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The association between parent-adolescent conflict and adolescent adjustment was examined in 429 Chinese adolescents using children's and parents' reports of parent-adolescent conflict. Results generally showed that parent-adolescent conflict based on ratings obtained from
different sources were significantly related to measures of psychological well-being (general psychiatric morbidity, life satisfaction, purpose in life, hopelessness, and self-esteem), school adjustment (perceived academic performance and school conduct) and problem behavior (smoking and psychotropic
drug abuse). The findings suggest that there is an intimate link between parent-adolescent conflict and the psychosocial adjustment, particularly the positive mental health, of Chinese adolescents.

Introduction -- What matter in a quality service-learning course: A study on faculty members' perception -- Faculty perceived impacts of the support from a centralized service-learning office -- Assessing Students in Academic Service-Learning: Faculty Experiences and Challenges -- How Hong Kong University Teachers Assess Students in Service-Learning: An Exploratory Study -- Promotion of teachers' readiness for service-learning through a professional development course -- Conceptual Framework for Key Process Ingredients Salient for Effective Service-Learning -- Validating an Instrument for Measuring the Developmental Outcomes for Students Arising from Service-Learning -- Investigating Service-Learning Impacts on University Students' Developmental Outcomes through a Control Group Study -- Service-Learning in the context of Business-Community-University Partnership: The Project WeCan in Hong Kong -- The impact of E-service-learning on Tui-na teaching in a Chinese Medicine course – from the perspectives of service-recipients and service-partner -- Action Research as a tool for faculty development in Service-Learning: The impact of action research on faculty's knowledge, skills and attitudes towards Service-Learning -- The Developmental Impacts of Interdisciplinary and Inter-institutional Service-Learning Collaboration -- Co-designing with people with special needs: An analysis from Contact Theory -- From industrial fermentation to life planning: The meaning of meaningful service in a biology service-learning course -- Assessing Community Impact after Service-Learning: A Conceptual Framework -- Promotion of Service-Learning in Hong Kong: Experiences Surrounding Collaboration among Higher Education Institutions.

The Chinese version of the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale (C-KMS) was administered to 381 parents of pre-school mentally handicapped children, along with other instruments assessing their stress, mental health, coping styles and caregiving patterns. The C-KMS was found to have high
internal consistency as a scale (alpha=.92) and tentative support for the validity of the scale was established: CKMS scores correlated significantly with the frequency of seeking help from spouse, and subjects who had to take care of the child alone at different times had significantly lower
C-KMS scores than subjects whose care-giving demands were shared by their spouse. The data also showed that the mean C-KMS scores in the present sample were lower than those reported in the literature and females reported a significantly lower level of perceived marital satisfaction than males.

The Chinese Coping Scale (CCS) was administered to 381 parents of preschool mentally handicapped children, along with other instruments assessing their stress, mental health, marital satisfaction and care-giving patterns. The CCS was found to be reliable and factor analysis with a two-factor
solution showed that two factors were abstracted from the scale, namely, Internal Coping and External Coping. It was found that the factors extracted could reliably be reproduced in two random sub-samples and the present results are highly similar to the previously reported data on the dimensionality
of the CCS. An examination of the distribution of responses to the CCS items revealed that a significant proportion of the parents seldom sought help from others when dealing with the stress arising from taking care of their handicapped children.

The Chinese Coping Scale (CCS) was constructed to assess the coping responses of Chinese people to stress in the marital, familial, interpersonal and occupational domains. This scale was administered to 1000 Chinese adults to examine the psychometric properties of the CCS and to test
the hypothesis that coping responses of Chinese people could be categorized into two types: reliance on self (i.e., internal locus of coping) and seeking help from others (i.e., external locus of coping). The reliability results indicated that the CCS demonstrated acceptable internal consistency
as a scale in different domains. Both exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis endorsed the adequacy of the two-factor model for coping responses within and across the four domains. Favorable evidence arising from the cross-validation procedure was also found. The implications
of the present data on the conceptualization and measurement of coping are discussed.

This book outlines the development, implementation and evaluation of a project entitled "P.A.T.H.S. to Adulthood: A Jockey Club Youth Enhancement Scheme," with P.A.T.H.S. denoting Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social programmes. This pioneer project was conducted in Hong Kong between 2005 and 2012 with more than 210,000 participants. Its goal was to help students meet various challenges in their path to adulthood, with a focus on their psychosocial competencies, developmental assets and the promotion of healthy peer relationships. The project was initiated by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust in collaboration with the Government's Social Welfare Department, Education Bureau and five universities in Hong Kong. Edited by the researchers of the project, Development and Evaluation of Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programs explores the nature of positive youth development (PYD), the application of PYD constructs to youth programs and implementation issues. Using multiple strategies, the book evaluates the overall effectiveness of the P.A.T.H.S. school-based program and reveals that stakeholders had positive perceptions of the project, its implementers and benefits. Students in the program showed better positive development and displayed lower levels of substance abuse and delinquent behavior than students in the control schools. The book also details lessons learned, emergent issues, future directions as well as insights into the development of positive youth development programs particularly in Chinese communities. Development and Evaluation of Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programs will appeal to all educators, administrators, psychologists, social workers and allied profeesionals looking to promote whole-person development in their students, especially those with in interest in education in China

The use of single-system research designs (SSRDs) has the potential to help social workers empirically evaluate the outcomes of practice. Descriptions of using SSRDs to evaluate social work practice are provided. SSRDs have the potential to help social workers in Chinese contexts to provide scientifically credible evidence to others that social services benefit the people.

Chinese secondary school students with low academic achievement (N=365) responded to instruments measuring their perceived paternal and maternal parenting styles and behavior, and conflict with the father and the mother. Compared with the norm based on students with relatively higher
academic attainment, parents in the present sample were perceived to be less responsive and less demanding and they had more conflict with their children. The data also showed gender differences in parenting characteristics, with fathers perceived to be relatively less responsive, less demanding,
less concerned, but more harsh in their parenting styles and having more conflict with their children.