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The Department of Counselling & Psychology hosted – “The 2nd Asia Pacific Rim International Counselling Conference”, at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. The collaborative institutions were Asia Pacific Rim Confederation of Counsellors, Asian Professional Counselling Association (H.K.), Australian Counselling Association. Over 400 delegages from 26 countries presented 115 research papers, seminars and workshops. There were around 200 participants attending the conference.

Eleven staff, two students in the Master of Social Sciences in Counselling Psychology (MSSCP) programme and one student in the Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) in Counselling & Psychology (BSSCP) programme participated – “The 3rd Asia Pacific Rim International Counselling and Psychology Conference”, held in Kaching, Malaysia. A total of 15 papers and 4 posters were presented in the conference. There were around 300 participants attending the conference.

The 4th APRICC is now moved to the largest country in Asia Pacific, China, which is jointly hosted by Wuhan University, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Asia Pacific Rim Confederation of Counsellors, Asian Professional Counselling Association, Australian Counselling Association and Psychological Counseling Association of Hubei Province. The Conference will be held at Wuhan University from November 6 - 8, 2015. We are delighted to welcome both research based papers and skill-based workshops which match our conference theme in "Tradition and Technology: Culture, Neuropsychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy International Conference".

Play therapy research has come a long way in supporting the value of play therapy for children and their families. A large and continually growing body of evidence shows that play therapy practice really works to help children overcome many challenges, and in diverse contexts. Research also holds the potential to further develop our understanding of why play therapy works, by studying its psychological, neurobiological and interpersonal processes. Advances in digital technology continue to offer new possibilities for play therapy intervention, and what they might bring.
Hong Kong Shue Yan University will hold a conference entitled ‘Advances in Play Therapy Research: an Intercultural Dialogue’ over the period of 26-27th July 2024 (with pre- and post-conference workshops to be held on 25th and 28th July). The aim of this conference is to connect both international and local practitioners and researchers of play therapy, and to share the fruits of their work with one another, and an interested audience of students, professionals and members of the public. It is hoped that the activities may create facilitate future collaboration between practitioners and researchers to continue to develop the field. Hopefully the conference provides an opportunity to find ways in which play therapy can be most relevant and effective in helping children and their families meet the challenges of contemporary society in Hong Kong, China and other places in the world. It is hoped that by creating dialogue between local and international experts around the challenges of culture in play therapy practice, this aim can be realized.
This event has been made possible by a grant from the Research Grants Committee in Hong Kong, under the Inter-Institutional Development Scheme.

The Department of Counselling & Psychology invited Professor Phil Jones to deliver a talk – “The Art Therapies and Childhood”. Sspeaker: Professor Phil Jones, University College London, Institute of Education has held the roles of Director of Research at the University of Leeds, UK and visiting chair to Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK and a Mellon Distinguished Scholar at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Human are bound rational that decision making involves a lot hidden premises and illogical mechanisms. In particular, moral decision involves a lot of dilemma and entails consequences in many aspects. Scholars and researchers have reported neural correlates of moral judgments. Some suggested perturbing the decision with brain stimulation techniques to particular regions of human brain. This workshop summarizes recent findings in the field and provides a demonstration to the experimental setup of tDCS commonly used in previous research studies on moral judgement. Research development in this area is blooming due to the emergency of artificial intelligence and raised dilemma of algorithmic morality. Therefore, inputs from interdisciplinary researchers are essential in providing insights and possible solutions to the problem.