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Video Presentation:
Engaging Health and Mental Health Practitioners in
the Research Enterprise: The Past, the Present and
the Future
Dr Helen REHR
Professor of Community Medicine (Social Work) Emerita,
Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, USA
Helen Rehr has been
in the field of health and mental health since 1943
and spent 30 of these years with the Social Work Department
at Mount Sinai Medical Center. In her work she has
developed innovative pacesetting social work programs
and effectively demonstrated the essential role that
social work plays in health and mental health settings.
Her distinguished career has been dedicated not just
to serving client populations but also to demonstrating
to social workers and to other health professionals
just how vital an ingredient social work is in the
delivery of effective quality health care. Her retirement
is a most active one as she continues her affiliation
with Mount Sinai Hospital as a consultant and actively
works with Mount Sinai’s international exchange program
which she developed and with several
other health, mental health and academic organizations.
She has won many national and international awards
for her leadership in social work policy, practice
and research. The International Conference on Social
Work in Health and Mental Health is a direct outgrowth
of her work and inspired by her vision.
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Practice-based
Research in Health Care Settings: Organizational Impediments,
Incentives and the Balance between Them
Professor Gail K AUSLANDER
Professor, Paul
Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ISRAEL
Professor Gail K. Auslander
is the Zena Harman Professor of Social Work, Paul
Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Her research,
teaching and publications focus on the psycho-social
aspects of health, illness and disability, in Israel
and internationally. Her recent work examines the
continuum of care for hospitalized patients and the
role of the family in providing care for patients
with acute illness episodes.
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Promoting
Harmony Where There Is Commonly Conflict: Practice-based
Research as an Integrative Strategy
Professor Irwin EPSTEIN
Helen Rehr Professor, Applied Social Work Research
(Health & Mental Health), Hunter College School
of Social Work, USA
Professor Irwin Epstein
occupies the Helen Rehr Chair in Applied Social Work
Research, has taught at the University of Michigan
and Howard University in the United States and at
the University of Warwick and the University of Wales
(Cardiff) in Britain. He has conducted practice-based
research workshops at universities and social agencies
in the United States, Australia, Europe and Israel.
Co-author of several books and numerous articles on
social worker professionalization and research utilization,
his current interest is in exploring clinical data-mining
as a practice-research methodology. His most recent
books on the subject are: Clinical Data-Mining in
Practice-Based Research: Social Work in Hospital Settings,co-edited
with Susan Blumenfield and Clinical and Research Uses
of an Adolescent Intake Questionnaire: What Kids Need
to Talk About, co-edited with Ken Peake and Daniel
Medeiros. Another collection of data-mining studies
co-edited with Lynette Joubert, is a collection of
multi-disciplinary data-mining studies conducted by
Australian allied health practitioners. It will be
published as a special issue of the Journal of Social
Work Research and Evaluation.
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Cosmocentric Social
Work: Spiritual Diversity and Communion for the Healing
of the World
Professor Edward R CANDA
Professor, School of Social Welfare, University of
Kansas, USA
Professor Edward R. Canda, M.A.,
MSW, Ph.D., is Professor and Director of the Ph.D.
Program in Social Work at the University of Kansas
in the USA. He is a member of the university's Center
for East Asian Studies, which generously provides
support for this symposium on spirituality in social
work. He is an advocate for international cooperations
that advance understanding of spiritual diversity
in social work. He has more than 100 publications
related to topics of spirituality, cultural diversity
and health in social work. In 1990, he founded the
USA based Society for Spirituality and Social Work.
He currently hosts the online Spiritual Diversity
and Social Work Resource Center(via www.socwel.ku.edu/canda).
Dr. Canda has presented in many countries throughout
the world, with special interests in East Asia.
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Bereavement
Counseling and Support in Buddhist Perspective
The Venerable SIK Jing Yin
Director, Centre of Buddhist Studies, HKSAR, CHINA
Ven. Dr. JING YIN, PhD (London), Director of the
Centre of Buddhist Studies. Ven Jing Yin specializes
in Vinaya, Chinese Buddhism and applied Buddhism.
He has been a monk for over 25 years with much experience
in providing spiritual guidance to the dying and counseling
to their relatives. Ven Jing Yin founded the Buddhist
Education Foundation in UK in 1996. He has written
two Buddhist text books for young school children
in UK with an aim to promote their personal growth.
Since he took up the current post four years ago,
he has published eight books on Buddhist teachings.
He is the chief-editor of Spiritual Journey to Tunhuang
by Commercial Press.
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Can the New Buddhist
Syllabus and its Related Workshops Enhance the Sense
of Coherence of the 200 Participating High School Students
Involved in the Study? The Venerable
SIK Hin Hung
Director, Awareness Spiritual Growth Centre, HKSAR,
CHINA
Venerable Sik Hin Hung MA (London)
is a Buddhist monk ordained under the Mahayana tradition.
His main interest is in ‘repackaging’ the Teaching
of Buddhism so that it becomes ‘user friendly’ for
people in today’s world. He is one of the Founding
Fellows of the Centre of Buddhist Studies of The University
of Hong Kong where he is also teaching. Ven. Sik is
also providing counseling and spiritual guide to staffs
of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority and needy. He
has published books and articles on Buddhism, psychotherapy
and personal growth. The motto of the spiritual and
growth center found by him is “Be mindful of your
heart!” His current research projects include: “Orientation
to Life Enhancement Project” designed for high schools
students and Dharma Therapy.
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Development of Community
Mental Health Programs in Japan and Contributions of
Consumer and Family Group Movements Professor
Iwao OSHIMA
Associate professor, Department of Mental Health,
Tokyo University Graduate School of Medicine, JAPAN
Professor Iwao OSHIMA is Associate Professor of the
University of Tokyo, Department of Mental Health,
Graduate School of Medicine. He is also a board member
of Japanese Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation.
He had been Managing Director of Mental Health and
Welfare Research Institute of Zenkaren (the nationwide
family groups organization in Japan) for thirteen
years, and the editor of Japanese Journal of Hospital
and Community Psychiatry for ten years. He has been
interested in and associated with development of innovative
psycho-social intervention programs in mental health
in Japan, such as family psychoeducation, case management,
home-help service, and assertive community treatment
(ACT), particularly from the perspectives of consumers
and families, and conducting several influential program
evaluation studies in Japan.
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Professor John CARPENTER
Professor, School for Policy Studies, University of
Bristol, UK
Professor John Carpenter holds the Chair of Social
Work and Applied
Social Science at Bristol University, U.K. He was
previously Professor of Social Work at Durham University
(1997-2005). For the last ten years his research has
focused on community-based mental health services,
de-institutionalisation, interprofessional education,
therapeutic family support services and disabled children.
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Community Psychiatric
Rehabilitation Services in Hong Kong: A New Initiative
of Social Enterprises in creating Training and Employment
opportunities for People with Psychiatric Disability
Miss Deorah WAN Lai-yau
Chief Executive Officer, New Lif Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Association, HKSAR, CHINA
Ms Deborah Wan is a Registered Social
Worker. She is currently the Chief Executive Officer
of New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
(NLPRA) and she has held this position ever since
1981. She is committed and dedicated to developing
community psychiatric rehabilitation services in Hong
Kong and she has initiated many innovative projects
for the benefits of the service users and won awards
on Best Pilot and Best Practice Projects. She is a
Board Member of the World Federation for Mental Health
(WFMH) since 2003 and currently the Vice President
of the Western Pacific Region. She now chairs the
Commission on Work & Employment of the Asia-Pacific
Region of Rehabilitation International. Ms WAN has
established a close network with Mainland China, countries
in the Asian & Pacific areas and provides consultancy
service to organizations in the mental health field.
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Changing Chinese Cultural
Conceptions of Mental Health and Mental Illness: Implications
for Cultural Sensitive Practices
Dr Daniel Fu-Keung WONG
Associate Professor of Department of Social Work and
Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong,
HKSAR, CHINA
Dr Daniel Fu Keung Wong is Associate
Professor of the Department of Social Work and Social
Administration, The University of Hong Kong. His major
area of research interest resolves around issues concerning
the relationship between culture and mental health.
He has written numerous articles regarding how Chinese
cultural values influence the perceptions and management
of mental illness. Dr. Wong is also a qualified cognitive
therapist and engages in practice research in experimenting
and indigenizing different clinical approaches in
working with Chinese people with mental health problems.
His recent published book, “Clinical Case Management
for People with Mental Illness” provides mental health
social workers with a theoretical framework and practical
assessment and intervention skills in working with
people with mental illness.
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Utilizing Family
Strengths and Resilience: Family-Community Systems Therapy
(FCST) with Severely Disturbed Child or Adolescent
Dr Mo-yee LEE
Professor, College of Social Work, The Ohio State University,
USA
Dr Mo Yee Lee is Professor, College
of Social Work, The Ohio State University. She has
a dual scholarly focus that include practice and research
regarding a solution-focused, strengths-based, and
systems perspective in social work treatment, as well
as cross-cultural clinical practice with individuals
and families. Her research focuses on domestic violence
issues, home-based treatment, depression, and clinical
practice framework that cross-fertilizes Western and
Eastern philosophy and therapeutic techniques in creating
effective changes in individuals and families. Her
first book “Solution-focused treatment with domestic
violence offenders: Accountability for change” was
published by The Oxford University Press in 2003.
In collaboration with Professor Cecilia Chan and other
associates at The Centre on Behavioral Health in Hong
Kong, her new book “Evidence-Based Integrative Therapy:
An Eastern Holistic Approach toward Harmony and Transformation”
will be published by The Oxford University Press in
2007.
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Therapeutic Encounters
with Anorexia Nervosa: The Applicability of Family Therapy
in a Chinese Context
Professor Joyce L. C. MA
R. S. W., Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor, AAMFT
, HKSAR, CHINA
Professor Ma is a Professor, Associate
Dean (Student Affairs), Faculty of Social Science,
Department of Social Work, The Chinese University
of Hong Kong; she is the registered social worker,
Clinical member and Approved Supervisor of the American
Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT).
She obtained her B. Sc. Sc. in 1979, M. Soc. Sc. (distinction)
in 1984 and Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of Hong
Kong. Professor Ma is the Vice-Chairperson of the
Social Workers Registration Board, Hong Kong as well
as the ex-Chief Editor of the Hong Kong Journal of
Social Work, Hong Kong Social Workers Association.
Her professional and research interests are on mental
health and family therapy research. She set up the
Shengang Family Treatment Centre, Nanshan Hospital,
Shenzhen in 2003, the first family treatment centre
in Southern China and was appointed as the Consultant
Family Therapist there. Prof. Ma has published widely
in venues with significant impact and visibility,
including Journal of Family Therapy, Family Therapy
Journal, Social Work in Mental Health, Health &
Social Work.
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Long Term Effects
of Early Intervention – A Preliminary Analysis on Child
Care Data of the Taiwan Birth Cohort Study Dr
Joyce Yen FENG
Dean of Student Affairs and Professor of Department
of Social Work, National Taiwan University, TAIWAN
Dr Joyce yen Feng is teaching at
Department of Social Work in National Taiwan University,
and currently serving as the Dean of Student Affairs.
She obtained her Social Work Ph.D. degree in 1988
from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her
research interests and publications mainly are in
the areas of Child Welfare and Non Profit Organizations.
Dr. Feng has been heavily involved with the formation
and operation of a number of NPO in Taiwan, such as
the Child Welfare League Foundation Taiwan, United
Way Taiwan, and the Self-Regulation Alliance of Taiwan
Philanthropic Organization. She is also Internationally
connected with some INGO and academic societies, too.
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Therapeutic Games
and Guided Imagery As Tools for Health and Mental Health
Professionals
Dr Monit CHEUNG
Chair of Children & Families Concentration, Graduate
College of Social Work, University of Houston, USA
Dr Monit Cheung, MA, MSW, PhD, LCSW,
is Professor and Chair of Children and Families Concentration
at the Graduate College of Social Work, University
of Houston. She is principal investigator of the Title
IV-E Child Welfare Education Project and a licensed
clinical social worker specializing in family counseling,
child/adolescent counseling, child sexual abuse and
incest survivor treatment. Having taught at the graduate
level for 20 years, Dr. Cheung also serves multiple
roles in the community as family counselor, sexual
abuse case reviewer, radio character, newspaper columnist,
conference presenter, and interdisciplinary trainer
both in the United States and Hong Kong.
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Mobilising Women
for Achieving Health Rights - Case study from India
Professor Vimla NADKARNI
Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai,
INDIA
Professor Vimla V. Nadkarni, Ph.D.,
is Dean, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of
Social Sciences, India. She started as a hospital
based social worker and then went into teaching. She
was Lecturer in the College of Social Work, Mumbai
(1976-1984). She worked as the Secretary General of
the Family Planning Association of India (2001-2002).
She has conducted several studies, initiated several
Field Action Projects in urban and rural health and
published 28 articles in national and international
books/journals. She is working on a publication on
Urban Health Initiatives. She is founder member of
the Social Work in Health Inequalities Network.
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Spirituality, Environmentalism
and Consumer Society: Persistent Realities in Education
for Social Work Practice
Dr Fred H BESTHORN
Associate Professor, College of Social and Behavioral
Sciences, University of Northern Iowa, USA
Dr Fred H. Besthorn holds a M.S.W.
and Ph.D. in social work from the University of Kansas
and a Master of Divinity from Grace Theological Seminary.
He is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University
of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA. This begins
his fifth year at UNI. Prior to coming to UNI, Dr
Besthorn served for five years as assistant professor
in the Department of social work at Washburn University
in Topeka, Kansas.
Dr Besthorn has written extensively
on the development of a framework for integrating
deep ecological awareness with social work policy
and strengths-based practice. This involves research
on the relationship between environmental degradation
and its social, economic and spiritual impact on disadvantaged
populations.
He is the creator of The Global Alliance
for a Deep-Ecological Social Work. This unique organization
unites social workers around the world sharing a commitment
to incorporating deep environmental awareness into
traditional social work practice. The organization
has a web site at www.ecosocialwork.org
and held its first North American conference in 2001.
Dr. Besthorn is also the founder of Earth Consciousness:
The Journal of Environmental Social Work and Human
Services; the first on-line journal of it’s kind devoted
exclusive to the creative works of social workers
and human service professionals who care deeply for
the natural world.
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Health for all and all
for Health
Dr Kwok-Cho TANG
Senior Professional Officer, Department of Chronic
Diseases and Health Promotion, World Health Organization
Dr Tang Kwok-cho is Senior Professional
Officer in Health Promotion of the World Health Organization.
He has played a leading role in the development of
the Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized
World which provides direction for health promotion
practice worldwide - to address the determinants of
health, in particular, to tackle the social and economic
causes of poor health. He also leads a global programme
on building institutional capacity to promote health.
Dr Tang previously worked in Southern Sydney Area
Health Service in health promotion and taught at the
School of Public Health at the University of Sydney.
Prior to that, he worked at the Evangelical Lutheran
Church Social Service and Sik Sik Yuen in Hong Kong.
Dr Tang has undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications
in social sciences and public sector management.
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Dr Bartholomew SHAHA
Secretary General, World Alliance of YMCAs
Dr Bartholomew Shaha is the Secretary
General of the World Alliance
of YMCAs which is a federation of YMCAs working in
124 countries. Dr Shaha is from Bangladesh. He holds
a Master of Arts degree from the University of Portland,
Oregon, USA and a PhD from the Department of Social
Work and Social Administration of the University of
Hong Kong. His PhD Thesis is titled Leadership for
Process-oriented Social Development: A Path Towards
Building Community. His publications include among
books: Leaders We Want and Seeking Abundant Life for
All, and compact discs: Songs of Awakening and Hope
and For My Mother Language (both in Bengali).
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Inequalities in Reproductive
Health: What is the Challenge for Social Work and How
Can it Respond? Professor Eric BLYTH
Professor of Social Work, School of Human and Health
Sciences, University of Huddersfield, UK
Professor Eric Blyth is Professor
of Social Work at the University of Huddersfield,
England and Adjunct Professor at the John Dossetor
Health Ethics Centre, University of Alberta, Canada
and Honorary Professor in the Department of Social
Work and Social Administration at the University of
Hong Kong. He is Chair of the British Association
of Social Workers’ Project Group on Assisted Reproduction
(PROGAR). He has written extensively on assisted conception,
including Third Party Assisted Conception across Cultures:
Social, Legal and Ethical Perspectives (co-edited
with Ruth Landau) and Assisted Conception and Family-Building
in the 21st Century (in press). He is currently joint
editor of the British Journal of Social Work.
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Intervention
for Domestic Violence Perpetrators: What Works, What
Doesn't and What Else should We Try?
Professor Richard M TOLMAN
Associate Dean of Education Programs and Professor
of Social Work, University of Michigan, USA
Dr. Richard Tolman is a Professor
and Associate Dean for Educational Programs at the
University of Michigan, School of Social Work. He
studies violence against women and children, the effectiveness
of interventions designed to change violent and abusive
behavior, and the traumatic effects of violence on
the well-being of victims.
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Extending the Boundaries
of Health Social Work Practice : Collaboration and Integration
: Expertise and Outcome Dr Lynette
JOUBERT
Lecturer, School of Social Work, University of Melbourne,
AUSTRALIA
Dr Lynette Joubert trained as a Social
Worker and Clinical Psychologist and has had experience
as a clinician, teacher and researcher in mental health
and health. She is a Senior Lecturer in the School
of Social Work at the University of Melbourne, the
Coordinator of the Health Practice Research Unit in
the school, Honorary Associate Professor in the Department
of Social Work and Social Administration at the University
of Hong Kong, and a member of the Behavioral Research
and Ethics Committee of the University of Melbourne.
She is a chief investigator on competitively funded
research projects related to the needs of families
and children from culturally and linguistically diverse
families receiving care from the Cancer Centre at
the Royal Children’s Hospital, the care of the elderly
with depression who present to emergency, the presentation
of elder abuse in acute care, lifestyle management
and secondary risk in cardiac patients and the contribution
of psychosocial factors to depression after stroke
and secondary stroke prevention. She is an academic
investigator on a commonwealth funded program, and
principal investigator on an Australian Research Council
grant into the evaluation of a psychosocial intervention
on deliberate self harm at Western Hospital. She works
as a research consultant in the Aged Care and Allied
Health Directorate at St Vincent's Health, is a member
of the Psychosocial Oncology Research Committee at
the Royal Children's Hospital, the Psychosocial Oncology
Committee and the Psycho-oncology Research Committee
of the Cancer Council, Victoria.
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Tackling Inequalities
in Health: An Essential Challenge for Social Work
Professor Paul BYWATERS
Director, Centre of Social Justice, Faculty of Business,
the Environment and Society, Coventry University,
UK
Professor Paul Bywaters is Professor of Social Work
at Coventry University, UK. Now in a research role,
he was previously a social worker and social work
educator, for more than ten years leading the University’s
social work department. Often working with Dr. Eileen
McLeod, he has written and edited numerous books and
articles including 'Social Work, Health and Equality'
(2000) and 'Working For Equality in Health' (1996).
More recently his work has encompassed a wide variety
of dimensions of social work and health inequalities
including self-harm, race and disability, and older
people's health and social care. Paul is co-founder
and Convenor of the Social Work and Health Inequalities
Network.
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Dr Christy N FONG
National Health Coordinator, World Vision China
Dr Christy Fong, Ph.D. M.P.H. R.N.,
is the National Health Coordinator of World Vision
China and is in-charge of the Health Department. She
facilitates responsive health strategies of the organization
and builds corporate technical capacity in health.
She also technically supports tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS
control programs
in different parts of China. Dr Fong received her
public health training from Johns Hopkins School of
Public Health. She was inducted as lifetime member
of the American Public Health Honorary Society, Delta
Omega Chapter of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
of the American Public Health Association. She received
several scholarships, including the Moisari Mpaayei
Mbene Women Scholarship from World Vision International
for her contribution to improving maternal and child
health in poor and ethnic minority population in China,
the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program
from the World Bank and the Ernest Lyman and Helen
Ross Stebbins Scholarship from Johns Hopkins School
of Public Health for her outstanding academic performance
and potential contribution to public health practice.
Her master study was mainly on health system management
in developing country context while her doctoral study
was focused on infectious diseases control in China,
including tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. Dr Fong had ten
years of frontline experience in public health work
as well as integrating health with development work
in impoverished communities in China.
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Professor Thomasina BORKMAN
Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
George Mason University, USA
Professor Thomasina Borkman, Professor
of Sociology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia,
USA since 1974, specializes in social aspects of health,
illness and disability. With a 1969 doctorate from
Columbia University, New York City, her research and
“real world” consulting have gained her an international
reputation. Interdisciplinary work with social workers
and community psychologists intProernationally (Japan,
United Kingdom, Canada and Sweden) is her hallmark.
Well known for the concept of “experiential knowledge,”
namely that self-help groups and persons gain wisdom
and information from lived experience, her recent
book is Understanding Self-Help/Mutual Aid: Experiential
Learning in the Commons, Rutgers University Press,
1999.
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Social Work and Aging
in the Emerging Health and Mental Health Care World
(to be confirmed)
Dr Barbara
J. BERKMAN
Helen Rehr / Ruth Fizdale Professor of Health and Mental
Health, Columbia University School of Social Work, USA
Dr Barbara Berkman is the Helen Rehr / Ruth Fizdale
Professor of Health and Mental Health at Columbia
University School of Social Work (CUSSW) and Adjunct
Professor, Department of Community and Preventive
Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York
City. Dr. Berkman received her DSW in Social Work
from CUSSW, an MA from the University of Chicago School
of Social Service Administration, and her BA with
distinction in Philosophy from the University of Michigan.
Following her doctorate, she was awarded a Kellogg
fellowship to study the outcome of geriatric social
work health care service delivery. She has directed
23 federally and foundation supported research projects
focusing on issues in geriatric care, and is currently
Principal Investigator and Director of the John A.
Hartford Foundation’s Geriatric Social Work Faculty
Scholars Program. She is a former President of the
Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research
(IASWR).
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A Cross-Cultural
Comparison of Social Isolation and Mental Health among
Older Americans
Dr James LUBBEN
Louise McMahon Ahearn University Chair, Boston College
School of Social Work, USA
Principal Investigator and National Director Hartford
Doctoral Fellows Program, Geriatric Social Work Initiative
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Successful Aging,
Contentment and Chinese Elders
Dr Lee Ann Mjelde-Mossey
Assistant Professor in the College of Social Work,
The Ohio State University, USA
Research Fellow, Sau Po Centre on Ageing, The University
of Hong Kong, HKSAR, CHINA
Lee Ann Mjelde-Mossey, Ph.D. is an
Assistant Professor in the College of Social Work
at The Ohio State University and a Research Fellow
in the Sau Po Centre on Ageing at the University of
Hong Kong. Her areas of interest are active and productive
aging; cultural influences on aging, and East Asian
elders. More specifically, the focus is upon the effects
of losing a traditional productive role within the
family and society. Her publications on Chinese elders
include the development of measures of tradition and
life satisfaction; the relationship between adherence
to tradition and depression; and volunteerism. Publications
on East Asian elders include the implications of changing
cultural and social environments for older women;
and cultural dissonance among the generations in a
family.
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Stresses and Joys
of Grandparents in Singapore
Dr Kalyani K MEHTA, PhD
Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work,
National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
Dr Kalyani K. Mehta, Ph.D. is an
Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work,
National University of Singapore. She received a Research
Scholarship from NUS towards her Ph.D degree from
the National University of Singapore. She has been
researching on the field of Social Gerontology for
the past 15 years. Although most of her research is
conducted in Singapore, she has extensive knowledge
of the Asia Pacific region. Her publications include
six books, three of which are co-authored, and more
than 40 articles on the subject of gerontology in
well-reputed international and regional journals.
Some of these journals are Ageing and Society, Journal
of Aging Studies, International Journal of Aging and
Human Development, Journal of Cross- Cultural Gerontology
and Journal of Aging and Social Policy.
Her research interests include social
policies and their impact on older people, long term
care policies and services, gender issues, retirement,
the impact of widowhood, grandparenting and caregiving
for older persons. She has been involved in international
research teams and is invited to be consultant to
world bodies such as Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP, United Nations).
Her involvement in international
research projects include a ten-year study headed
by Emeritus Professor Albert Hermalin from the University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a current study on Assistance
and Disability in U.S. and Singapore that is carried
out collaboratively with Professor Lois Verbrugge
of the Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor. The main publication from the first study
was released in December 2002 by the University of
Michigan Press and is entitled “The Well Being
of the Elderly in Asia: A four country comparative
study”, in which she has two co-authored chapters.
Kalyani Mehta has been teaching in
the Department of Social Work for the past eleven
years as a fulltime faculty member. Her specialization
is social gerontology, although she also teaches modules
such as social work skills in working with older persons,
group work modalities, introduction to social work
and social work in cross-cultural contexts.
She is the Immediate past president
of the Gerontological Society of Singapore and a member
of the Gerontological Society of America and British
Society of Gerontology.
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Prevalence of depression
and its correlates in Hong Kong Chinese older adults
Dr Iris CHI
School of Social Work, University of Southern California,
USA
Dr Iris Chi was installed as the Chinese-American
Golden Age Association/Frances Wu Chair for the Chinese
Elderly in 2004 and currently directs the China Program
at the School of Social Work, University of Southern
California. She also has a joint appointment in the
USC Davis School of Gerontology. Prior to joining
the USC, she taught at the University of Hong Kong
for 17 years, in addition to chairing the Department
of Social Work and its postgraduate research programs
and serving as the director of the Sau Po Centre on
Aging. As a result of her extensive work and expertise,
the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government
appointed her to the Elderly Commission, a post she
has held for 7 years. In 2004, the city of Hong Kong
honored Dr. Chi with the Bronze Bauhina Star for her
meritorious public and community service with the
city’s public policies on aging population.
An expert in gerontology, Dr. Chi
has participated in more than 60 studies and published
more than 150 articles on Chinese older adults. She
has also been involved in seven cross-national collaborative
research projects and she won several research awards.
Dr. Chi is an honorary professor, member, consultant
and advisor to more than 30 local and overseas elderly-related
organizations and universities. She is also an expert
reviewer and editorial board member for both gerontology
and social work journals. In addition, Dr. Chi serves
on the Commission on Curriculum and Educational Innovation
for the Council on Social Work Education, chairs the
nomination committee for the International Association
of the Schools of Social Work and was appointed an
external examiner for Women's College in Beijing.
Most recently, she was elected a national research
mentor for the Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty
Scholars Program and appointed to the National Program
Advisory Committee for the Hartford Doctoral Fellows.
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Transforming Community Mental Health
Systems: A 21st Century California Experiment
Dr Marilyn FLYNN
Dean and Professor, School of Social Work, University
of Southern California, USA
Marilyn Flynn has served as Dean
and Professor in the School of Social Work at the
University of Southern California, Los Angeles for
nearly a decade. She received her MSW and PhD from
the University of Illinois at Urbana, with specializations
in social policy and economics. Her research interests
include cross-cultural perspectives on service delivery,
social program design, and higher education. She has
held several positions of national leadership in the
US Council on Social Work Education and was founding
President of the St. Louis Group, representing North
American schools of social work in research extensive
universities.
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Financial Strain, Social
and Personal Coping Resources, and Depressive Symptoms
in a Clinical Sample of Older Latinos in the USA
Dr Maria P ARANDA
Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University
of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Dr Aranda joined the USC School
of Social Work faculty in 1995 and holds a joint appointment
with the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.
Dr Aranda’s research and teaching interests address
the interplay between chronic illness, social resources
and psychological well-being in low-income minority
populations. Dr Aranda has served as principal investigator
or co-investigator on several key studies funded by
and/or in collaboration with the National Institute
of Mental Health, National Cancer Institute, The John
A. Hartford Foundation/The Gerontological Society
of America, National Institute of Rehabilitation and
Research, Alzheimer’s Association/Health Resources
and Services Administration, Los Angeles County Department
of Mental Health, Larson Endowment for Innovative
Research and Teaching and AltaMed Health Services
Corp. Overall, her research addresses the study of
psychosocial care of adult and late-life psychiatric
disorders, ethnic and racial diversity in the delivery
of mental health services and sociocultural adaptations
to evidence-based social work practice. She has also
served as a consultant to several population-based
studies on health and aging among Latino populations
in
the US and Latin America. Dr Aranda has over 20 years
of licensed clinical experience providing mental health
services to older adults with psychiatric disorders.
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Dr Elizabeth PALLEY
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Adelphi
University , Long Island, New York, USA
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Dr Andrew WEISSMAN
Associate Professor, Department of Community &
Preventive Medicine, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
USA
Dr Andrew Weissman, Ph.D., Associate
Professor in the Department of Community and Preventive
Medicine., has been on the faculty of the Mount
Sinai School of Medicine since 1979. Dr. Weissman
received his B.A. from Antioch College, M.A. in
Social Work from The University of Chicago, School
of Social Service Administration and his Doctorate
from The University of Maryland School of Social
Work & Community Planning. He is a past Director
of the Department of Social Work Services of The
Mount Sinai Hospital; past Executive Director of
Altro Health and Rehabilitation Services, NYC; a
recipient of the Ida M. Cannon Award of the Society
for Social Work Directors of the American Hospital
Association, and the managing editor of Social Work
in Health Care, and the co-editor of Social Work
in Mental Health. He is the author of numerous articles
on social work in professional journals.
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Psychosocial
Oncology & Hospice, Bereavement
 The
organizers are delighted and honored to have got the
support from Association
of Oncology Social Work to help design
the programme of this track and bring relevant experts
in planning for and participating in the Conference.
Sub-topics of this theme are identified and relevant
experts are also confirmed as follows:
| Ms Linda DIAZ |
Cognitive Behavioural Interventions |
| Ms Kim DAY |
Oncology Social Work with Family and Couples |
| Ms Yukie KURIHARA |
End of Life and Palliative Care |
| Professor Jim ZABORA |
Problem Solving Interventions and Evidenced
Based Practice |
| Associate Professor Brad ZEBRACK |
Survivorship |
Ms Linda GREEF
Ms BOYLE |
Designing an Oncology Social Work Service |
Associate Professor Karlynn
BRITZENHOFESZOC |
Research and Evaluation in Social Work Practice |
| Dr Penny WRIGHT |
Screening and Quality of Life Measures
in
Oncology Social Work |
| Ms Susan HEDLUND |
Program Development |
| Dr Lynn BEHAR |
Qualitative Research |
| Professor Peter Maramaldi |
Cancer and Ageing |
| Associate Professor Grace CHRIST |
End of Life and Palliative Care |
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Replacing
the Institution in the Community - Responding to
the Multiple Needs of People with Serious Mental
Illness
Mr Shane SOLOMON
Chief Executive, Hospital Authority, HKSAR, CHINA
Mr Shane Solomon is Chief Executive
of the Hospital Authority commencing in March 2006.
Before moving to Hong Kong, Mr Solomon held various
senior health management positions in Australia,
including:
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Under-Secretary for Health
and Executive Director of Metropolitan Health
and Aged Care Services in the Victorian Department
of Human Services.
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Group Chief Executive of Mercy
Health and Aged Care Services, a Catholic organization
operating public and private hospitals, aged care
services, and palliative care.
- Consultant to Australian and New Zealand Governments
on health policy and planning.
- Director of Policy and Programs in the Health
Department Victoria.
- Founding Director of the Health Issues Centre.
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