• Based on the “Handbook on Continuing Education (Revised November 2002), DCP has been reviewing 95 continuing educational activities and approving 87 of them in 2017 (by Aug 2017) for members’ ongoing enhancement of knowledge and skills.
• DCP, as a professional body of clinical psychologists, was preliminarily assessed to meet criteria for accreditation process of the Pilot Scheme of the Accredited Registers for Healthcare Professions proposed by the Government in June 2017.
• To secure a high standard of local clinical psychology training to serve the needs of the community, DCP started to recognize local clinical psychology training programmes (a degree conferred by a university in HKSAR) and to accredit local clinical placement settings since 2008. By August 2017, DCP had recognized 4 local clinical psychology training programmes and accredited 34 local clinical placement settings. Details are posted on DCP website.
• The membership criteria of DCP, HKPS has been updated and passed in the Extraordinary General Meeting in June 2017.

DCP was the forerunner in the provision of post-disaster psychological services in Hong Kong. We adopted a model of disaster management involving a multi-level, multi-agency intervention. This was done by the provision of prompt, focused and short-term "psychological first-aid" intervention targeted at multiple levels (individual, group and community) covering the victims, friends, family members, and disaster workers. This involved operating a community-based hotline service, conducting clinical screening, making referral to the appropriate service providers, running psychoeducational debriefings for those who were affected by a disaster, and delivering coordinated public education through the mass media. DCP had responded to the following important critical incidents in HK and abroad,

• Fire at Ngau Tau Kok (2016)
• Occupy Central Protest (2014)
• Lamma Island Ferry Collision (2012)
• Manila Hostage Incident (2010)
• Sichuan Earthquake (2008)
• Tsunamis in South Asia (2004)
• Garley' Building Fire Incident (1996)
• 'Pat Sin Leng' Hill Fire Incident (1996)

• A group of DCP members is preparing for the publication of a Chinese book on mindfulness by Wan Li Book Co. scheduled in late 2017.
• DCP members have been writing columns in newspaper (Sky Post) since August 2011 to provide psycho-education to the public for enhancing their psychological health. From April 2016 to April 2017, 44 articles were published.
• DCP representatives conducted psychoeducation talk and set up an exhibition booth in the Gerontech and Innovation Expo cum Summit organized by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Hong Kong Council of Social Service and the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation from 16th to 18th June 2017.
• DCP representatives conducted psychoeducation talk and set up an exhibition booth in the「健康管理全攻略講座」organized by EDU plus on 3rd June 2017.

In order to better understand the work stress of teachers in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union and Division of Clinical Psychology, Hong Kong Psychological Society jointly conducted a survey in 2018.

Acknowledgement

This survey was a joint study conducted by Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union and Division of Clinical Psychology, Hong Kong Psychological Society in 2018.

We would like to send our heartful thanks to the professional support and wisdom of the working group of Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union in this study.

We would also like to show our gratitude to the participants in this study.

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End users who make use of any data and information contained in this press release or take reference of this press release in written or oral presentations shall add the following citation and acknowledgement:

Citation:

Division of Clinical Psychology, Hong Kong Psychological Society & Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union. (2018, September 02). Work Stress of Teachers in Hong Kong [Press release]. Retrieved from https://hkps-dcp.org.hk/en/our-works-en.

Acknowledgement:

We acknowledge the use of data or information in the press release of Survey on Work Stress of Teachers in Hong Kong 2018 that provided by Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union and Division of Clinical Psychology, Hong Kong Psychological Society

Disclaimer

The data and information contained in this press release is provided as a reference for understanding the work stress of teachers in Hong Kong in 2018 and is not intended as a substitute for formal figures of diagnosis and medical advice on mental health of all teaching professionals in Hong Kong. Neither Division of Clinical Psychology, Hong Kong Psychological Society nor Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union shall be held liable for any improper or incorrect use of the data and information described in this press release.

• 香港教師工作壓力報告附錄
• Teacher Stress Survey Press Release
• 香港教師工作壓力報告

Remarks: The press release and survey results are only available in Chinese.

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