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Ma, Joyce
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Since the 1990s, Professor Joyce Lai-Chong Ma has devoted her academic and professional life to researching, implementing, and nurturing family therapy to thrive in Hong Kong and in other Chinese societies. Professor Ma’s specialties and research interests lie in the areas of family therapy and family mental health, and she is notable for her expertise in treating eating disorders and with a later focus on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Her keen and determined passion in family therapy has enabled her to become one of the renowned family therapists in China.
Career
Ma is a professor in the Department of Social Work of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), the director of the Family and Group Practice Research Centre of the Department of Social Work, CUHK, and also the founder of the Family Treatment Center in Nanshan Hospital in Shenzhen.
Professor Ma is a registered social worker and she received her Ph.D. in social work at the...
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Ma, J. L. C., Lai, K. Y. C., & Xia, L. L. (2017). Treatment efficacy of multiple family therapy for Chinese families of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Family Process, 57(2), 399–414. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12297.
Ma, J. L. C. (2015). The father’s roles in the recovery of young Chinese suffering from eating disorders in two Chinese cities, Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Journal of Family Therapy, 37(1), 61–78. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12037.
Ma, J. L. C. (2011). Anorexia nervosa and family therapy in a Chinese context. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.
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Lo, J.W.K. (2019). Ma, Joyce. In: Lebow, J.L., Chambers, A.L., Breunlin, D.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_1101
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