CST Training in Hong Kong

Training events

Upcoming dates

27th June 2024

18th & 21st October 2023: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course听- as part of the research study 鈥淓ffectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Technology-enriched Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (teleCST) and Carer Support鈥� led by Dr. Gloria Wong, The University of Hong Kong
15th & 22nd August 2023:听Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course - delivered by Christian Family Service Centre in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong
5th & 10th June 2023: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course听- as part of the research study 鈥淓ffectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Technology-enriched Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (teleCST) and Carer Support鈥� led by Dr. Gloria Wong, The University of Hong Kong
25th March & 1st April 2023: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course - as part of the research study 鈥淓ffectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Technology-enriched Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (teleCST) and Carer Support鈥� led by Dr. Gloria Wong, The University of Hong Kong
11th & 18th February 2023: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course - as part of the research study 鈥淓ffectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Technology-enriched Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (teleCST) and Carer Support鈥� led by Dr. Gloria Wong, The University of Hong Kong
20th & 21st December 22: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course - delivered by Christian Family Service Centre in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong
5th & 6th October 22: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course - delivered by Christian Family Service Centre in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong
11th & 21st January 2022*: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course (Winter 2021) 鈥� Class 1 (virtual class)
13th & 21st January 2022*: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course (Winter 2021) 鈥� Class 2 (virtual class)
11th January 2022*: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course (Winter 2021) 鈥� Class 3
13th January 2022*: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course (Winter 2021) 鈥� Class 4
*The class is partly supported by the donation from Mr. Tin Hing-Sin Sam for the promotion of non-pharmacological interventions for people with dementia and their caregivers in community.听
29th December 2021: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course for Yan Chai Hospital Social Services Department 鈥� Class 2听11th November 2021: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course - delivered by Christian Family Service Centre in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong
8th October 2021: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course for Yan Chai Hospital Social Services Department 鈥� Class 1
24th August 2021: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course - delivered by Christian Family Service Centre in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong
13th & 18th August 2021: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course (Summer 2021) 鈥� Class 2, delivered online; partly supported by the donation from Mr. Tin Hing-Sin Sam for the promotion of non-pharmacological interventions for people with dementia and their caregivers in community
13th August 2021: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course (Summer 2021) 鈥� Class 1; partly supported by the donation from Mr. Tin Hing-Sin Sam for the promotion of non-pharmacological interventions for people with dementia and their caregivers in community
April 2021: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course - as part of 鈥淪OWK6337 Evidence-based Interventions and Care for People with Dementia鈥� course in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong
21st March 2021: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course for Sik Sik Yuen - delivered by Christian Family Service Centre in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong
28th January 2021: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course - delivered online by Christian Family Service Centre in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong
October 2020- April 2021: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course - as part of "SHSC4035 Complex Case Adult" & "SHSC5036 Research in Human Development and Communication Disorders" course of Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
11th and 13th December 2019: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course - delivered by Christian Family Service Centre in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong
6th December 2019: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course for Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Welfare Council Ltd
14th and 21st October 2019: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course - delivered by Christian Family Service Centre in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong
21st September 2019: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course for Methodist Centre
24th August 2019: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course (Summer 2019) 鈥� Class 3
17th August 2019: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course (Summer 2019) 鈥� Class 2
27th July 2019: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course (Summer 2019) 鈥� Class 1
8th and 9th May 2019: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course - delivered by Christian Family Service Centre in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong
4th April 2019: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course - as part of the research study 鈥淎 Culturally Appropriate Multimodal Non-pharmacological Intervention for Chinese People with Mild-to-Moderate Dementia鈥� led by Dr. Gloria Wong, The University of Hong Kong
14th January 2019: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course for Social Welfare Bureau, Macau SAR Government听
5th and 14th December 2018: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course for Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, Hong Kong听
28th October 2018: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course for Macau Occupational Therapists Association
4th October 2018: Certified CST-HK Practitioner Training Course for Social Welfare Bureau, Macau SAR Government

Trainers

Dr Gloria Wong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Gloria is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Director of Training of the CST-HK programme. She co-leads a 果冻影院-HKU partnership in innovations in non-pharmacological interventions for dementia with Professor Aimee Spector. She currently works with CST Trainers in Hong Kong accredited by the International CST Centre to provide Certified CST Practitioners training for professionals in Hong Kong and nearby regions.听

Enquiries for CST-HK training can be made to听Emily Leung at emleung@hku.hk.

Vivien CHAN Sze Ming, Christian Family Service Centre, Hong Kong 听

Vivien is a Registered Social Worker in Hong Kong working on elderly care and specialized dementia care services at Christian Family Service Centre - Mind Delight Memory & Cognitive Training Centre. 听 She provides non-pharmacological interventions for people with dementia as well as helping their families and carers. She is a Certified CST-HK trainer providing CST Practitioners training to the infielders.

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Brian CHUNG, Hong Kong Young Women鈥檚 Christian Association, Hong Kong听听听

Brian is a physiotherapist who is serving older adults in Long Term Care Facilities at the Hong Kong Young Women鈥檚 Christian Association in Hong Kong. 听He is one of the CST Trainers in Hong Kong accredited by the International CST Centre, and currently working with Dr. Gloria Wong and her colleagues at the University of Hong Kong to provide CST training in Hong Kong.

贰尘补颈濒:听产谤颈补苍肠丑耻苍驳蔼测飞肠补.辞谤驳.丑办听

HON听Yuk Lan, Kwai Chung Hospital, Hong Kong听听听

Yuk Lan is a Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nurse of the Department of Psychogeriatric Team at Kwai Chung Hospital. Currently, she strives to promote CST in Hong Kong by actively running CST groups in the community. Also, her team has special interest to develop and promote evidence-based non-pharmacological intervention for elderly with cognitive impairment.听

贰尘补颈濒:听honyuklan@yahoo.com.hk

Dr Flora KO, Former Department Manager of the Occupational Therapy Department, North District Hospital, Hong Kong 听听

Flora is an occupational therapist with extensive experience in working with people with mental health problems and dementia. 听She is a certified wellness and life coach, clinical hypnotherapist, cognitive behavioural therapist and professional in healthcare quality. 听She is also a Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Health Service Executives and the Australasian College of Health Service Management. 听Besides management and clinical services, she also teaches occupational therapy and health care management subjects for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and conducts executive training for health care professionals. 听She is a CST trainer and is currently working with the Hong Kong University Sau Po Centre on Ageing and the Department of Social Work and Social Administration in providing Certified CST Practitioner鈥檚 Training for professionals in Hong Kong and the nearby regions.听

贰尘补颈濒:听fk_ko@alumni.cuhk.net

Becky LAM听Pik Ying, Hong Kong Young Women鈥檚 Christian Association, Hong Kong

Becky is a social worker at the district elderly community center of Hong Kong Young Women鈥檚 Christian Association. She is mainly working with people with dementia in the community, including running CST groups and having support to the caregivers. As one of the Certified CST Trainers in Hong Kong, she currently works with Dr. Gloria Wong and her team at the University of Hong Kong to provide Certified CST Practitioners training locally.

贰尘补颈濒:听辫颈办测颈苍驳蔼测飞肠补.辞谤驳.丑办听

Stephenie MAN, Christian Family Service Centre, Hong Kong 听听

Stephenie is a registered Occupational Therapist currently working in Mind Delight memory and cognitive training centre under Christian Family Service Centre, mainly serving people with dementia. She supports the concept of ageing in place and dedicates herself in community and home-based elderly service. She obtained a master degree specialized in health service management in Australia and had delivered various education programme on dementia care / home safety to elderly, caregiver and the public. Recently she involved in the development of Mind Delight CST game set and became one of the instructors of certified CST practitioner course in Hong Kong.

贰尘补颈濒:听蝉迟别辫丑别苍颈别冲尘补苍蔼肠蹿蝉肠.辞谤驳.丑办听

Clifton SO, North District Hospital, Hong Kong

Clifton is Occupational Therapist I in Occupational Therapy Department of North District Hospital in Hong Kong. He has wide spectrum of clinical experience in providing occupational therapy for patients with orthopaedics, general medicine and mental health problems. Clifton actively participates in development of treatment Programmes for older people with Major Neurocognitive Disorder. He currently works with CST Trainers in Hong Kong accredited by the International CST Centre to provide Certified CST Practitioners training for professionals in Hong Kong and nearby regions.

贰尘补颈濒:听Clifton_so@hotmail.com

Ben WONG, North District Hospital, Hong Kong

Ben is an occupational therapist working in North District Hospital of Hospital Authority. He works in psychogeriatric field and provides service for elders with psychiatric condition, including dementia. He is actively running CST group as one of the non-pharmacological interventions. He听currently works with CST trainers in Hong Kong accredited by the International CST Centre to provide Certified CST Practitioners training for professionals in Hong Kong and nearby regions.听

贰尘补颈濒:听产别苍飞辞苍驳尘濒蔼驳尘补颈濒.肠辞尘听

Gloria WONG Ka Man, Yang Memorial Methodist Social Service, Hong Kong

Gloria is an occupational therapist working with elderly persons with Dementia. She advocates a 鈥渟trength-based approach鈥� and hopes to bring out the best in the person behind dementia. She has experience听in conducting CST and iCST in various settings. Gloria completed the CST-Hong Kong: training of trainer鈥檚 course in September 2018 and is a certified practitioner in Dementiability Methods: The Montessori Way鈩�. Through the application of different non-pharmacological interventions and strategies, she believes it can Make A Difference to the elderly and the caregivers, supporting them to embark on a journey with meaning and love.

贰尘补颈濒:听驳濒辞谤颈补飞辞苍驳蔼测补苍驳.辞谤驳.丑办听

Winsy WONG, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Winsy is a speech therapist practicing in Hong Kong, China. She works with people with communication disorders resulted from neurological conditions such as stroke and dementia. She is also a part-time clinical supervisor at the Division of Speech & Hearing Sciences, the University of Hong Kong. As a PhD candidate, her research interests include cognitive communication disorders and aphasiology, exploration on approaches to rehabilitation, as well as factors associated with treatment outcomes.

贰尘补颈濒:听winsywg@gmail.com听

Yolanda YAU Shuk Man, Christian Family Service Centre, Hong Kong

Yolanda is a Registered Social Worker in HKSAR currently working in Mind Delight Memory and Cognitive Training Centre of the Christian Family Service Centre. She provides non-pharmacological interventions for people with dementia as well as helping their families and caregivers. She has adopted Strengths Perspective in her work for many years. She believes that everyone has his or her strengths and inherent capacities. She is a Certified CST-HK trainer providing CST Practitioners training to the infielders.

贰尘补颈濒:听shukman_yau@cfsc.org.hk

TONG Choi Ying, Christian Family Service Centre, Hong Kong

Tong is the Programme Director of Christian Family Service Centre (Elderly care) supervising elderly care service for more than 10 years. She has set-up the Mind Delight Memory and Cognitive Training Centre in Hong Kong which provides specialised services for people with dementia since 2010. Her centre currently collaborates with Dr. Gloria Wong of The University of Hong Kong to provide Certified CST Practitioner Training for care professionals in Hong Kong. She also initiated home-based intervention for people with dementia in her centre since 2010 and developed online intervention during the period of COVID-19 pandemic.听

Email:听cy_tong@cfsc.org.hk听

Chris YUEN, North District Hospital, Hong Kong

Chris is an experienced Occupational Therapist at North District Hospital (NDH) in Hong Kong who has been devoting to dementia care for more than twenty years. He obtained his first MSc in Training and Performance Management from the Leicester University in 2005. Discovering his interest in dementia and stroke, he further equipped himself an MSc in Stroke and Clinical Neurosciences from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2010 and CST trainer certificate in 2018. To enhance Occupational Therapy service for the dementia, Chris established a structured CST program with his colleagues in NDH and conducts related studies continuously.

贰尘补颈濒:听yuenkl@ha.org.hk听

Anna ZHANG Yan, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong听

Anna is trained as a registered social worker, certificated dementia care planner and accredited assessor of the standardized care need assessment mechanism for elderly services under the Social Welfare Department (HKSAR). She has frontline experience of working with people with dementia. Now, she is a Ph.D. candidate at Department of Social Work and Social Administration in HKU. Her research interests are dementia care, mental health, and long-term care. She is doing the research to investigate the mechanism of optimizing the CST鈥檚 effect and provides CST training in HK, Macau and Mainland China.听

贰尘补颈濒:听anna2011@connect.hku.hk

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