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Project History
2006-2009 The Project C.A.R.E., funded by the Quality Education Fund (QEF), was carried out by City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Christian Service - Integrated Children & Youth Service during its first three years. The purpose of this project was to create a set of effective intervention strategies to prevent school bullying in local schools.
In the beginning, the project aimed to serve secondary school students (secondary 1-3): reactive aggressors and pure victims were our targets between 2006 and 2007, proactive aggressors and aggressive victims were our targets from 2007 to 2008, and afterwards, our focus between 2008 and 2009 was on intervening the two subtypes of aggressors particularly. During the first three years, our project served 30 secondary schools. 2009-2011 In 2009, the project was again funded by the QEF. The range of the study was expanded from examining school bullying in secondary schools to looking at it in primary schools. During these two years, the project focused on intervening with the two subtypes of aggressors in primary schools (primary/elementary 4-6). The parents of primary school children play a significant role in their mental and physical development. Therefore, the project designed another two types of therapeutic group interventions for parents and primary school children in particular: a parent group intervention and a parent-child conjoint group intervention. After completing Project C.A.R.E., our research team has continuously developed more innovative interventions for reducing schoolchildren with reactive and proactive aggression.
2014-2017: Traditional Chinese Martial Arts and its Ethics Intervention In 2014, the project was funded by the University Grants Committee with HKD 410,000. The service target is from primary two to five at elementary schools targeting for the high-risk schoolchildren with proactive aggressors and reactive aggression. The participants joined a 10-session intervention not only focuses on Chinese martial skills but also martial ethics and benevolence, which is the core value of martial arts and self-restraint, could directly increase their moral standard and self-control competency, then reduce the reactive and proactive aggression as a result. For more details, please explore The C.A.R.E. Lab - Physio-Moral Approach 2015-2018: Omega-3 Supplementation and Brain Functioning Enhancement In 2015, the project was awarded a General Research Fund of approximately HKD 760,000 from University Grants Committee. The Omega-3 supplementation taking of 6-month Omega-3 Treatment targets for 8 to 18 years-old children and adolescents at local primary and secondary schools. It examines the efficacy of omega-3 supplementation in reducing reactive and proactive aggression as well as the biological mechanism behind the above improvement. For more details, please explore The C.A.R.E. Lab - Neurobiological Approach 2018-2020: Social Information Processing Model Based Group Storytelling This project collaborated with Hans Andersen Club. In 2018, this project received a General Research Fund with HKD 710,000 from the University Grants Committee. This project pioneered to use the Social Information Processing (SIP) model as a treatment approach to increase empathy competency and social skills as well as reduce reactive and proactive aggression among the high-risk schoolchildren from Primary One to Four in elementary schools. For more details, please explore The C.A.R.E. Lab - Social Information Processing Approach Awards Project C.A.R.E. and the aforementioned projects have served over 120 primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong. The work has won several local and international awards based on its remarkable achievements.
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