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"If They Talk to the Counsellor, at Least I Know They Have Some Way Out": Parents' Perceptions of School Counselling in Hong Kong
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Mark G. Harrison; Jacky King-Fai Cheung; Chloe Ka Yi Tam; Anna Susanne Cheng; Susanna Siu-Sze Yeung – Pastoral Care in Education, 2024
School counselling is a well-established means of supporting the mental health of children. Counsellors are most effective when they collaborate with parents, so it is important that parents have a good understanding of and access to school counselling services. Despite this, little is known about parents' perceptions of counselling in Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, School Counseling, Parent Attitudes
Chinese and Non-Chinese Parents' Perceptions of School Counselling in Hong Kong: A Mixed-Methods Cross-Cultural Comparison
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M. G. Harrison; Y. Wang; S. S. Yeung; R. B. King – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
Little is known about parents' perceptions of school counselling in Hong Kong. We adopted an explanatory sequential mixed methods design to investigate Chinese and non-Chinese parents' perceptions. In phase one, 287 parents in Hong Kong were surveyed. Results suggested that Chinese parents had a poorer understanding of counsellors' roles, more…
Descriptors: School Counseling, Parent Attitudes, Parents, Racial Differences
Myth of the Inferior Status of Vocational Education: The Case of Hong Kong
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Yau, Thomas Siu Ho; Chung, Ming Lun; Li, Ho Ching; Chun, Derek Wai Sun – Chinese Education & Society, 2018
In this article, factors contributing to the poor perceptions and inferior status of vocational education in Hong Kong are discussed. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is employed as the methodology in examining the discursive construction of vocational education in the policy context. A total of five policy documents published between 1970 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Attitudes, Status
How Parents Perceive and Feel about Participation in Community Activities: The Comparison between Parents of Preschoolers with and without Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Lam, Shui-Fong; Wong, Bernard P.H.; Leung, Doris; Ho, Daphne; Au-Yeung, Peter – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
The present study compared how parents of preschoolers with and without Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) perceived and felt about participation in community activities. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 380 Hong Kong parents of preschoolers with ASD and 214 Hong Kong parents of preschoolers without ASD. The two groups were not different in…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Autism, Foreign Countries, Parents