Veronica Pearson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 92733 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Veronica Pearson |
| PRENOMES | Veronica |
| SOBRENOME | Pearson |
| ASSINATURA | PEARSON V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The uncut jade
BACKGROUND: Service user participation in direct service provision and evaluation has been developing in the western world in the past 20 years. However, this recovery-based care model is relatively new in Asia. AIM: To understand the views and perceptions of the service users and of psychiatric nurses about the recruitment of peer specialists in a regional psychiatric unit in Hong Kong. METHOD: A qualitative study using probe questions to unders…
What Does Recovery From Schizophrenia Mean? Perceptions of Medical Students and Trainee Psychiatrists
Background: The attitudes of medical professionals towards recovery from schizophrenia are key in defining the therapeutic encounter and may change as they move through their medical career. Method: A qualitative methodology was used based on three focus groups of medical students and trainee psychiatrists in Hong Kong. Both held pessimistic attitudes towards recovery in schizophrenia. Four major categories and one central theme emerged, with lit…
What does recovery from psychosis mean? Perceptions of young first-episode patients
Background: This study explored the experience of first-episode psychosis from the patients’ perspective and the meanings they attach to the illness and their recovery. Method: A qualitative methodology was used based on a focus group. Audio tapes were transcribed verbatim and three researchers participated in a content analysis that identified four major themes: the meaning of psychosis and psychotic experience; the meaning of recovery; stigma; …
Older Chinese men and women's experiences and understanding of sexuality
This study explored the meaning of sexuality for older Chinese people from diverse backgrounds and the role of traditional Chinese cultural values in shaping sexual expression. A total of 20 Hong Chinese elders were interviewed. Most reported a rigid definition of sexual behaviour, confining it to heterosexual sexual intercourse. Kissing, hugging and caressing were not considered 'sexual', and same-sex relationships were virtually absent from res…
What Does Recovery From Schizophrenia Mean? Perceptions of Long-Term Patients
Background: The study investigated the meaning of recovery to eight people with chronic schizophrenia. Method: A qualitative methodology was used based on a 3-hour focus group. The material was transcribed and analysed into 18 subcategories and 4 categories; namely recovery as a multi-dimensional construct, the relationship of medication to recovery, a sense of hopelessness and helplessness about recovery, factors that promoted recovery. Discussi…
What does recovery from schizophrenia mean? Perceptions of psychiatrists
This study investigated the meaning of recovery in schizophrenia in a group of trainee psychiatrists in Hong Kong. A qualitative methodology was used based on two, three-hour focus groups. A number of major categories emerged from this group of trainee psychiatrists, including the possibility of full recovery, indefinite use of antipsychotic medication, personal recovery in the presence of persistent symptoms and risk of patients to themselves an…
Competing philosophies in the classroom
The present paper examines the experiences of teachers in teaching children with special needs in mainstream schools and how they see and evaluate the feasibility of the new integration initiatives in Hong Kong. The data are based on individual and focus group interviews with general class teachers, resource class teachers and principals of mainstream schools admitting students with special needs. Teachers reported difficulties and problems in ma…
Family Burdens, Chinese Health Beliefs, and the Mental Health of Chinese Caregivers in Hong Kong
This study explored the types of family burdens, mental health and Chinese health beliefs of Chinese caregivers with relatives suffering from a serious mental illness. It also examined the impacts of these beliefs on caregivers' burdens and mental health. A structured questionnaire was administered to 125 Chinese caregivers in out-patient clinics in Hong Kong. Measures included distress (General Health Questionnaire), family burdens and belief in…
A Heart to Learn and Care? Teachers' responses toward special needs children in mainstream schools in Hong Kong
This article examines the problems associated with introducing integrated education into Hong Kong's mainstream schooling system. The research objectives were to examine the experience of teachers in teaching children with special needs in mainstream schools; to examine the attitude of mainstream teachers towards integrated education, and explore whether the differences in perception of difficulties and attitudes are attributable to types of disa…
The Structure and Content of Social Inclusion
The aim of the research described here was to examine the issue of social inclusion in relation to young people with a learning difficulty in Guangzhou. Ten families were included in this study based on their willingness to participate. The young people had to be over the age of 16 and not attending school. In each family the young person and a family carer (usually one of the parents) was interviewed separately. The article focuses mainly on the…
Glorious Work
Promises and policies in ensuring employment opportunities for disabled people are stipulated in the State Laws and local regulations of the People's Republic of China. It is assumed that having a job implies better integration in society. However, the experience of young adults with learning disability in finding jobs tells a very different story. This article analyses the experience, perceptions and worries of parents of such young adults who a…
Marginalization and Social Welfare in China . Linda Wong
A Slippery Road to Equality
This article examines the issue of children with a disability who are 'informally integrated' into mainstream school. Its main purpose is to reflect the views and experiences of parents, and to identify the major difficulties that arise and their suggestions for ameliorating the situation. The data is based on a series of interviews and focus groups of parents. In order to provide a balanced perspective, responses of schools to a questionnaire we…
Words Mean What I Want Them to Mean
Mental Health Care in China
The development of psychiatric services in China mental illness, law and rights health and social policy the patient in the community the municipal hospital the patients the patients' voices
The Past is another Country
Women in both Hong Kong and China have inherited the legacy of traditional values that severely discriminated against women compared to men. In terms of legal protections, women in mainland China enjoy an advantage. In real terms, Hong Kong women do better, as is shown in relation to education and work. Relocation of factories to Guangdong has created unemployment among older, less educated women in Hong Kong and has created opportunities for you…
Women and Health in China
A number of circumstances have combined in the reform era in China to put women at a more disadvantageous position now than at any other time since 1949. Some of them reflect age-old prejudices, others are the result of the economic reforms, but the two join in a synthesis to threaten women's improved status. Health factors that have particularly impinged on women include: the one-child policy and the skewed birth ratio in favour of boys that thi…
Goods on which one loses
The relationship between parenting stress and social support in mothers of children with learning disabilities
Community and Culture
Although psychiatric hospitals are thought to be the main focus of care for the mentally ill, China has not inherited the large asylums that were, and are, such a feature in the West. China has developed her own model of community care for the mentally ill, which is coherent with what are seen to be the available resources and fits into existing structures of social organisation. The elements in this model include small neighbourhood workstations…
The View From Below
This article is based on 18 interviews conducted with patients and relatives in the outpatients' department of Shashi psychiatric hospital in Hubei, China. The purpose of the interviews was to explore the pathways to care taken by relatives, the explanatory models used by them to account for the mental illness of their relative and their experience of the psychiatric services that were offered to them
The development of modern psychiatric services in China 1891-1949
Sexual Behaviour Following Paraplegia
This paper is based on interviews with 10 men all of whom became paraplegic through trauma in adult life. These interviewees and the interviewer are all Hong Kong Chinese. The interviews concentrated on the respondents' sexual adjustment and help they may or may not have received from professionals involved in their treatment and rehabilitation. The author examines the application of the individual and social models of handicap in the specific ar…
Making a virtue of necessity
Goods on which one loses
The Structure and Content of Social Inclusion
The aim of the research described here was to examine the issue of social inclusion in relation to young people with a learning difficulty in Guangzhou. Ten families were included in this study based on their willingness to participate. The young people had to be over the age of 16 and not attending school. In each family the young person and a family carer (usually one of the parents) was interviewed separately. The article focuses mainly on the…
Glorious Work
Promises and policies in ensuring employment opportunities for disabled people are stipulated in the State Laws and local regulations of the People's Republic of China. It is assumed that having a job implies better integration in society. However, the experience of young adults with learning disability in finding jobs tells a very different story. This article analyses the experience, perceptions and worries of parents of such young adults who a…
A Slippery Road to Equality
This article examines the issue of children with a disability who are 'informally integrated' into mainstream school. Its main purpose is to reflect the views and experiences of parents, and to identify the major difficulties that arise and their suggestions for ameliorating the situation. The data is based on a series of interviews and focus groups of parents. In order to provide a balanced perspective, responses of schools to a questionnaire we…
The relationship between parenting stress and social support in mothers of children with learning disabilities
A Heart to Learn and Care? Teachers' responses toward special needs children in mainstream schools in Hong Kong
This article examines the problems associated with introducing integrated education into Hong Kong's mainstream schooling system. The research objectives were to examine the experience of teachers in teaching children with special needs in mainstream schools; to examine the attitude of mainstream teachers towards integrated education, and explore whether the differences in perception of difficulties and attitudes are attributable to types of disa…
The Past is another Country
Women in both Hong Kong and China have inherited the legacy of traditional values that severely discriminated against women compared to men. In terms of legal protections, women in mainland China enjoy an advantage. In real terms, Hong Kong women do better, as is shown in relation to education and work. Relocation of factories to Guangdong has created unemployment among older, less educated women in Hong Kong and has created opportunities for you…
Making a virtue of necessity
Women and Health in China
A number of circumstances have combined in the reform era in China to put women at a more disadvantageous position now than at any other time since 1949. Some of them reflect age-old prejudices, others are the result of the economic reforms, but the two join in a synthesis to threaten women's improved status. Health factors that have particularly impinged on women include: the one-child policy and the skewed birth ratio in favour of boys that thi…
Competing philosophies in the classroom
The present paper examines the experiences of teachers in teaching children with special needs in mainstream schools and how they see and evaluate the feasibility of the new integration initiatives in Hong Kong. The data are based on individual and focus group interviews with general class teachers, resource class teachers and principals of mainstream schools admitting students with special needs. Teachers reported difficulties and problems in ma…
Family Burdens, Chinese Health Beliefs, and the Mental Health of Chinese Caregivers in Hong Kong
This study explored the types of family burdens, mental health and Chinese health beliefs of Chinese caregivers with relatives suffering from a serious mental illness. It also examined the impacts of these beliefs on caregivers' burdens and mental health. A structured questionnaire was administered to 125 Chinese caregivers in out-patient clinics in Hong Kong. Measures included distress (General Health Questionnaire), family burdens and belief in…
Words Mean What I Want Them to Mean
The View From Below
This article is based on 18 interviews conducted with patients and relatives in the outpatients' department of Shashi psychiatric hospital in Hubei, China. The purpose of the interviews was to explore the pathways to care taken by relatives, the explanatory models used by them to account for the mental illness of their relative and their experience of the psychiatric services that were offered to them
Sexual Behaviour Following Paraplegia
This paper is based on interviews with 10 men all of whom became paraplegic through trauma in adult life. These interviewees and the interviewer are all Hong Kong Chinese. The interviews concentrated on the respondents' sexual adjustment and help they may or may not have received from professionals involved in their treatment and rehabilitation. The author examines the application of the individual and social models of handicap in the specific ar…
Making a virtue of necessity
The development of modern psychiatric services in China 1891-1949
Community and Culture
Although psychiatric hospitals are thought to be the main focus of care for the mentally ill, China has not inherited the large asylums that were, and are, such a feature in the West. China has developed her own model of community care for the mentally ill, which is coherent with what are seen to be the available resources and fits into existing structures of social organisation. The elements in this model include small neighbourhood workstations…
The View From Below
This article is based on 18 interviews conducted with patients and relatives in the outpatients' department of Shashi psychiatric hospital in Hubei, China. The purpose of the interviews was to explore the pathways to care taken by relatives, the explanatory models used by them to account for the mental illness of their relative and their experience of the psychiatric services that were offered to them
The relationship between parenting stress and social support in mothers of children with learning disabilities
Goods on which one loses
The Past is another Country
Women in both Hong Kong and China have inherited the legacy of traditional values that severely discriminated against women compared to men. In terms of legal protections, women in mainland China enjoy an advantage. In real terms, Hong Kong women do better, as is shown in relation to education and work. Relocation of factories to Guangdong has created unemployment among older, less educated women in Hong Kong and has created opportunities for you…
Women and Health in China
A number of circumstances have combined in the reform era in China to put women at a more disadvantageous position now than at any other time since 1949. Some of them reflect age-old prejudices, others are the result of the economic reforms, but the two join in a synthesis to threaten women's improved status. Health factors that have particularly impinged on women include: the one-child policy and the skewed birth ratio in favour of boys that thi…
Mental Health Care in China
The development of psychiatric services in China mental illness, law and rights health and social policy the patient in the community the municipal hospital the patients the patients' voices
Marginalization and Social Welfare in China . Linda Wong
A Slippery Road to Equality
This article examines the issue of children with a disability who are 'informally integrated' into mainstream school. Its main purpose is to reflect the views and experiences of parents, and to identify the major difficulties that arise and their suggestions for ameliorating the situation. The data is based on a series of interviews and focus groups of parents. In order to provide a balanced perspective, responses of schools to a questionnaire we…
Words Mean What I Want Them to Mean
Glorious Work
Promises and policies in ensuring employment opportunities for disabled people are stipulated in the State Laws and local regulations of the People's Republic of China. It is assumed that having a job implies better integration in society. However, the experience of young adults with learning disability in finding jobs tells a very different story. This article analyses the experience, perceptions and worries of parents of such young adults who a…
The Structure and Content of Social Inclusion
The aim of the research described here was to examine the issue of social inclusion in relation to young people with a learning difficulty in Guangzhou. Ten families were included in this study based on their willingness to participate. The young people had to be over the age of 16 and not attending school. In each family the young person and a family carer (usually one of the parents) was interviewed separately. The article focuses mainly on the…
A Heart to Learn and Care? Teachers' responses toward special needs children in mainstream schools in Hong Kong
This article examines the problems associated with introducing integrated education into Hong Kong's mainstream schooling system. The research objectives were to examine the experience of teachers in teaching children with special needs in mainstream schools; to examine the attitude of mainstream teachers towards integrated education, and explore whether the differences in perception of difficulties and attitudes are attributable to types of disa…
Competing philosophies in the classroom
The present paper examines the experiences of teachers in teaching children with special needs in mainstream schools and how they see and evaluate the feasibility of the new integration initiatives in Hong Kong. The data are based on individual and focus group interviews with general class teachers, resource class teachers and principals of mainstream schools admitting students with special needs. Teachers reported difficulties and problems in ma…
Family Burdens, Chinese Health Beliefs, and the Mental Health of Chinese Caregivers in Hong Kong
This study explored the types of family burdens, mental health and Chinese health beliefs of Chinese caregivers with relatives suffering from a serious mental illness. It also examined the impacts of these beliefs on caregivers' burdens and mental health. A structured questionnaire was administered to 125 Chinese caregivers in out-patient clinics in Hong Kong. Measures included distress (General Health Questionnaire), family burdens and belief in…
What Does Recovery From Schizophrenia Mean? Perceptions of Long-Term Patients
Background: The study investigated the meaning of recovery to eight people with chronic schizophrenia. Method: A qualitative methodology was used based on a 3-hour focus group. The material was transcribed and analysed into 18 subcategories and 4 categories; namely recovery as a multi-dimensional construct, the relationship of medication to recovery, a sense of hopelessness and helplessness about recovery, factors that promoted recovery. Discussi…
What does recovery from schizophrenia mean? Perceptions of psychiatrists
This study investigated the meaning of recovery in schizophrenia in a group of trainee psychiatrists in Hong Kong. A qualitative methodology was used based on two, three-hour focus groups. A number of major categories emerged from this group of trainee psychiatrists, including the possibility of full recovery, indefinite use of antipsychotic medication, personal recovery in the presence of persistent symptoms and risk of patients to themselves an…
What Does Recovery From Schizophrenia Mean? Perceptions of Medical Students and Trainee Psychiatrists
Background: The attitudes of medical professionals towards recovery from schizophrenia are key in defining the therapeutic encounter and may change as they move through their medical career. Method: A qualitative methodology was used based on three focus groups of medical students and trainee psychiatrists in Hong Kong. Both held pessimistic attitudes towards recovery in schizophrenia. Four major categories and one central theme emerged, with lit…
What does recovery from psychosis mean? Perceptions of young first-episode patients
Background: This study explored the experience of first-episode psychosis from the patients’ perspective and the meanings they attach to the illness and their recovery. Method: A qualitative methodology was used based on a focus group. Audio tapes were transcribed verbatim and three researchers participated in a content analysis that identified four major themes: the meaning of psychosis and psychotic experience; the meaning of recovery; stigma; …
Older Chinese men and women's experiences and understanding of sexuality
This study explored the meaning of sexuality for older Chinese people from diverse backgrounds and the role of traditional Chinese cultural values in shaping sexual expression. A total of 20 Hong Chinese elders were interviewed. Most reported a rigid definition of sexual behaviour, confining it to heterosexual sexual intercourse. Kissing, hugging and caressing were not considered 'sexual', and same-sex relationships were virtually absent from res…
The uncut jade
BACKGROUND: Service user participation in direct service provision and evaluation has been developing in the western world in the past 20 years. However, this recovery-based care model is relatively new in Asia. AIM: To understand the views and perceptions of the service users and of psychiatric nurses about the recruitment of peer specialists in a regional psychiatric unit in Hong Kong. METHOD: A qualitative study using probe questions to unders…
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