Stigmatizing attitudes towards individuals with mental illness in Hong Kong: Implications for their recovery

Factor structure of essential social skills to be salespersons in retail market: implications for psychiatric rehabilitation

“…The total percentage of variance being explained by the five factors is fairly high (65.1%). This observation is substantiated by comparing results of similar studies based on (EFA) (Gerber & Prince, 1999;Jette & Portney, 2003;Tsang, Tam, Chan, & Cheung, 2003) which explained less than 55% of the total variance.…”

Operationalization of the SAMHSA model of recovery: a quality of life perspective

“…Peer support (i.e., support from peers with mental illness) was weakly associated with recovery. Community-wide discrimination in Hong Kong society and the lack of funded self-help groups have dissuaded subjects from disclosing their identity, attending social activities, making supportive friendships, or participating in mutual-help activities [32,33]. Social interactions among peers with mental disorders in daily life were rare and perhaps restricted to those who were also undergoing rehabilitation treatment.…”

The Importance of Parent‐to‐Parent Support among Families of Children with Autism in the People’s Republic of China

“…However, once they were home they feared (and often it was the case) that there was little or no opportunity for the face-to-face interaction that they found so enjoyable and useful. In China, the lack of opportunity for support from other parents when in one's home area appears to be connected directly to issues of stigma towards individuals with disabilities (Fong & Hung, 2002;Tsang et al, 2003). Many of the families indicated that they had heard of other families in their area with children with autism, but those families had never admitted this and did not attend or seek any specialised services.…”

“…Previous research has found negative attitudes and feelings of shame regarding epilepsy (Fong & Hung, 2002) and mental illness (Tsang, Tam, Chan, & Cheung, 2003;Yang & Pearson, 2002). Families often feel shame about having a child with a disability and many people still believe that disabilities are the result of something the parents (often the mother) have done wrong (Holroyd, 2003).…”