Project Introduction

Between 2006 and 2014, Dr. FUNG Lai Chu, Annis started the Project on Children and Adolescents at Risk Education (Project C.A.R.E.)* that adopted the two-factor model of aggression in understanding bullying and developing evidence-based interventions. It inspired teachers, social workers, children, and children's primary caregivers with a series of lectures, consultations, and group counselling services within a Social-Ecological Model. At the same time, promotional activities and press conferences were organised for the public to prevent school bullying among children and adolescents with the greatest effectiveness.

Since 2006 till 2011, this project had serviced 77 primary and secondary schools and providing group counselling for each subtype of aggressors and victims.

  • Child group intervention aimed to prevent and reduce children's impulsive emotions, verbal aggression and physical aggression, and to enhance their self-expression and emotional management by reconstructing their cognition.
  • Parent group intervention aimed to rebuild a healthy parent-child relationship by improving parents' communication and parenting skills.
  • Parent-child conjoint group intervention also aimed to improve parents' communication and parenting skills. However, more importantly, the purpose of this intervention was to improve the parent-child relationship and facilitate interaction and communication between parents and children.

In addition to providing therapeutic group intervention for students with high-risk in aggression, this project provided lectures for all students in school to enhance their understandings of aggressors, victims and witnessers in school bullying. Concurrently students learnt how to deal with interpersonal conflict and how to improve their communication skills.

Workshops and professional consultation were provided for teachers and school social workers to enhance their strategies for handling school bullying at each school.

In addition to the parent group intervention, this project provided parents with workshops to help them reflect on their parenting styles and parent-child relationships. It helped them enhance their parenting efficacy and build healthy parent-child relationships.

*To advocate for positive information and reduce the public's negative impression, this project used to adopt  "Project C. A. R. E." as the name to promote community activities.

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