CHILD, ADOLESCENT AND PARENT WELL-BEING AND MENTAL HEALTH
Associate Professor Lucy Tan is the lead for research projects in this stream and has a focus on the evidence-based assessment of children and adolescent well-being and its integration with their environments (e.g., parents/caregivers; families/out-of-home care). Research in this stream seeks to illuminate the complexity in the development between children/adolescents, their primary attachment figures (parents/caregivers), and well-being. Thus, examining the inter-play between psychological well-being, the processes, and mechanisms in Southeast Asia context.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Emotional Resiliency and Mental Health Projects
This project examines both the prevalence and the integration of emotional resiliency in this age group and their environments (schools, families including out-of-home placements). The premise of this work is that by the quality of one’s relationships can be improved by understanding ourselves, understanding others and knowing how to modulate our emotional adjustment.
Emotional resiliency and sometimes referred to as emotional intelligence are recognized as being increasingly important for overall psychological fitness and mental health, yet research on its development in Asia, is limited. This research project examines attitudes towards emotional resiliency and competencies in Singapore with a view to promote, embed and translate nuanced research findings into practice.
Sleep and Well-being Projects
This research examines adolescents’ sleep and well-being in Singapore and leveraging on partnerships with local primary and secondary health agencies - with a view of enhancing the association of sleep and adolescent well-being.
This research examines adolescent mental health workforce capability building in adolescent sleep and well-being practice within the Singapore health programme. It aims to promote evidence-based approaches and drive evidence-based practices.
Mindfulness and Well-being Projects
Mindfulness and Risk-taking: This research explores the understanding of mindfulness as both a process and mechanism of well-being. This project will investigate the association of mindfulness and its relationship with risk-taking, in particular relevant to adolescents.
Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (Greco et al., 2010): This project will investigate examine the reliability and validity of the Measure in a multicultural sample in Asia.