Youth Hong Kong - a quarterly journal from the hongkong federation of youth groups

September 2018 Vol.10 No.3
Aware of Wellness

OVERVIEW
Maintaining wellness:
Coping skills for staying balanced today include self-awareness, self-expression and knowing who to turn to for help. p.4

Briefing
Emotional health:
Precarious mental health in many city students confirmed by repeated surveys in Hong Kong and abroad. p.6

Interview
Feeling the mind-body link:
Connections between psychological state and physical wellbeing exist and can boost motivation.
Stanley Hui CUHK p.9

Seeking advice:
Professional help for troubled minds sees surge in demand in a city short of child psychiatrists.
May Lam Alpha Clinic p.12

Perspectives
A parent’s role:
Shared responsibility is a key for building strong foundations to support wellness.
Lakshmi Jacota p.15

Mindfulness debate:
Reservations about effectiveness and hype in booming industry
Elaine Morgan p.16

Managing special needs:
A teacher’s perspective on practice
Sarah O’Connor p.17

YOUTH SPEAK
Threats to wellness:
Secondary students from Student Wellness Action Network say how they feel
SWAN p.18

Learning to cope:
Teenager gains experience and self-knowledge
Annie p.21

Finding balance:
Peer counsellors reflect on themselves and their classmates
Ting, Kiu, Sherman p.23

SPECIAL
Steps to Wellness:
HKFG Wellness mind Centre services, projects and programmes p.24

Posting problems:
Anguished youth write letters to anonymous adviser in HKFYG Mobile Wellness Truck p.28

Features
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Gravitational waves:
From science fiction to hard science: studying the universe
Chan Pok-fung p.30

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Smart gardens:
City gardening for beginners, indoors and outdoors with novelty technology
Mok Yee-ling p.32

CITY SPACE
Racing spirit:
Running with an objective: how having company adds motivation in Hong Kong and overseas
Ada Chau p.34

SOCIETY & CULTURE
E-cigarette smoking:
Trends and risks in new, unregulated habit
HKFYG Wellness Mind Centre p.36

SOCIETY & CULTURE
Future reading:
The gradual but incomplete replacement of paper by digital reading matter
Amy Law p.38

HKFYG
Books:
Eleven new titles for 2018 including a best seller p.40

YB21:
Street level startup retail outlet in Central p.43

New
Leadership Institute programmes p.46

Think tank reports:
Youth IDEAS on liberal studies, post-retirement age jobs and having children p.48
OVERVIEW
Maintaining wellness:
Coping skills for staying balanced today include self-awareness, self-expression and knowing who to turn to for help. p.4
Briefing
Emotional health:
Precarious mental health in many city students confirmed by repeated surveys in Hong Kong and abroad. p.6
Interview
Feeling the mind-body link:
Connections between psychological state and physical wellbeing exist and can boost motivation.
Stanley Hui CUHK p.9

Seeking advice:
Professional help for troubled minds sees surge in demand in a city short of child psychiatrists.
May Lam Alpha Clinic p.12
Perspectives
A parent’s role:
Shared responsibility is a key for building strong foundations to support wellness.
Lakshmi Jacota p.15

Mindfulness debate:
Reservations about effectiveness and hype in booming industry
Elaine Morgan p.16

Managing special needs:
A teacher’s perspective on practice
Sarah O’Connor p.17
YOUTH SPEAK
Threats to wellness:
Secondary students from Student Wellness Action Network say how they feel
SWAN p.18

Learning to cope:
Teenager gains experience and self-knowledge
Annie p.21

Finding balance:
Peer counsellors reflect on themselves and their classmates
Ting, Kiu, Sherman p.23
SPECIAL
Steps to Wellness:
HKFG Wellness mind Centre services, projects and programmes p.24

Posting problems:
Anguished youth write letters to anonymous adviser in HKFYG Mobile Wellness Truck p.28
Features
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Gravitational waves:
From science fiction to hard science: studying the universe
Chan Pok-fung p.30

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Smart gardens:
City gardening for beginners, indoors and outdoors with novelty technology
Mok Yee-ling p.32

CITY SPACE
Racing spirit:
Running with an objective: how having company adds motivation in Hong Kong and overseas
Ada Chau p.34

SOCIETY & CULTURE
E-cigarette smoking:
Trends and risks in new, unregulated habit
HKFYG Wellness Mind Centre p.36

SOCIETY & CULTURE
Future reading:
The gradual but incomplete replacement of paper by digital reading matter
Amy Law p.38
HKFYG
Books:
Eleven new titles for 2018 including a best seller p.40

YB21:
Street level startup retail outlet in Central p.43

New
Leadership Institute programmes p.46

Think tank reports:
Youth IDEAS on liberal studies, post-retirement age jobs and having children p.48