Kwok Lai Yuk Ching Sylvia

Biography

joined the University, I have been a school social worker, the in-charge of a children and youth centre and a family centre for a number of years. I joined the City University of Hong Kong as a lecturer in the Division of Social Studies in 1993, was transferred to the Department of Applied Social Studies as an Assistant Professor in 2008 and retitled as Associate Professor (B) in 2012. I was promoted to Associate Professor (A) in 2017. My mission is to improve the mental health of children and adolescents from family ecological and positive psychological perspectives. My research mainly focuses on the family ecological and positive psychological factors that are related to anxiety, depression and suicide of children and adolescents. I have published a number of papers related to adolescent suicidal ideation, parenting and marital satisfaction in international refereed journals with high impact factor, i.e., Child Abuse and Neglect, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, the ScientificWorldJournal, Nursing Research, Social Indicators Research, Suicide and Life-threatening Behavior, Journal of Child and Family Studies. I was also invited to give presentations in a number of conferences and symposiums. I have established the Positive Education Laboratory in 2015, aiming to promote positive education for the students, teachers, parents, and the community. The laboratory has collaborated with about 100 local schools to launch positive education.

Research Interest

families (parent-child, marital relationship)