Speaker：刘德辉 教授

Time：14:00—16:00， June 18，2024

Venue：Room 1113， Wangkezhen Building

Host：甘怡群 教授

Abstract

Adolescent mental disorder is a global health concern, while depression is the most prevalent type of adolescent mental disorder. The government has been very responsive in the matter, asking the education system to implement regular and universal mental health checkups for the students. Such an encouraging policy paves the way to early detection, prevention, and treatment. It, however, also faces some challenges, such as the chance of having false positives and the need for stakeholders to distinguish between screening and diagnosis. Other issues include the ethical need to follow up those screened positive and avoidance of labelling those screened positive. The universal screening at schools is hence a large-scale program that needs inter-disciplinary integrations among researchers and practitioners in psychology, psychiatry, public health, and education. The presentation offers some perspectives from the angle of public health. One of the discussions is about the nature of the screening tool. Screening tools detecting mental distress developed by psychologists and psychiatrists often focus on symptoms. The screening results may hence point directly to mental disorders. For instance, currently, PHQ-9 is a well validated tool commonly used in the universal screening of depression in the school setting. This presentation discusses about the development of a screening tool basing on protective and risk factors instead of symptoms, which may have very similar positive and negative findings comparing to PHQ-9 (ROC area of about .92). It is however, may hence involve less labelling effect and ethical issues. It may also be able to detect other mental health problems. The implications will be discussed.

Bio

刘德辉教授为香港中文大学学士、加州大学伯克利分校硕士及博士、浙江大学光彪讲座教授、温州医科大学精神科学院领军人物及应用心理学系系主任、温州医科大学公共精神健康中心创始主任、温州医科大学附属康宁医院公共精神卫生首席科学家。现亦担任英国皇家内科医学院公共卫生学院院士，香港中文大学终身教授、博士生导师及健康行为研究中心创始主任，曾任该校公共卫生学院副院长、中国科学院心理所客座教授及海外评审专家及顾问。他是 2023国际的 Best Scientist Award及2024年 Medicine Leader 得奖人，及入选Stanford University 全球 2%顶尖科学家(2022年为全中国公共卫生排名首位)。刘教授是国际知名的行为及心理健康学专家，曾获由二十多个国家分会组成的国际行为医学学颁发杰出科学家奖和国际合作奖两个奖项及香港政府最佳健康促进奖项。现任中华预防医学协会行为健康分会副主任委员、 中国心理学会行为健康专业委员会副主任委员、中国健康促进与教育协会心理健康教育分会常务委員及香港行为健康学会主席。另外曾任清华大学客座研究员、中山大学海外名师、澳门大学杰出学者。他是SSCI 期刊 International Journal of Mental Health主编及多本国际杂志编委。他共获得了140多研究项目资助，发表了约730 篇SCI/SSCI文章(包括Lancet，BMJ)，被引用超过28300次，h-index为83。

2024-06-12