Kam‐shing Yip
Biographic Data
| ID | 5121797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kam‐shing Yip |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kam‐shing |
| FAMILY NAME | Yip |
| SIGNATURE | YIP K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Professionalization of Social-work Practice in the People's Republic of China A Tri-tensional Analysis
Social work has gradually developed and regained its formal recognition since the 1980s in the People's Republic of China. Because of its unique social, cultural, and political contexts, the professionalization of social work in China has to struggle within tensions from three domains: the professional domain, the political domain, and the market domain. Tensions within these three domains interact with one another dynamically in shaping the curr…
Indigenization of social work An international perspective and conceptualization
This paper describes various issues, challenges, and tensions occurring in indigenization of social work in different parts of the world. The writer conceptualizes a tri-dimensional model of indigenization that includes universality and specificity, dominance and minority, as well as tradition and present situations. The model may be used in locating, interpreting, and applying indigenization in various social, cultural, and political contexts
Reflectivity in social work practice with clients with mental-health illness: Promise and challenge in social work education
English The author's nine years' experience in developing social work students' practical reflectivity in working with clients with mental illness is described in this article. By means of various teaching strategies, students' different levels of reflectivity were developed. Promise and challenges to social work education are also discussed. French Dans cet article, l'auteur décrit son expérience de neuf ans en tant que formateur d'étudiants en …
Tensions and dilemmas of social work education in China
English Social work education in China has developed dramatically over the past decade. However, because of its unique social, cultural and political back-ground and contexts, its current and future development faces tensions associated with politicization, professionalization and commercialization in the fields of values, social service delivery, social work practice and curriculum development. French L'enseignement du travail social a pris un e…
A suggested push model for interpreting the dilemmas of institutional care, community care and family care of mental-health consumers
English This article suggests a push model for analyzing dilemmas between institutional care, community care and family care of mental-health consumers. In the USA community care is overloaded by inappropriate de-institutionalization. In Hong Kong, family caregivers are severely burdened by poor community care and highly institutionalized services. French Cet article suggéré un modèle dit de poussée dans l'analyse des dilemmas qui surgissent entr…
Community Mental Health in the People’s Republic of China: A Critical Analysis
Author's Response
An Historical Review of the Mental Health Services in the People’s Republic of China
Background: This paper is an attempt to describe the historical development of the mental health services in the PRC. Research Methods: An archive of related literature Findings: The development of the mental health services in the PRC could be divided into several stages: the introduction of mental asylums by western missionaries before 1949; indigenization of the treatment model after the establishment of the PRC (1949-1963). Strong political c…
A dynamic Asian response to globalization in cross-cultural social work
Authentization, indigenization, cultural sensitivity, cultural competence and globalization are controversial issues in cross-cultural social work. In this article, the writer tries to clarify all these related concepts. In terms of various Asian cultural contexts, a model of dynamic Asian response and exchange in the field of cross-cultural social work practice in Asian countries is suggested. French L'authentization, l'indigénisation, la sensib…
A Strengths Perspective in Understanding and Working with Clients with Psychosis and Records of Violence
Clients labeled psychotic and having records of violence have long been seen as dangerous and resistant. Within a medical disease orientation, institutionalization, social control, and medication are applied in treating and rehabilitating these clients. By means of a case illustration, this article shows that violence and psychosis are understandable and predictable. From a strengths perspective, clients with psychosis and records of violence are…
Chinese concepts of mental health: Cultural implications for social work practice
English In terms of the traditional Chinese medical, Confucian and Taoist schools of thought, Chinese concepts of mental health have a strong impact. All these have significant implications for culturally sensitive or culturally competent social work practice in Chinese communities. French Les concepts chinois de santé mentale, issus des écoles de pensée médicale chinoise traditionnelle, confucianiste et taoiste, ont un fort impact sur la santé m…
Taoism and Its Impact on Mental Health of the Chinese Communities
Spirituality and religious coping is an important and rapidly expanding field in recent years. For the Chinese, traditional Taoism may still have a strong impact on the mental health of Chinese people. Taoistic concepts of mental health stress the transcendence from self and secularity, the dynamic revertism of nature, integration with nature and the pursuit of the infinite. Compared with western concepts of mental health, Taoism advocates self-t…
Adolescent Self-Cutters in Hong Kong
This paper is a report of a qualitative study on self-cutting of secondary school adolescents in Hong Kong. By means of in-depth interviews with three adolescents with self-cutting behaviours, their family members and peers, the cause, process and patterns of self-cutting were explored. The findings showed that the self-cutting was influenced by the adolescents' self-image, their sense of ambivalence, emptiness and frustration, their problems in …
Traditional Chinese Religious Beliefs and Superstitions in Delusions and Hallucinations of Chinese Schizophrenic Patients
Religious beliefs and superstitions have an important impact on the psychopathology of psychiatric patients. Traditional Chinese religious beliefs and superstitions, such as fortune telling, Buddhist gods, Taoist gods, historical heroic gods and ancestor worship, have important influence on subjective psychotic experiences, in particular delusions and hallucinations. By means of empirical phenomenological case narration, the writer shows that all…
Pattern of Adolescent Self-Cutting in Hong Kong: Reports from School Social Workers
This is a report of a study on the self-cutting pattern of adolescents in Hong Kong. This is a mini-scale study involving social workers working in thirty secondary schools. By means of an open-end questionnaire, they had to report various nature of self-cutting cases reported in their own schools. The finding showed that self-cutting was commonly found in secondary schools in Hong Kong. Most of the adolescents self-cutting behaviours were female…
A Critical Asian Response to Issues and Debates in Cross Cultural Counselling
Cross cultural and multicultural counselling are regarded as the fourth force of counselling in western multicultural countries like the USA and Canada. Its development is affected by the drastic development of multiculturalism and globalisation of economy. In this essay, the writer tries to discuss controversies and debates in cross cultural counselling. Its development stimulates social workers and counsellors to think about the discrepancies a…
Traditional Confucian Concepts of Mental Health: Its Implications to Social Work Practice with Chinese Communities
Traditional Confucian concept of mental health has a strong impact on the mental health of Chinese people. It stresses submissiveness of individuals to achieve harmony of the collective. Harmony is defined by the social order and authority figures in various social systems. It encourages people to restrain their emotions, avoid interpersonal conflicts and suppress individual rights so as to maintain a good harmony with others. Social workers shou…
A Mutual-Aid Group for Psychiatric Rehabilitation of Mental Ex-Patients in Hong Kong
Background: Mutual-aid group and self-directed group are recognized as important interventions for anti-oppression of disadvantaged groups in our society. Method: In this paper, the writer describes a mutual-aid group implemented in a psychiatric half-way house in Hong Kong. Members in this group were free to set their own agenda for discussion and to invite guest speakers. In terms of various stages of this group, the writer discusses how differ…
Social Workers' Counselling Role in Psychiatric Services in Hong Kong
The role as a counsellor has long been recognised as an inherent role for social workers in psychiatric services. In Hong Kong, this role was recognised but not supported by the government. This paper is an account of an original research on the counselling role of social workers in psychiatric services in Hong Kong. In this research, 63 social workers in various psychiatric services were interviewed. Their perception and activities in this role …
An explorative study of peer influence and response to adolescent self‐cutting behavior in Hong Kong∗
This paper reports on a qualitative study of peer responses to self‐cutting of secondary school adolescents in Hong Kong. Through semi‐structured in‐depth interviews with three adolescent self‐cutters, their family members, and their peers, the peers’ response to adolescents’ self‐cutting was explored. The findings showed that different peers had different types of influence, as well as different responses to self‐cutting. Close and supportive pe…
Social Work Around the World
Construction of a Role Institutionalisation Instrument for Social Workers in Psychiatric Case Management
In Hong Kong, mental health services are still institutionalised. There might be a risk that the roles of social workers in psychiatric case management may be institutionalised. The writer has identified seven elements in role institutionalisation. They are: medicalisation legalisation, bureaucratisation, servicisation, hospitalisation, chronicisation and dehumanisation. These seven elements have aversive impacts on the roles of social workers in…
The community care movement in mental health services: Implications for social work practice
This article is a critical review about the community care movement in mental health services in the UK and the USA. This movement has important implications for psychiatric social work practice. First, social workers have to enrich the concept of community care with those of normalization and social integration. Second, they have to develop an accepting community for mental patients and outpatients. Finally, they are the most suitable people to …
A Historical Review of Mental Health Services in Hong Kong (1841 To 1995)
This paper is a historical review of mental health services in Hong Kong. The development of mental health services in Hong Kong can be roughly divided into several stages: the pre-asylum period (1841-1924), the asylum period (1925-1948), the organization period (1948-1965), the initial rehabilitation period (1966-1973), the centralized rehabilitation period (1974-1981) and the civic control vs community care period (1982-1995). From the developm…
The Sharing of Roles between a Social Worker and Members of a Self-help Group for Mental Ex-patients in Australia
This a qualitative study on the collaboration of social workers and the members of GROW in South Australia. By means of participant observation in two self-help groups of GROW, the writer discovered that professionally trained social workers collaborated well with members in the self-help groups as they had similar backgrounds and experiences. Also, the social workers' roles in running these two groups were shared by group members who took up rol…
Tensions and dilemmas of social work education in China
English Social work education in China has developed dramatically over the past decade. However, because of its unique social, cultural and political back-ground and contexts, its current and future development faces tensions associated with politicization, professionalization and commercialization in the fields of values, social service delivery, social work practice and curriculum development. French L'enseignement du travail social a pris un e…
Chinese concepts of mental health: Cultural implications for social work practice
English In terms of the traditional Chinese medical, Confucian and Taoist schools of thought, Chinese concepts of mental health have a strong impact. All these have significant implications for culturally sensitive or culturally competent social work practice in Chinese communities. French Les concepts chinois de santé mentale, issus des écoles de pensée médicale chinoise traditionnelle, confucianiste et taoiste, ont un fort impact sur la santé m…
A dynamic Asian response to globalization in cross-cultural social work
Authentization, indigenization, cultural sensitivity, cultural competence and globalization are controversial issues in cross-cultural social work. In this article, the writer tries to clarify all these related concepts. In terms of various Asian cultural contexts, a model of dynamic Asian response and exchange in the field of cross-cultural social work practice in Asian countries is suggested. French L'authentization, l'indigénisation, la sensib…
Indigenization of social work An international perspective and conceptualization
This paper describes various issues, challenges, and tensions occurring in indigenization of social work in different parts of the world. The writer conceptualizes a tri-dimensional model of indigenization that includes universality and specificity, dominance and minority, as well as tradition and present situations. The model may be used in locating, interpreting, and applying indigenization in various social, cultural, and political contexts
Social Work Around the World
The community care movement in mental health services: Implications for social work practice
This article is a critical review about the community care movement in mental health services in the UK and the USA. This movement has important implications for psychiatric social work practice. First, social workers have to enrich the concept of community care with those of normalization and social integration. Second, they have to develop an accepting community for mental patients and outpatients. Finally, they are the most suitable people to …
Reflectivity in social work practice with clients with mental-health illness: Promise and challenge in social work education
English The author's nine years' experience in developing social work students' practical reflectivity in working with clients with mental illness is described in this article. By means of various teaching strategies, students' different levels of reflectivity were developed. Promise and challenges to social work education are also discussed. French Dans cet article, l'auteur décrit son expérience de neuf ans en tant que formateur d'étudiants en …
Community Mental Health in the People’s Republic of China: A Critical Analysis
A Strengths Perspective in Understanding and Working with Clients with Psychosis and Records of Violence
Clients labeled psychotic and having records of violence have long been seen as dangerous and resistant. Within a medical disease orientation, institutionalization, social control, and medication are applied in treating and rehabilitating these clients. By means of a case illustration, this article shows that violence and psychosis are understandable and predictable. From a strengths perspective, clients with psychosis and records of violence are…
Traditional Confucian Concepts of Mental Health: Its Implications to Social Work Practice with Chinese Communities
Traditional Confucian concept of mental health has a strong impact on the mental health of Chinese people. It stresses submissiveness of individuals to achieve harmony of the collective. Harmony is defined by the social order and authority figures in various social systems. It encourages people to restrain their emotions, avoid interpersonal conflicts and suppress individual rights so as to maintain a good harmony with others. Social workers shou…
Social Workers' Counselling Role in Psychiatric Services in Hong Kong
The role as a counsellor has long been recognised as an inherent role for social workers in psychiatric services. In Hong Kong, this role was recognised but not supported by the government. This paper is an account of an original research on the counselling role of social workers in psychiatric services in Hong Kong. In this research, 63 social workers in various psychiatric services were interviewed. Their perception and activities in this role …
Construction of a Role Institutionalisation Instrument for Social Workers in Psychiatric Case Management
In Hong Kong, mental health services are still institutionalised. There might be a risk that the roles of social workers in psychiatric case management may be institutionalised. The writer has identified seven elements in role institutionalisation. They are: medicalisation legalisation, bureaucratisation, servicisation, hospitalisation, chronicisation and dehumanisation. These seven elements have aversive impacts on the roles of social workers in…
A Historical Review of Mental Health Services in Hong Kong (1841 To 1995)
This paper is a historical review of mental health services in Hong Kong. The development of mental health services in Hong Kong can be roughly divided into several stages: the pre-asylum period (1841-1924), the asylum period (1925-1948), the organization period (1948-1965), the initial rehabilitation period (1966-1973), the centralized rehabilitation period (1974-1981) and the civic control vs community care period (1982-1995). From the developm…
The Sharing of Roles between a Social Worker and Members of a Self-help Group for Mental Ex-patients in Australia
This a qualitative study on the collaboration of social workers and the members of GROW in South Australia. By means of participant observation in two self-help groups of GROW, the writer discovered that professionally trained social workers collaborated well with members in the self-help groups as they had similar backgrounds and experiences. Also, the social workers' roles in running these two groups were shared by group members who took up rol…
The community care movement in mental health services: Implications for social work practice
This article is a critical review about the community care movement in mental health services in the UK and the USA. This movement has important implications for psychiatric social work practice. First, social workers have to enrich the concept of community care with those of normalization and social integration. Second, they have to develop an accepting community for mental patients and outpatients. Finally, they are the most suitable people to …
Social Work Around the World
Construction of a Role Institutionalisation Instrument for Social Workers in Psychiatric Case Management
In Hong Kong, mental health services are still institutionalised. There might be a risk that the roles of social workers in psychiatric case management may be institutionalised. The writer has identified seven elements in role institutionalisation. They are: medicalisation legalisation, bureaucratisation, servicisation, hospitalisation, chronicisation and dehumanisation. These seven elements have aversive impacts on the roles of social workers in…
A Mutual-Aid Group for Psychiatric Rehabilitation of Mental Ex-Patients in Hong Kong
Background: Mutual-aid group and self-directed group are recognized as important interventions for anti-oppression of disadvantaged groups in our society. Method: In this paper, the writer describes a mutual-aid group implemented in a psychiatric half-way house in Hong Kong. Members in this group were free to set their own agenda for discussion and to invite guest speakers. In terms of various stages of this group, the writer discusses how differ…
Social Workers' Counselling Role in Psychiatric Services in Hong Kong
The role as a counsellor has long been recognised as an inherent role for social workers in psychiatric services. In Hong Kong, this role was recognised but not supported by the government. This paper is an account of an original research on the counselling role of social workers in psychiatric services in Hong Kong. In this research, 63 social workers in various psychiatric services were interviewed. Their perception and activities in this role …
An explorative study of peer influence and response to adolescent self‐cutting behavior in Hong Kong∗
This paper reports on a qualitative study of peer responses to self‐cutting of secondary school adolescents in Hong Kong. Through semi‐structured in‐depth interviews with three adolescent self‐cutters, their family members, and their peers, the peers’ response to adolescents’ self‐cutting was explored. The findings showed that different peers had different types of influence, as well as different responses to self‐cutting. Close and supportive pe…
Traditional Chinese Religious Beliefs and Superstitions in Delusions and Hallucinations of Chinese Schizophrenic Patients
Religious beliefs and superstitions have an important impact on the psychopathology of psychiatric patients. Traditional Chinese religious beliefs and superstitions, such as fortune telling, Buddhist gods, Taoist gods, historical heroic gods and ancestor worship, have important influence on subjective psychotic experiences, in particular delusions and hallucinations. By means of empirical phenomenological case narration, the writer shows that all…
Pattern of Adolescent Self-Cutting in Hong Kong: Reports from School Social Workers
This is a report of a study on the self-cutting pattern of adolescents in Hong Kong. This is a mini-scale study involving social workers working in thirty secondary schools. By means of an open-end questionnaire, they had to report various nature of self-cutting cases reported in their own schools. The finding showed that self-cutting was commonly found in secondary schools in Hong Kong. Most of the adolescents self-cutting behaviours were female…
A Critical Asian Response to Issues and Debates in Cross Cultural Counselling
Cross cultural and multicultural counselling are regarded as the fourth force of counselling in western multicultural countries like the USA and Canada. Its development is affected by the drastic development of multiculturalism and globalisation of economy. In this essay, the writer tries to discuss controversies and debates in cross cultural counselling. Its development stimulates social workers and counsellors to think about the discrepancies a…
Traditional Confucian Concepts of Mental Health: Its Implications to Social Work Practice with Chinese Communities
Traditional Confucian concept of mental health has a strong impact on the mental health of Chinese people. It stresses submissiveness of individuals to achieve harmony of the collective. Harmony is defined by the social order and authority figures in various social systems. It encourages people to restrain their emotions, avoid interpersonal conflicts and suppress individual rights so as to maintain a good harmony with others. Social workers shou…
Taoism and Its Impact on Mental Health of the Chinese Communities
Spirituality and religious coping is an important and rapidly expanding field in recent years. For the Chinese, traditional Taoism may still have a strong impact on the mental health of Chinese people. Taoistic concepts of mental health stress the transcendence from self and secularity, the dynamic revertism of nature, integration with nature and the pursuit of the infinite. Compared with western concepts of mental health, Taoism advocates self-t…
Adolescent Self-Cutters in Hong Kong
This paper is a report of a qualitative study on self-cutting of secondary school adolescents in Hong Kong. By means of in-depth interviews with three adolescents with self-cutting behaviours, their family members and peers, the cause, process and patterns of self-cutting were explored. The findings showed that the self-cutting was influenced by the adolescents' self-image, their sense of ambivalence, emptiness and frustration, their problems in …
Author's Response
An Historical Review of the Mental Health Services in the People’s Republic of China
Background: This paper is an attempt to describe the historical development of the mental health services in the PRC. Research Methods: An archive of related literature Findings: The development of the mental health services in the PRC could be divided into several stages: the introduction of mental asylums by western missionaries before 1949; indigenization of the treatment model after the establishment of the PRC (1949-1963). Strong political c…
A dynamic Asian response to globalization in cross-cultural social work
Authentization, indigenization, cultural sensitivity, cultural competence and globalization are controversial issues in cross-cultural social work. In this article, the writer tries to clarify all these related concepts. In terms of various Asian cultural contexts, a model of dynamic Asian response and exchange in the field of cross-cultural social work practice in Asian countries is suggested. French L'authentization, l'indigénisation, la sensib…
A Strengths Perspective in Understanding and Working with Clients with Psychosis and Records of Violence
Clients labeled psychotic and having records of violence have long been seen as dangerous and resistant. Within a medical disease orientation, institutionalization, social control, and medication are applied in treating and rehabilitating these clients. By means of a case illustration, this article shows that violence and psychosis are understandable and predictable. From a strengths perspective, clients with psychosis and records of violence are…
Chinese concepts of mental health: Cultural implications for social work practice
English In terms of the traditional Chinese medical, Confucian and Taoist schools of thought, Chinese concepts of mental health have a strong impact. All these have significant implications for culturally sensitive or culturally competent social work practice in Chinese communities. French Les concepts chinois de santé mentale, issus des écoles de pensée médicale chinoise traditionnelle, confucianiste et taoiste, ont un fort impact sur la santé m…
Indigenization of social work An international perspective and conceptualization
This paper describes various issues, challenges, and tensions occurring in indigenization of social work in different parts of the world. The writer conceptualizes a tri-dimensional model of indigenization that includes universality and specificity, dominance and minority, as well as tradition and present situations. The model may be used in locating, interpreting, and applying indigenization in various social, cultural, and political contexts
Reflectivity in social work practice with clients with mental-health illness: Promise and challenge in social work education
English The author's nine years' experience in developing social work students' practical reflectivity in working with clients with mental illness is described in this article. By means of various teaching strategies, students' different levels of reflectivity were developed. Promise and challenges to social work education are also discussed. French Dans cet article, l'auteur décrit son expérience de neuf ans en tant que formateur d'étudiants en …
Tensions and dilemmas of social work education in China
English Social work education in China has developed dramatically over the past decade. However, because of its unique social, cultural and political back-ground and contexts, its current and future development faces tensions associated with politicization, professionalization and commercialization in the fields of values, social service delivery, social work practice and curriculum development. French L'enseignement du travail social a pris un e…
A suggested push model for interpreting the dilemmas of institutional care, community care and family care of mental-health consumers
English This article suggests a push model for analyzing dilemmas between institutional care, community care and family care of mental-health consumers. In the USA community care is overloaded by inappropriate de-institutionalization. In Hong Kong, family caregivers are severely burdened by poor community care and highly institutionalized services. French Cet article suggéré un modèle dit de poussée dans l'analyse des dilemmas qui surgissent entr…
Community Mental Health in the People’s Republic of China: A Critical Analysis
Professionalization of Social-work Practice in the People's Republic of China A Tri-tensional Analysis
Social work has gradually developed and regained its formal recognition since the 1980s in the People's Republic of China. Because of its unique social, cultural, and political contexts, the professionalization of social work in China has to struggle within tensions from three domains: the professional domain, the political domain, and the market domain. Tensions within these three domains interact with one another dynamically in shaping the curr…
Political science (18 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Psychiatry (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Mental health (12 works) · Social Work (11 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · China (6 works)