrace such a brand-new Utopia that is operated in a transparent, anonymized, decentralized, and immutable manner? In this regard, the role of social work should be carefully calibrated alongside this evolution process. Authors of this article argued that social workers should enga…
Promoting Free Play in Families Using the Kindergarten PLAYBAG Intervention in Hong Kong
This exploratory study examined whether the kindergarten PLAYBAG intervention protocol administered for parents and children during the pandemic in Hong Kong could generate positive outcomes in embracing play freedom, fostering positive parent–child relationships, and promoting parents’ mental health. Self-administrated questionnaires were used to generate quantitative data before and after the distribution of the PLAYBAG intervention protocol. A…
Development of the digital competence scale for social service practitioners
Despite the use of technology across various areas of social service and the necessity for practitioners to possess relevant technological knowledge and skills for technology-related services, gaps remain in assessing the digital competence of social service practitioners. This study aims to address the research gap by developing a Chinese digital competence measurement scale specifically tailored for social service practitioners. A survey was co…
Self-efficacy and technology usage among social service practitioners—A structural equation modeling
This study examines the relationship between digital self-efficacy, general self-efficacy, and technology usage among social service practitioners. An online survey questionnaire was sent to social service practitioners and the results indicated a positive relationship between the three variables. In addition, general and digital self-efficacy differed according to the educational level. Moreover, digital self-efficacy has a greater effect on tec…
Developing a user typology of adopting innovative technologies in social work
The integration of technology into social work has emerged as a crucial requirement in daily practice. Social workers have gradually acclimated to these technologies through continuous and routine use. This study conducted in Hong Kong proposed a unified approach to understanding the digital transformation of social work practice and concluded that social workers’ use of innovative technologies spanned the entire Levels of Use range from Level 0 …
Leadership in the interprofessional school social work context
Role ambiguity is an often-mentioned challenge that school social workers (SSWs) face, as discussed in the literature (Forenza and Eckhardt 2020; Tan et al., 2021). It leads to the marginalization of SSWs within schools (Sherman 2016). Gherardi and Whittlesey-Jerome (2018) proposed that, in addition to working in and for schools, SSWs should also work with schools through active participation in schools’ educational systems. This is in line with …
Factors Influencing Chinese Teachers’ Perceptions of Students with Special Education Needs
This study examined teachers’ perceptions and attitudes toward students with special education needs (SEN) in primary and secondary schools in Foshan city located in the Guangdong province. The factors affecting teachers’ perceptions were investigated through a survey with 1,424 participants. The results indicated that the teachers’ perceptions of students with SEN were influenced by gender, age, class teacher role, administrator role, subject ta…
Social work theory and ethics
Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the service user psychological empowerment scale in a sample of youth service users
This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the translated Chinese version of the Service User Psychological Empowerment Scale (C-SUPES) in a youth service setting in Hong Kong. Data were collected from a cross-sectional survey of 381 youth residing in Hong Kong and participating in services provided by community-based children and youth services centres. The results of confirmatory factor analysis indicate a good fit for the prop…
Outcomes of a Design Thinking Program on Social Workers
Purpose: This study explored the outcomes of a youth empowerment program guided by design thinking on social workers’ innovations in youth service. Method: Forty-seven practitioners joined this program with two stages: the capacity-building stage and the implementation stage. A pretest-intermediate test-posttest design survey was used to explore practitioners’ changes. Results: Significant differences were found in creative self-efficacy and inno…
Inter-Professional Education and Collaborative Practice in Social Work
A rising trend is being observed in enhancing Inter-Professional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP) in health care settings. Empirical evidence on its effects, particularly in youth settings, remains limited. This study examined the moderating role of inter-professional learning in the relation between youth work practitioners’ self-efficacy in social work and their creative self-efficacy and innovative behaviour. A total of 227 youth w…
Technology and Family Dynamics
From knowledge to the heart
A truly holistic understanding of practice wisdom must be developed to address the contemporary crisis in social work and to cater to the multiple needs of non-European and non-Christian communities, in particular. I propose that the distinctiveness and professionalism of social work can be found in the intersubjective encounters between clients and self-actualised social workers. In applying the Chinese interpretation of wisdom (i.e. zhi hui), p…
Responses to Covid-19 in Major Social Work Journals
Purpose: The main objective of this study was to provide a comprehensive overview of the latest studies on COVID-19-related social work issues. Method: This systematic review aimed to collect, review, and synthesize all COVID-19-related papers published in 43 major social work journals, a year after the first known case was reported. Results: The final sample ( n = 256) consisted of 85 research articles and 171 in other formats. All the studies i…
Do more better? Understanding the associations of increased volunteer service with positive attitudes and responsibility
A total of 1,046 students from seven local secondary schools in Hong Kong were interviewed to examine the association between the time students devoted to volunteering and the number of service organisations students joined to fulfil personal and social responsibility and volunteer intentions. The results indicated differential effects of students’ volunteering hours and the number of organisations in which they participated on their responsibili…
Changes in older adults' perceptions of age-friendliness in Hong Kong
Social Workers’ Acceptance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Practice during Covid-19
This qualitative research examined Hong Kong social workers’ perceptions of the usefulness and ease of adopting information and communication technology (ICT) in their practice during the COVID-19 pandemic. Invitations to participate in this research were sent to various social welfare agencies, resulting in the recruitment of 23 social workers with different work experiences. In-depth interviews followed by thematic analysis were employed to exp…
Safeguarding health equality for the disadvantaged during the Covid-19 pandemic
An evaluation of the role played by the social work profession during the outbreak of COVID-19 is necessary. Although social workers have made efforts to address people’s needs during the pandemic, it is worth examining the role they have played in safeguarding health equality. Focusing on the case of Hong Kong, we found that the profession was generally ill-prepared for the outbreak, and in particular, for confronting the attendant social inequa…
Still Dare to Dream
Film: Go Grandriders! (90 min)Directed by Tian-Hao HuaReleased: 2013 (USA)Language: Mandarin and Taiwanese, with English subtitlesA Taiwanese documentary Go Grandriders is introduced as a thought-p
Civic Crowdfunding for Social Work Research
Civic crowdfunding for research purposes has been an emerging trend in scientific fields over the past few years. This article presents findings from a mixed methods analysis of 152 social science research projects that campaigned for crowdfunding. A total of US$583,074 was raised through the support of 6,663 backers amongst the 150 successfully funded projects. This study offers specific lessons for social work researchers engaging in crowdfundi…
Golden opportunities for resolving students’ emotional disturbance in learning social work values
The term golden opportunities to discuss with supervisees about social work values refers to the episodes of struggles and conflicts encountered by students in fieldwork. They are so-called golden opportunities to discuss social work values with students. Limited attention has been paid as to how to seize these golden opportunities. This study explores the causes of emotional disturbance and the methods applied by supervisors to discuss social wo…
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…
A social worker with two watches
Accompanying the diminishing voice of the client in cross-subsidized social work, the author makes an attempt to reveal the ambivalence and ambiguity of state-sponsored social work in Hong Kong. In light of the increase in quasi-welfare markets that promote an environment of competitive bidding on government subventions, this article addresses the contradictions between commercial and social work values after the commodification of welfare. Becau…
Changes in older adults' perceptions of age-friendliness in Hong Kong
Practising social work groups online
Conducting online social work groups, as a substitute for traditional forms of groups, was uncommon in Hong Kong before the outbreak of COVID-19. Frontline social workers encountered several difficulties and challenges while trying to provide this alternative form of social work intervention. This article serves as a reflection on the use of online social work groups from social work practitioners’ point of view at this critical juncture
Practice wisdom in social work
Social work is not, and should not be, a practice of common sense. The author revisited a vast array of literature on practice wisdom in social work and parallel conceptions in cognate disciplines. For better or worse, the idea of practice wisdom has been revitalized in standing against the deprofessionalization of social work. However, its ambiguity in meaning has somehow overridden its reputation. Practice wisdom is intuitive, tacit, and sponta…
Social work g uanxi
In a guanxi-driven acquaintanceship, the worker, the client, and the community are tied together more closely than they are in mutually agreed-upon service contracts. This paper re-examines the contemporary boundaries in the social work relationship, especially in Asian nations such as China, where ‘relationships’ are generally translated and perceived as ‘guanxi’. The indigenisation of social work must be managed with care when translating from …
Youth Empowerment in the Community and Young People's Creative Self-Efficacy
This study examined the moderating effect of youth-adult partnerships (YAPs) on the relationship between youth empowerment in the community and youth's creative self-efficacy (CSE). A survey was administered to 2,653 youth recruited from youth service centers in Hong Kong, which measured youth empowerment in the community, perceived YAPs in youth services, and CSE. The results indicated positive associations between youth empowerment in the commu…
Rentier welfare states in hydrocarbon-based economies
Welfare statism should not be a patent for the Western world. This article aims to grasp lessons learnt from two resource-abundant nations in Asia, that is Brunei Darussalam and Islamic Republic of Iran, regarding their ideologies of social policy formulation and welfare provision, in a forward-moving political and economic context. In the process of struggling over a non-Euro-centred typology of welfare state, calling for pluralism, civil societ…
Social work theory and ethics
Social Workers’ Acceptance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Practice during Covid-19
This qualitative research examined Hong Kong social workers’ perceptions of the usefulness and ease of adopting information and communication technology (ICT) in their practice during the COVID-19 pandemic. Invitations to participate in this research were sent to various social welfare agencies, resulting in the recruitment of 23 social workers with different work experiences. In-depth interviews followed by thematic analysis were employed to exp…
Working on Chinese male carers’ ‘Qing’ in a social work group with an innovative approach – ‘Emoto’
This article presents a one-year ‘Emoto’ project for male carers. In this project, photography is used as an intervention tool to work with this underrepresented group. Photos taken by voluntary photographers according to various ‘Qing’ (primary emotion) themes were used as the prominent means of communication. These photos encouraged male carers using nonverbal media to assist the expression of untold thoughts and unrecognized feelings. Besides …
Social Work Initiatives for the Inclusion of Students with Special Educational Needs
Based on first-hand experiences in implementing a volunteer mentorship scheme, the authors suggest that the children and youth service centres provide a crucial platform for social workers to engage students with special educational needs (SENs), and it is of the utmost importance to reclaim advocacy for them in social work services. As for the past decade, inclusive education in Hong Kong has received more complaints than compliments regarding t…
A Social Work Perspective on Using Social Return on Investment (SROI) in Humanistic Social Care
Service administrators and social workers are increasingly adopting business terminology in practice, including such terms as “social impact”, “social capital”, “social investing”, “social accounting”, “social benefits”, and “social return on investment” (SROI). These concepts, especially SROI, must be examined for inconsistency with social work values. Clients must not be stigmatised, and their voices must be heard when this controversial measur…
Confronting the Challenges in Using Social Network Sites for Cyber Youth Work
With the prevalence of smartphones and social media, young people are nearly always connected (Larose, Connolly, Lee, Li, & Hales, 2014). Social media communication facilitates a high level of intimacy among young people, but they are, in fact, alone (Turkle, 2011). Social workers must crucially engage with young people actively online and be exceptionally sensitive to the ethical issues arising in cyber youth work. For social workers, the dilemm…
Self-efficacy and technology usage among social service practitioners—A structural equation modeling
This study examines the relationship between digital self-efficacy, general self-efficacy, and technology usage among social service practitioners. An online survey questionnaire was sent to social service practitioners and the results indicated a positive relationship between the three variables. In addition, general and digital self-efficacy differed according to the educational level. Moreover, digital self-efficacy has a greater effect on tec…
Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the service user psychological empowerment scale in a sample of youth service users
This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the translated Chinese version of the Service User Psychological Empowerment Scale (C-SUPES) in a youth service setting in Hong Kong. Data were collected from a cross-sectional survey of 381 youth residing in Hong Kong and participating in services provided by community-based children and youth services centres. The results of confirmatory factor analysis indicate a good fit for the prop…
Outcomes of a Design Thinking Program on Social Workers
Purpose: This study explored the outcomes of a youth empowerment program guided by design thinking on social workers’ innovations in youth service. Method: Forty-seven practitioners joined this program with two stages: the capacity-building stage and the implementation stage. A pretest-intermediate test-posttest design survey was used to explore practitioners’ changes. Results: Significant differences were found in creative self-efficacy and inno…
Children and Youth Services from a Family Perspective
The word “integration” has been the “fashion” of social work throughout the past decade. Social services such as child care, family services, rehabilitation, and children and youth services have applied the concept of integration energetically. With the advantages of maximizing the use of existing resources, rationalizing the distribution of centers, making better use of public funds, and facilitating evaluation of service performance, the integr…
Alone Together
Almost three decades after the publication of ‘The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit’ (Turkle, 1984), which was once regarded as essential reading in the psychology of computation, Sherry
Children and Youth Services from a Family Perspective
The word “integration” has been the “fashion” of social work throughout the past decade. Social services such as child care, family services, rehabilitation, and children and youth services have applied the concept of integration energetically. With the advantages of maximizing the use of existing resources, rationalizing the distribution of centers, making better use of public funds, and facilitating evaluation of service performance, the integr…
A letter to the late Felix Biestek
It is acknowledged that ‘The Casework Relationship’ is a seminal work in the social work literature. Written by Professor Felix Biestek (1912-1994) of the School of Social Work at Loyola University in 1957, the book has been translated into six languages and is considered a ‘best seller’ in the social work community. Rather than writing another straightforward review of the book (Bisno, 1958; Mwansa, 2008; Perlman, 1957), I propose instead to dra…
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…
The A+ of a practice doctorate
In light of the growing trend of developing practice doctoral degree programmes in social work, the author uses the first Doctor of Social Work (DSW) programme in Hong Kong, which is a unique programme in China, as a case study to examine the pedagogy and constraints of doctoral programmes in social work. The programme serves as an alternative to a typical PhD programme and is designed particularly for seasoned practitioners in the field who stri…
Rentier welfare states in hydrocarbon-based economies
Welfare statism should not be a patent for the Western world. This article aims to grasp lessons learnt from two resource-abundant nations in Asia, that is Brunei Darussalam and Islamic Republic of Iran, regarding their ideologies of social policy formulation and welfare provision, in a forward-moving political and economic context. In the process of struggling over a non-Euro-centred typology of welfare state, calling for pluralism, civil societ…
Social Work Initiatives for the Inclusion of Students with Special Educational Needs
Based on first-hand experiences in implementing a volunteer mentorship scheme, the authors suggest that the children and youth service centres provide a crucial platform for social workers to engage students with special educational needs (SENs), and it is of the utmost importance to reclaim advocacy for them in social work services. As for the past decade, inclusive education in Hong Kong has received more complaints than compliments regarding t…
Practice wisdom in social work
Social work is not, and should not be, a practice of common sense. The author revisited a vast array of literature on practice wisdom in social work and parallel conceptions in cognate disciplines. For better or worse, the idea of practice wisdom has been revitalized in standing against the deprofessionalization of social work. However, its ambiguity in meaning has somehow overridden its reputation. Practice wisdom is intuitive, tacit, and sponta…
Social work g uanxi
In a guanxi-driven acquaintanceship, the worker, the client, and the community are tied together more closely than they are in mutually agreed-upon service contracts. This paper re-examines the contemporary boundaries in the social work relationship, especially in Asian nations such as China, where ‘relationships’ are generally translated and perceived as ‘guanxi’. The indigenisation of social work must be managed with care when translating from …
A Social Work Perspective on Using Social Return on Investment (SROI) in Humanistic Social Care
Service administrators and social workers are increasingly adopting business terminology in practice, including such terms as “social impact”, “social capital”, “social investing”, “social accounting”, “social benefits”, and “social return on investment” (SROI). These concepts, especially SROI, must be examined for inconsistency with social work values. Clients must not be stigmatised, and their voices must be heard when this controversial measur…
Confronting the Challenges in Using Social Network Sites for Cyber Youth Work
With the prevalence of smartphones and social media, young people are nearly always connected (Larose, Connolly, Lee, Li, & Hales, 2014). Social media communication facilitates a high level of intimacy among young people, but they are, in fact, alone (Turkle, 2011). Social workers must crucially engage with young people actively online and be exceptionally sensitive to the ethical issues arising in cyber youth work. For social workers, the dilemm…
A social worker with two watches
Accompanying the diminishing voice of the client in cross-subsidized social work, the author makes an attempt to reveal the ambivalence and ambiguity of state-sponsored social work in Hong Kong. In light of the increase in quasi-welfare markets that promote an environment of competitive bidding on government subventions, this article addresses the contradictions between commercial and social work values after the commodification of welfare. Becau…
Women in Swedish society
In a world overwhelmed with concerns over unequal gender treatment and prevailing patriarchal systems, Sweden’s efforts to promote gender equality has not gone unnoticed. According to the U.S. News
Utilisation patterns of home care services of long-term care programmes and primary caregivers’ workload in Taiwan
This study examines service utilisation patterns and investigates the needs and barriers to service utilisation among users and non-users of home care services in Taiwan. 450 participants were selected based on the ratio of clients in the institution to the total number of care recipients in Taipei City. This study shows that about 30% of the participants had experienced a gap between approved and actual service hours. The results of three multip…
Community life on demand in ground-floor shop spaces
Pop-up design helps steer city regeneration and community revival. With this belief, Hong Kong-based social creativity studio One Bite Social launched the urban ‘matching’ platform ‘Project House’. Using a tactical place-making approach, it pairs up vacant shops with local social groups facing spatial needs. The win–win results bring local exposure to pop-up vacant shops while providing marginalised community groups with adequate space for new so…
Contesting Human Rights
Safeguarding health equality for the disadvantaged during the Covid-19 pandemic
An evaluation of the role played by the social work profession during the outbreak of COVID-19 is necessary. Although social workers have made efforts to address people’s needs during the pandemic, it is worth examining the role they have played in safeguarding health equality. Focusing on the case of Hong Kong, we found that the profession was generally ill-prepared for the outbreak, and in particular, for confronting the attendant social inequa…
Still Dare to Dream
Film: Go Grandriders! (90 min)Directed by Tian-Hao HuaReleased: 2013 (USA)Language: Mandarin and Taiwanese, with English subtitlesA Taiwanese documentary Go Grandriders is introduced as a thought-p
Civic Crowdfunding for Social Work Research
Civic crowdfunding for research purposes has been an emerging trend in scientific fields over the past few years. This article presents findings from a mixed methods analysis of 152 social science research projects that campaigned for crowdfunding. A total of US$583,074 was raised through the support of 6,663 backers amongst the 150 successfully funded projects. This study offers specific lessons for social work researchers engaging in crowdfundi…
Golden opportunities for resolving students’ emotional disturbance in learning social work values
The term golden opportunities to discuss with supervisees about social work values refers to the episodes of struggles and conflicts encountered by students in fieldwork. They are so-called golden opportunities to discuss social work values with students. Limited attention has been paid as to how to seize these golden opportunities. This study explores the causes of emotional disturbance and the methods applied by supervisors to discuss social wo…
Practising social work groups online
Conducting online social work groups, as a substitute for traditional forms of groups, was uncommon in Hong Kong before the outbreak of COVID-19. Frontline social workers encountered several difficulties and challenges while trying to provide this alternative form of social work intervention. This article serves as a reflection on the use of online social work groups from social work practitioners’ point of view at this critical juncture
Working on Chinese male carers’ ‘Qing’ in a social work group with an innovative approach – ‘Emoto’
This article presents a one-year ‘Emoto’ project for male carers. In this project, photography is used as an intervention tool to work with this underrepresented group. Photos taken by voluntary photographers according to various ‘Qing’ (primary emotion) themes were used as the prominent means of communication. These photos encouraged male carers using nonverbal media to assist the expression of untold thoughts and unrecognized feelings. Besides …
Youth Empowerment in the Community and Young People's Creative Self-Efficacy
This study examined the moderating effect of youth-adult partnerships (YAPs) on the relationship between youth empowerment in the community and youth's creative self-efficacy (CSE). A survey was administered to 2,653 youth recruited from youth service centers in Hong Kong, which measured youth empowerment in the community, perceived YAPs in youth services, and CSE. The results indicated positive associations between youth empowerment in the commu…
Technology and Family Dynamics
From knowledge to the heart
A truly holistic understanding of practice wisdom must be developed to address the contemporary crisis in social work and to cater to the multiple needs of non-European and non-Christian communities, in particular. I propose that the distinctiveness and professionalism of social work can be found in the intersubjective encounters between clients and self-actualised social workers. In applying the Chinese interpretation of wisdom (i.e. zhi hui), p…
Political science (25 obras) · Sociology (25 obras) · Social Work (24 obras) · Psychology (23 obras) · Social Work Education and Practice (20 obras) · Medicine (15 obras) · Public relations (15 obras) · Business (12 obras) · Computer Science (11 obras) · Engineering (11 obras)