Social Work, Mental Health, and Public Policy in Diverse Contexts

Professor Sheying Chen received his Ph.D. & MSW from the University of California at Los Angeles (School of Public Policy & Social Research) and is currently a tenured professor of Public Administration/Social Policy at Pace University in New York. He is the founding director of the Centers for Social Work Study and Healthcare Administration at top-ranked Tsinghua University, where he served as a senior visiting scholar and senior research fellow of Cross-Strait Research and Sino-American Relations etc. He was Associate Provost for Academic Affairs (2010-2012) at Pace and previously Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor of Sociology at Indiana University (Southeast). Prior to IU, Dr. Chen was Professor and Dean at the University of Guam (UOG), overseeing the Colleges/Schools of: Business & Public Administration; Education; Health Sciences, Nursing & Social Work. He held tenure as Professor and Chair at the City University of New York (Staten Island) where he headed a large unit housing psychology, sociology, anthropology, social work, aging, disability studies, women's studies, and a number of interdisciplinary initiatives. He was a permanent faculty member of Sun Yat-sen University at Guangzhou, the "institution of highest learning" in southern China, from 1986 to 1992, where he served as a coordinator for graduate studies and a forerunner of China's rebuilt social work/policy education and research. A Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and one of the most influential scholars in Chinese social sciences, Professor Chen is the co-editor for the Springer Book Series International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, & Practice and International Perspectives on Aging.

Part I. Introduction.- Chapter 1. Social Work, Mental Health, and Public Policy in China: A Comparative-Historical and Theoretical-Practical Approach.- Chapter 2. Policy System, General Public Policy (GPP), and Comparative Social Policy: A Tale of the Economic State vs. Welfare State (and More).- Part II. Professionalization of Social Work as an Eclectic Discipline with Multidisciplinary Collaboration.- Chapter 3. From Weak Autonomy Embedding to Institutional Embedding in the Development of Social work Professionalization: A Case Study on a Pilot Project of a Child Welfare Institution.- Chapter 4. Effectiveness of Social Work Supervision: A Qualitative Case Study and a Framework of Structure-Relationship-Power Analysis.- Chapter 5. Promoting the Curriculum System Construction of Public Health Social Work in China: Western Experience and Domestic Exploration.- Chapter 6. Psychosomatic Medicine, Professional Social Work, and Evidence-Based Clinical Practice.- Chapter 7. Biomedical Education, Health Promotion, and Social Responsibility: International and Chinese Perspectives.- Part III.- Policy and Practice with Diverse/Special Populations.- Chapter 8. Ethnicity and Diversity: American Experience and Implications to Social Work.- Chapter 9. Spirituality without Religion: Social Work for Promoting Selfhood among Chinese Women in a Consumerist Society.- Chapter 10. A Dialectical Approach to Understanding Family Life: How Parents of LGB Children Experience "Coming Out" and Navigate Parent-Child Ties.- Chapter 11. Social Worker Intervention and the Support Mechanism for Mothers Having Lost Their Only Child in China.- Chapter 12. "Dislocation" and "Replacement": Delivery of Welfare Services for Children with Rare Diseases in Young Family from the Perspective of Parens Patriae.- Chapter 13. Ambivalence in Family Life During the Era of Falling Fertility and Population Aging: Theoretical and Clinical Considerations.- Chapter 14. China, Aging and Panopticism: A Foucauldian Analysis.