Student Well-Being in Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong / Quality of Life in Asia Bd.7 (PDF)

Tak Yan Lee (MSW, PhD) is an Associate Professor and Assistant Head of the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong. His teaching and research interests are in positive youth development, social work practice teaching and learning and group work. His research covers adolescent prostitution, positive youth development, parent-child communication, parental control and resilience of children and the elderly. He has provided consultancy to statutory bodies and social service agencies on civic awareness, youth development indices, moral values and behavior, socio-cultural beliefs, gambling behavior and compensated dating. He has published 330 pieces of work, including 50 refereed journal papers, 27 co-edited manual/books, 125 manual/book chapters, 10 professional journal papers, 32 manuals/papers on teaching in social work, 27 contract and consulting research reports, 45 conference papers/presentations, 12 occasional research reports and 2 book reviews.



Daniel T.L. Shek (PhD, FHKPS, BBS, SBS, JP) is Chair Professor of Applied Social Sciences in the Department of Applied Social Sciences and Associate Vice President (Undergraduate Programme), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has taught social work students at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels for roughly thirty years. He was Dean of Students (1996-1998) and Dean of General Education (2006-2008) of New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was elected to be the Best Lecturer teaching the major courses in the Department of Social Work in 1995-1996. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Youth Studies and Applied Research on Quality of Life and he also serves in the editorial board of many international refereed journals including Social Indicators Research and Journal of Adolescent Health. Daniel T.L. Shek has to date published over 85 books, 154 book chapters and more than 500 articles in international refereed journals.



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“Tak Yan Lee’s book focuses on problems among young teenagers in Hong Kong, including relations with friends and family, bullying, online harassment, drug use, Internet addiction, sex behaviors and education, and definitions of success. ... This book will be of interest to various experts who want to plan positive youth development programs to decrease behavioral risks for adolescents. Social workers, psychologists and teachers will also find this book relevant to their work.” (Aymen Wahab, Ki Woong Cho, Muhammad Shakil Ahmad, Shabir Hyder, Sammar Abbas and Farzand Ali Jan, Applied Research Quality Life, Vol. 12, 2017)



“This book being a valuable tool for health care professionals, it is also hoped that it will inspire researchers to conduct large-scale, longitudinal studies that focus on the risk and protective factors for adolescent development from a holistic perspective. ... Student Well-Being in Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong: Theory, Intervention, and Research is an indispensable book for clinicians and researchers who work with adolescents.” (John A. Yozwiak, Applied Research Quality Life, Vol. 12, 2017)