Society Work of the Post-Economic State and Chinese-Style Social Work

Professor Sheying Chen received his Ph.D. & MSW from the University of California at Los Angeles and is currently a tenured professor of Public Administration/Social & Health 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 in Asia, where he also served as a senior research fellow of Social Governance, Cross-Strait and Sino-American Relations etc. He was Associate Provost for Academic Affairs (2010-2012) at Pace and previously Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Indiana University (Southeast). Prior to IU, Dr. Chen was Professor and Dean at the University of Guam (UOG), overseeing the Colleges 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, etc. He was a permanent faculty member of Sun Yat-sen University at Guangzhou 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 (2017) and one of the most influential scholars in Chinese social sciences, Professor Chen is the co-EIC for Springer Book Series of International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, & Practice and International Perspectives on Aging.

• Chapter 1. Social Policy of the Post-Economic State and Chinese-Style Social Work: A New Era of Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones.- Part I. SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION AND EDUCATION.- Chapter 2. The Professionalization of Social Work in China: A State-Led Journey from Conceptualization to Institutionalization.- Chapter 3. Acting with Empathy: A Grounded Theory Study on the Self-Care Pathways of Social Work Interns.- Chapter 4. From Helping to Serving: Facilitating Reciprocal Learning in a U.S.-China Social Work Partnership.- Part II. AGING IN A NEW AGE.- Chapter 5. Support and social welfare for the solidary elders in rural China.- Chapter 6. Empowering Older Adults through Photovoice: Enhancing Digital Competence, Self-Efficacy, and Community Advocacy.- Chapter 7. Internet Usage and Depressive Symptoms among Chinese Older Adults and Urban-Rural Difference: Serial Mediation Roles of Social Networks and Social Adaptation.- Part III. CHILD WELFARE.- Chapter 8. Social Organizations Multi-Dimensional Intervention in Rural Vulnerable Children Services: A Case Study of Qingshen County, Sichuan Province, China.- Chapter 9. The Dilemma of Supervision and Rehabilitation for Juvenile Offenders and Its Mitigation Pathways.- Chapter 10. Assessment of Mental Health Status and Effectiveness of Social Work Services for Rural Disadvantaged Children.- Part IV. HEALTH SERVICES.- Chapter 11. The Unseen Journey: Paediatric Hospitalisation, Separation and the Destabilisation of Attachment from the Primary Caregivers Perspective.- Chapter 12. Social Organizations and Multi-stakeholder Collaborative Governance: A Case Study on County-Level HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Practices.- Chapter 13. Quantitative Analysis of Guangdong Province's Public Health Emergency Management Policies.