Conference Programme
Day 3 - 25/4/2022 (Mon)
(All in HKT time zone: UTC+8 hours)
All programmes conducted in English unless otherwise specified.
09:30-11:15
Symposium
Youth-led research in youth mental health in Hong Kong (1): the influences of personal and population-level stressors and the identification of at-risk youths
Session Chair: Dr. HUI Lai Ming, Christy (The University of Hong Kong)
Speakers
Impact of population-level stressors on youth mental health during co-occurring social unrest and COVID-19 in Hong Kong in 2020
Dr Stephanie WONG (The University of Hong Kong)
Prevalence of suicidal behaviours in the local youth population and the roles of suicide-related rumination, family, and population-level stressors
Mr Charlie IP (The University of Hong Kong) and
Dr Stephanie WONG (The University of Hong Kong)
Shattered assumptions about the world: their associated factors and impacts on mental health in young people
Ms Terry LAU (The University of Hong Kong)
Sources of stress and coping methods by young people in Hong Kong: data from epidemiological and community youth samples
Ms Melody SO (The University of Hong Kong)
The utility of a single-item measure of subjective stress in identifying young people at greater mental health risks
Dr Stephanie WONG (The University of Hong Kong)
Application of the CART model to data from a novel youth hubs service in identifying youths at greater mental health risks
Ms Catherine FANG (The University of Hong Kong)
Synopsis
Great attention has been placed on the mental health of young people in Hong Kong especially in recent years. Under the limitation of scarce resources and ongoing population-level stressors, such as COVID-19, the development of user-friendly yet valid and agile online survey tools for timely assessment of mental states with immediate personalised feedback becomes ever more important. Data collected through such a tool from young people in the general public during a period of ongoing social unrest and COVID-19 in 2019-2020 are first presented in this session.
Using data from an ongoing large-scale epidemiological youth study and from the LevelMind@JC project, the team further presents findings on the prevalence of suicidal behaviours in the local youth population and the roles of suicide-related rumination and external factors, including family functioning and external stressors. Preliminary findings showing the role of “assumptions about the world” in youth mental health and its associated factors, as well as the various stressors and coping strategies adopted by young people today, will also be discussed. The validity and utility of a simple single-item measure of subjective stress – the SLS-1 – as an early indicator of current and prospective mental health states will be shared in the session. The symposium will conclude with a sharing of the use of the Classification and regression trees (CART) as a potential method for identifying youths at greater mental health risk that has potential for large-scale implementation in community and population settings.
13:45-15:15
Global Young Speaker Session
Survivors & Change Makers: Young People's Roles in Youth Mental Wellness
Session Chair: Mr Toto CHEUNG (The University of Hong Kong)
Speakers
Mr Cassandra LOVELOCK (London School of Economics & Political Science)
Mr Shuranjeet SINGH (University of Oxford; Taraki)
Mr Ivan CHAN (Hong Kong Playground Association)
Mr Toto CHEUNG (The University of Hong Kong)
Synopsis
This is a session designed by young people for young people (and everyone who is willing to learn from them) about the strengths of emerging adults who have different lived experience with mental health challenges. Young people at various stages of personal development and recovery have a chance to share their experience and work in this session: from help-seeker and service receiver, to providing service for fellow young people, and supporting youth participation in creating knowledge of youth mental health. The aim is to promote ideas exchange and wider recognition of young people's - including and particularly those with lived experience of mental ill-health - core roles in brining positive change in youth mental wellness.
15:30-17:15
Symposium
University Mental Health
Session Chairs: Dr Arthur MAK (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and
Dr Linda YEUNG (The University of Hong Kong)
Speakers
ADHD Comorbidity Structure and Impairment: Results of the WHO World Mental Health Surveys International College Student Project (WMH-ICS)
Dr Arthur MAK (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Opportunities and challenges to improve the mental health of Chilean university students. The #enlaUvamosjuntxs initiative
Ms Scarlett MACGINTY (King’s College London)
Mental health and help-seeking patterns of HKU undergraduates during COVID-19
Ms Minyi SUM (The University of Hong Kong)
Developing frameworks for whole of university approaches to mental health
Ms Vivienne BROWNE (Orygen, Australia)
Synopsis
For many emerging adults, college life is a key transitional stage into adulthood. Worsening of mental health among university student, however, is a worrying trend observed in Hong Kong and many other places in the world. In this symposium, we will look at the situation of university mental health, including a focus on specific condition (ADHD) and institute (HKU); lessons learned from a Chilean initiative; and the national university mental health framework development in Australia and in the Universitas 21 (U21) global network.