I-Chen Tang

Biographic Data

ID5822315
NAMEI-Chen Tang
GIVEN NAMESI-Chen
FAMILY NAMETang
SIGNATURETANG I
AFFILIATIONSChung Shan Medical University, Taiwan
ORCID0000-0002-8762-1437
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • Social Workers’ Attitudes on Social Justice in Taiwan

    Open AccessHsin-Yi Chen, Hsin‐Yi Chen et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2021

    As social justice is an essential social work concept, this study examined the factors that influenced the attitudes of social workers in Taiwan toward social justice through an analysis of Social Justice Scale-TW (SJS-TW) questionnaires conducted on a sample of 276 social workers. It was found that years of work experience, human rights training, and past participation in social protests were important moderating factors of supporting social jus…

  • Children’s rights in Taiwan: A qualitative study on social workers’ perspectives

    Open AccessHsin-Yi Chen, Hsin‐Yi Chen et al.ARTICLEInternational Social Work2020Cited by: 1References: 2

    The aim of this study was to investigate the perspectives of social workers in Taiwan on children’s rights. Among the 94 social workers who were interviewed, most were familiar with children’s rights terminology. From the results of this study, parental needs and the inability of young children to communicate effectively hindered the balance between protection of and participation by children. To better implement children’s rights, social workers…

  • Translating Human Rights: Creating culturally-specific human rights measures for social work in Spain, Taiwan, and the United States

    Open AccessJane Mcpherson, Carla Cubillos Vega et al.ARTICLEInternational Social Work2018Cited by: 2References: 2

    This Brief Note describes the challenges of translating English-language measures – Human Rights Exposure in Social Work and Human Rights Engagement in Social Work – into Spanish and Traditional Chinese. Authors discuss the cultural specificities that complicate translating rights across political boundaries and provide insight for undertaking cross-national translation

  • Social workers’ attitudes toward human rights in a sample from Taiwan

    Open AccessHsin-Yi Chen, Hsin‐Yi Chen et al.ARTICLEInternational Social Work2017Cited by: 5References: 5

    The human rights concept is that everyone is entitled to enjoy those rights inherent to being human, without distinction. However, should human rights be considered a self-evident value for the social work profession? This study was to explore how social workers in Taiwan perceive the human rights concept. Responses from 276 social worker participants were analyzed by using a self-administered questionnaire. This study showed that social workers …

  • Teaching about Human Rights in a Social Work Undergraduate Curriculum: The Taiwan Experience

    Hsin-Yi Chen, Hsin‐Yi Chen et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Social Work2015Cited by: 1References: 28

    This study was designed to investigate the transformation in attitude of social work undergraduate students following the completion of a human rights module near the end of their academic programme in Taiwan. Twenty-five students who enrolled in the ‘Human Rights, Gender and Social Work’ module at a university in central Taiwan were evaluated by means of self-reported change in attitude towards human rights before and after participation in this…

  • Social workers’ perceptions and experiences on the psychiatric disease mandatory assessment review committee: A qualitative study in Taiwan

    Open AccessI-Chen Tang, Huang-Chang Wu et al.ARTICLEInternational Social Work2013

    In Taiwan, the decision regarding compulsory detention of patients with severe psychiatric disorders is subject to review by the Psychiatric Disease Mandatory Assessment Review Committee. Approved psychiatric social workers are assigned to this court-like body to ensure the involuntary placement criteria are met. We conducted qualitative research to investigate the dilemmas of social workers on this committee

  • Framing Human Rights and Cultural Diversity Training in Social Work Classrooms—the Case of Female Marriage Immigrants in Taiwan

    Open AccessHsin-Yi Chen, Hsin‐Yi Chen et al.ARTICLEAffilia2013Cited by: 2References: 8

    Immigration from marriage has been on the increase in Taiwan since the 1980s.There are more and more foreign women from Southeast Asian countries that have married Taiwanese men. After foreign spouses arrive in Taiwan, they face difficulties such as spousal abuse and social stigma. We should be aware that social work undergraduates can be culturally insensitive and may harbor unintentional discrimination toward these immigrants. We propose a modu…