SMCM Studies in HK

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Press Release

2025.01.09 From Strength to Strength: Twelve Years of Collaboration between HKU and NGOs

2020.10.22 HKU-joint study finds strengths-based community interventions scored better than traditional approach in over 60% of the outcomes measuring recovery from mental illness

Newspaper


2022.06.27, Ming Pao Health — Arts Talent as a Form of Strength

2020.12.14, Ming Pao Mental Wellness– Finding Personal Strengths with Breaking-through Mental Wellness Support

Award

Professor Samson Tse
Congratulations on being awarded the Social Sciences Outstanding Research Output Award (Applied Research) 2018/19.

Awarded Article — Tsoi, E. W., Tse, S., Yu, C. H., Chan, S. K., Wan, E., Wong, S., & Liu, L. (2019). A nonrandomized controlled trial of strengths model case management in Hong Kong. Research on Social Work Practice, 29(5), 540-554.

Published Books

Strengths Model Application Research Training Institute. (2025). 優勢轉化生命 (Reprint). Under Production Publishing Ltd.

Strengths Model Application Research Training Institute. (2020). 優勢轉化生命. Under Production Publishing Ltd.

Book Chapter

Tse, S., Fung, E., Lo, W.K.I., Wong, S., Chan, S. K., Wan, E., Tsoi, W.S.E., & Yuen, W.Y.W. (2020). The strengths model in Hong Kong. In A. N. Mendenhall & M. M. Carney (Eds.). Rooted in strengths: Celebrating strengths perspective in social work (pp. 223-247). Kansas: University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare.

Research Articles (accessible here for private study only)

Tse, S., Ng, C., Yuen, W. et al., (2021, advance online publication). Process research: Compare and contrast the recovery-orientated strengths model of case management and usual community mental health care. BMC Psychiatry. 

Tse, S., Ng, S.M.C., Yuen, W.Y.W., Fukui, S., Goscha, R.J., & Lo, W.K.I. (2019). Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of strengths model case management (SMCM) with Chinese mental health service users in Hong Kong. BMJ Open, 1-10.

Tse, S., Tsoi, E. W., Hamilton, B., O’Hagan, M., Shepherd, G., Slade, M., … & Petrakis, M. (2016). Uses of strength-based interventions for people with serious mental illness: A critical review. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 62(3), 281-291.

Tse, S., Yu, C. H., Yuen, W. W. Y., Ng, C. S. M., Lo, I. W. K., Fukui, S., … & Chan, S. K. (2022). Randomised controlled trial evaluating the Strengths Model Case Management in Hong Kong. Research on Social Work Practice, 10497315221118550. 

Tsoi, E. W., Tse, S., Canda, E. R., Goscha, R. J., & Lo, I. W. (2021). The meaning of “strengths” for strengths-based mental health practice in Hong Kong Chinese culture: A qualitative exploratory study. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/prj0000476  

Tsoi W-SE, Tse S, Fukui S, et al. Study protocol for a controlled trial of Strengths Model Case Management in mental health services in Hong Kong. BMJ Open 2015;5:e008303. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015- 008303  

Tsoi, E. W., Tse, S., Yu, C. H., Chan, S. K., Wan, E., Wong, S., & Liu, L. (2019). A nonrandomized controlled trial of strengths model case management in Hong Kong. Research on Social Work Practice, 29(5), 540-554.