PW01
In Search of a Culturally
Relevant Model for Global Family: A Dialogue Between
Therapy & Culture (PW01)
Trainer: Dr Wai-Yung Lee
Date: December 9, 2006 (Saturday)
Time: 10:00-17:00
Venue: HKU Family Institute ( 5/F, Tsan Yuk Hospital,
30 Hospital Road, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong)
Language: English
Workshop Fee: USD137 / HKD1,055 (including a handing
fee: USD7/HKD55 charged by the Bank)
Workshop Description:
Culture and ethnicity are two major
areas of concern in contemporary family therapy studies.
In this one day workshop, Dr. Lee will share the project
that she has collaborated with Prof. Yang Chung Fang,
a renowned expert on Chinese culture, in providing
family therapy training to various mental health institutes
in different parts of the Asian region. In this joint
venture, while Dr. Lee would conduct live family interviews
to demonstrate the clinical process, Prof. Yang would
provide a cultural analysis of the clinical data.
Their work has brought them to different parts of
Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong; covering a spectrum
of presenting problems, family patterns and beliefs,
and various family structures including a family of
eight generations.
Using video segments
of family sessions, Dr. Lee will address the similarities
and differences of family dynamics, cultural contexts,
and the family’s response to therapy with different
families in the region. These clinical data is considered
to be the most extensive in the field so far; showing
the process of Chinese families in therapy involving
children and adolescents, couples and trans-generational
families. In their attempt to blend therapy into culture,
these two clinical and cultural experts have also
found that each of them has adapted the thinking of
the other, to such an extent that their professional
boundaries become blur. As a result, they found themselves
more capable of merging into the rich ethnic context
in which the families they saw were embedded in.
The objective of the
workshop is to disperse the many myths about Asian
families, while providing a framework for a culturally
relevant approach in working with not just Chinese
families, but also families of the world.
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ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Dr. Lee Wai-Yung
is an Associate Professor and the Founding Director
of the HKU Family Institute. An AAMFT Approved Supervisor,
she is also on the faculty of the Minuchin Center
for the Family in New York. Her lively presentation
style and solid clinical background has made her a
much in demand trainer and presenter, who has delivered
keynotes and conducted workshops in many American
and European cities, including New York, San Francisco,
London, Torino and Cicely. In the past decade, she
has focused her work in the Asian region; promoting
family therapy and setting up the HKU Family Institute
in Hong Kong. A prolific writer, Dr. Lee has written
many articles on family therapy, particularly working
with Asian Chinese families. She has also co-authored
three books with Salvador Minuchin and other renowned
writers, with the most current one being ‘Assessing
Families and Couples-From Symptom to System.’
Payment Methods:
1. Please make a CHEQUE/BANKDRAFT payable to "The
Hong Kong Council of Social Service" and
mail it to the Secretariat, Room 1305, 13/F, Duke
of Windsor Social Service Building, 15 Hennessy
Road, Wanchai, HK by November 17, 2006; OR
2. Please complete the credit card payment form
and return it to the Secretariat by fax to (852)
2528 4230. ALL PAYMENT either
by cheque/bankdraft or credit card must be received
by NOVERMBER 17, 2006.
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PW0623
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
for Chinese People with Social Phobia in Hong Kong:
What and How to do it?
Trainer: Dr Fu-Keung Wong, Daniel
Date: December 9, 2006 (Saturday)
Time: 9:30-12: 30
Venue: Room 704, The Boys' and Girls' Culbes Association
of Hong Kong, 3 Lockhart Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
(10 minutes walk from the conference venue)
Language: English
This is a three-hours
workshop which aims at helping participants understand
the application of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
in working with Chinese people with social phobia
in Hong Kong. Specifically, participants will learn
a cognitive behavioral conceptualization of social
anxiety, and the application of various cognitive
and behavioral strategies in working with people with
social phobia in a group setting, such as cognitive
restructuring, behavioral experimentation and activity
scheduling. While we shall let participants go through
a few worksheets and exercises like members of our
CBT groups had done, we shall do some skills demonstration
in the workshop. Indeed, we hope that the workshop
can be interactive and interesting to the participants.
Another important aspect
of the workshop will be devoted to sharing how we
have conducted this clinical outcome study and document
our clinical findings about the effectiveness of our
CBT group for people with social phobia. Our research
and practice team has been running CBT groups for
the last 4 years and we have gathered a rich data
set of our clinical trials. We have adopted a randomized
waitlist control design, with experimental and control
groups, and a 3 months follow up test. The questionnaire
contains LSAS (a social anxiety inventory), COPE (a
coping behavior inventory), DAS (a dysfunctional thinking
inventory) and positive and negative emotions scale.
This questionnaire has been administered to participants
at pre-test, posttest and three-months follow up.
Statistical analyses using ANCOVA and Cohen's d method
of effect size statistics reveal that members of the
experimental groups had achieved significant improvement
in all the evaluation instruments. A hierarchical
regression analysis also shows that cognitive and
behavioral changes account for a substantial proportion
of variance in anxiety symptoms among participants
of the experimental group.
Lastly, we hope
to share with participants the process of indignizing
an essentially Western clinical model to Chinese population
in Hong Kong. In the process, we had to translate
all CBT terminologies into Cantonese and develop exercises
and worksheets so that CBT concepts and skills could
be understood and learnt by our group members. Issues
in adapting the model to Chinese population will be
discussed.
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