Yu Lung
Biographic Data
| ID | 6025085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yu Lung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yu |
| FAMILY NAME | Lung |
| SIGNATURE | LUNG Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2435-6725 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Field Note—Talk It Out Counseling Clinic
The COVID-19 pandemic introduced an unforeseen challenge to social work field education and drastically changed the landscape of social work direct practice. In March 2021, University of Toronto’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work launched the Talk It Out Counseling Clinic (the Clinic), training MSW students to provide short-term counseling and wellness workshops to residents in the Greater Toronto Area. Based on a community partnership mod…
Service Utilisation of an Innovative Mental Health Counselling Clinic
Responding to the increasing challenges to mental health equity, Talk It Out Counseling Clinic (the Clinic), an innovative, public-facing counselling service, was established at the University of Toronto during the pandemic. Operating on the principles of anti-oppression and trauma-informed care, the Clinic trains Master of Social Work students to deliver mental health counselling to populations encountering multiple barriers to mental health equ…
Negative Social Interactions at the Intersection of Gender, Race and Immigration Status in Canada
Negative social interactions (NSIs), defined as upsetting interpersonal encounters in daily life, are associated with adverse mental health conditions. Guided by an intersectional perspective, this study explored the impacts of gender, race and immigration status on the experiences of NSIs, using nationally representative data from the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey-Mental Health (CCHS-MH). The sample consisted of 21,932 participants acros…
The Moderating Role of Social Support in the Relationship between Poor Mental Health and Excessive Alcohol Consumption
Background: Social support can potentially attenuate the positive relationship between poor mental health and excessive drinking. The present study tried to understand: (1) whether there is a gender-specific relationship between poor mental health and excessive drinking; and (2) if and how social support moderates the relationship between poor mental health and excessive drinking. Methods: We analyzed the data from 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Sur…
Teaching Note—Virtual Practice Fridays
Preparing students for social work practice is an important responsibility shared by field education and schools of social work. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruptions to social work practice training and education in the classroom and field. This teaching note describes an online simulation-based learning activity known as Virtual Practice Fridays that was adapted from an in-person activity in response to the pandemic. Virtual Practice Fri…
Refugee status is associated with double the odds of psychological distress in mid-to-late life
Psychological distress is associated with a range of negative outcomes including lower quality of life and an increased risk of premature all-cause mortality. The prevalence of, and factors associated with, psychological distress among middle-aged and older Canadians are understudied. Using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) baseline data, this study examined factors associated with psychological distress among adults between 45 and …
Investigations involving urgent protection concerns vs. chronic needs
Previous research has proposed an urgent-chronic taxonomy of maltreatment investigations to better understand how child welfare services across Canada operationalized the dual mandate of child safety and well-being. Data from the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (OIS-2013a Fallon, B., Ma, J., Allan, K., Pillhofer, M., Trocmé, N., & Jud, A. (2013a). Opportunities for prevention and intervention with young children: Lesso…
The role of risk in child welfare decision-making
Residential Socioeconomic Environments and Areca Nut Use in Taiwan
Background While the association between residential socioeconomic environments and the use of globally common substances such as alcohol and tobacco has been well documented in Western countries, it remains little known about regionally important substances, such as areca nut in Asia. Objective: This study was aimed to develop residential environmental indicators in the context of Taiwan and examine their associations with areca nut use, in comp…
The role of risk in child welfare decision-making
Investigations involving urgent protection concerns vs. chronic needs
Previous research has proposed an urgent-chronic taxonomy of maltreatment investigations to better understand how child welfare services across Canada operationalized the dual mandate of child safety and well-being. Data from the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (OIS-2013a Fallon, B., Ma, J., Allan, K., Pillhofer, M., Trocmé, N., & Jud, A. (2013a). Opportunities for prevention and intervention with young children: Lesso…
Residential Socioeconomic Environments and Areca Nut Use in Taiwan
Background While the association between residential socioeconomic environments and the use of globally common substances such as alcohol and tobacco has been well documented in Western countries, it remains little known about regionally important substances, such as areca nut in Asia. Objective: This study was aimed to develop residential environmental indicators in the context of Taiwan and examine their associations with areca nut use, in comp…
Teaching Note—Virtual Practice Fridays
Preparing students for social work practice is an important responsibility shared by field education and schools of social work. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruptions to social work practice training and education in the classroom and field. This teaching note describes an online simulation-based learning activity known as Virtual Practice Fridays that was adapted from an in-person activity in response to the pandemic. Virtual Practice Fri…
Refugee status is associated with double the odds of psychological distress in mid-to-late life
Psychological distress is associated with a range of negative outcomes including lower quality of life and an increased risk of premature all-cause mortality. The prevalence of, and factors associated with, psychological distress among middle-aged and older Canadians are understudied. Using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) baseline data, this study examined factors associated with psychological distress among adults between 45 and …
Investigations involving urgent protection concerns vs. chronic needs
Previous research has proposed an urgent-chronic taxonomy of maltreatment investigations to better understand how child welfare services across Canada operationalized the dual mandate of child safety and well-being. Data from the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (OIS-2013a Fallon, B., Ma, J., Allan, K., Pillhofer, M., Trocmé, N., & Jud, A. (2013a). Opportunities for prevention and intervention with young children: Lesso…
The role of risk in child welfare decision-making
The Moderating Role of Social Support in the Relationship between Poor Mental Health and Excessive Alcohol Consumption
Background: Social support can potentially attenuate the positive relationship between poor mental health and excessive drinking. The present study tried to understand: (1) whether there is a gender-specific relationship between poor mental health and excessive drinking; and (2) if and how social support moderates the relationship between poor mental health and excessive drinking. Methods: We analyzed the data from 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Sur…
Negative Social Interactions at the Intersection of Gender, Race and Immigration Status in Canada
Negative social interactions (NSIs), defined as upsetting interpersonal encounters in daily life, are associated with adverse mental health conditions. Guided by an intersectional perspective, this study explored the impacts of gender, race and immigration status on the experiences of NSIs, using nationally representative data from the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey-Mental Health (CCHS-MH). The sample consisted of 21,932 participants acros…
Field Note—Talk It Out Counseling Clinic
The COVID-19 pandemic introduced an unforeseen challenge to social work field education and drastically changed the landscape of social work direct practice. In March 2021, University of Toronto’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work launched the Talk It Out Counseling Clinic (the Clinic), training MSW students to provide short-term counseling and wellness workshops to residents in the Greater Toronto Area. Based on a community partnership mod…
Service Utilisation of an Innovative Mental Health Counselling Clinic
Responding to the increasing challenges to mental health equity, Talk It Out Counseling Clinic (the Clinic), an innovative, public-facing counselling service, was established at the University of Toronto during the pandemic. Operating on the principles of anti-oppression and trauma-informed care, the Clinic trains Master of Social Work students to deliver mental health counselling to populations encountering multiple barriers to mental health equ…
Medicine (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works) · Mental health (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Family medicine (3 works)