Respondents with lower family adversity coping capabilities were less willing to attend family services or activities when they encounter family problems. They tend to prefer emotion and pressure management-related activities organized by social service agencies that are held online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n
Dr. Kelvin Wang Man-Ping, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU and Co-Investigator, Jockey Club SMART Family-Link Project\u00a0<\/strong>commented, \u201cThe pandemic has resulted in negative impacts on families. Practising high coping capabilities, sharing each other\u2019s burdens, offering mutual support to your family members and showing care for one another are key ingredients to maintaining harmony under the same rooftop.\u201d<\/p>\nProfessor Lam Tai-hing, Sir Robert Kotewall Professor in Public Health, Chair Professor of Community Medicine of School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0<\/strong>Principal Investigator of the Jockey Club SMART Family-Link Project<\/strong>\u00a0said, \u201cUnder the new normal, every sector must be savvy in Information Communications Technology (ICT), including social media and gaming, to facilitate better and quality communication between family members and friends as we ride out this pandemic.\u201d Professor Lam suggested that the pandemic, despite having put stress on family service centres by substantially reducing contact and their service with and for their beneficiaries, could be turned into an opportunity for more innovations in preventive interventions. \u201cAccording to our survey, it is deemed essential for frontline workers to consider more online programmes on emotion management and pressure management.\u201d<\/p>\nProfessor Lam added, \u201cOur Family Portal is free \u2013 other initiatives such as a social media-based photo-taking competition, titled \u2018SMART Appreciation Challenge\u2019, to encourage family members to express gratitude to one another, as well as our web-based online family quiz game which centres on the themes of pandemic prevention, exercising and eating habits, aim to assist members of the public to do away the stress from the external macro-environment.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 4-year Jockey Club SMART Family-Link Project assists 26 NGO\u2010operated Integrated Family Service Centres and Integrated Service Centres to promote family well\u2010being. The Project develops an online platform for capacity building, co\u2010creation and co\u2010learning for frontline staff; and organises public education and knowledge transfer programmes to strengthen family functioning. The Project encourages Hong Kongers to improve family ties with the use of ICT; it also promotes and had debuted 15 mobile apps for families to use together.<\/p>\n
Project Manager and registered social worker, Mr. Stone Tsang, from Hung Hom Integrated Family Services Centre (HHIFSC) of Hong Kong Children & Youth Services<\/strong>, who is also a partner of the Project, further added that the pandemic has put stress on marital relationships with added conflicts and arguments. As such, the centre has debuted a series of marital relationship enhancement workshops for married couples that leverage on the \u201cLanguage of Love\u201d and the understanding of our five senses so participants can acknowledge each other\u2019s virtues and get to know each other better. The workshops help couples relax and boost their intimacy via the app, \u201cSMART Emotion\u201d, which was designed by the Project team.<\/p>\nMr. Jeremy Li<\/strong>, who is also a\u00a0registered social worker and another representative of the HHIFSC<\/strong>, also says that intimate yoga moves can also help couples discover each other\u2019s potential and other virtues while taking on new ICT tools. The feedback from service users of these workshops echo with the survey results, which conclude that those with low coping capabilities against adversity tend to be less receptive towards in-person family services \u2013 that\u2019s why ICT tools can open another communication channel with one another. Through experiencing novel activities together and a taste of mobile applications, new, fond memories are created and it is believed that couples could then be more cooperative and resilient in face of challenges ahead.<\/p>\n\u2013 END \u2013<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>Survey Results on the Relationship between Coping Capability, Family Well-Being, and Innovative Family Services in Times of Adversity Over 53% of respondents reported high family coping capability [December 29, 2021, Hong Kong] The pandemic has continued to evolve and brought immense pressure to Hong Kongers under the \u201cnew normal\u201d. To better understand Hong Kongers\u2019 coping capabilities and their relationships with their family members, as well as how family services can cater to family members in need, the\u00a0Jockey Club SMART Family-Link Project (\u201cThe Project\u201d)\u00a0team from the\u00a0School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (\u201cHKU\u201d)\u00a0researched the \u201cRelationship between Adversity Coping Capability, Family Well-Being, and Innovative Family Services during the COVID-19 Outbreak\u201d. The results were announced at today\u2019s press conference. Initiated and funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, the Project aims to encourage members of the public, social welfare units, and Integrated Family Service Centres to apply more elements of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to promote family well-being. Hong Kong Jockey Club Executive Director, Charities and Community,\u00a0Mr Leong Cheung\u00a0said, \u201cThe Club has spared no effort in promoting the use of innovative technology, so as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[65,244],"tags":[],"event_topic":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-coverage","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsmartfamilylink.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsmartfamilylink.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsmartfamilylink.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsmartfamilylink.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsmartfamilylink.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/jcsmartfamilylink.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19053,"href":"https:\/\/jcsmartfamilylink.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/19053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsmartfamilylink.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsmartfamilylink.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsmartfamilylink.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsmartfamilylink.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"event_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsmartfamilylink.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_topic?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}