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Hakka cultural roots: metalinguistic awareness and practice principles
- Author:
- LEUNG Carol A.
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 58(6), 2015, pp.802-812.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Through examining the Hakka cultural heritage, the author describes a specific Chinese ethnic group – ‘global Hakka’ – based on its unique Hakka multifaceted languages. These ‘guest’ immigrants integrate their culture and languages into the host province in China or host country outside of China. They seek cultural permanency through active participation in learning a new language or another Chinese dialect for cultural adjustment. Through learning from these clients’ strong adjustment abilities, social workers can practice metalinguistic awareness skills with the application of 10 principles by means of self-evaluation and reflection around their clients’ linguistic learning motivation. (Publisher abstract)
Laughter yoga as a social work intervention
- Authors:
- CHEUNG Monit, LEUNG Carol A.
- Journal article citation:
- Smith College Studies in Social Work, 90(4), 2020, pp.288-301.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Using simulated laughter, clients follow laughing patterns without using memory recalls or associating with any thinking or feeling. This practice update describes laughter yoga as a social work intervention. It demonstrates the functions, principles, and procedures of laughter yoga to help clients alleviate stress and at the same time enable social workers to practice with the clients as a self-care exercise during an emotionally intensive session. A composite case is used to demonstrate how the social worker used laughter yoga as an exercise with Mrs. X, a patient with cancer. The outcomes, in this case, are used to show the method and its procedures rather than evaluating efficacy. It suggests that social workers may benefit from utilizing laughter yoga as an intervention. Future research should address its effectiveness by measuring beta-endorphin increases for relaxation and improvement in social bonding. (Edited publisher abstract)
Advocacy journey promoting child sexual abuse prevention in Hong Kong
- Authors:
- CHEUNG Monit, LEUNG Carol A., SUK-CHING LIU Elaine
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 26(8), 2017, pp.957-969.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In a country without a mandatory child abuse reporting system, advocacy for child welfare law can be a tedious and difficult process. This article documents a 10-year advocacy journey based on the capacity-building concept in social sustainability theory which aims to: raise public awareness of child sexual abuse, provide an idea for branding an inquiry column, and connect advocacy efforts to law reforms. Over the past decade in Hong Kong, a total of 336 public inquiries were anonymously sent to Wu Miu Column and published in three local major newspapers. Among these inquiries, 131 inquiries involved child sexual abuse that the “affected individuals” were molested in school or at home and knew the abusers but did not report their cases to child protection services. Inquirers reported more male than female abusers. Proportionally and significantly, female abusers tended to abuse younger children, compared to male abusers who tended to abuse older children. Many abusers were minors who abused younger children, which explains people’s reluctance to report the abuse to child protection services. The discovery of this underage phenomenon motivated child advocates to challenge the common law presumption that a boy under the age of 14 is incapable of sexual intercourse. Social workers in this advocacy journey must sustain continuous efforts to prevent youth from becoming future perpetrators. (Publisher abstract)