Dr Shimin Zhu is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has a major research interest in promoting adolescent positive development and mental health.
She studies children and adolescents’ possible selves- how young people perceive their future possibilities leverages their feelings and behaviours.
She also examines how mindsets- the beliefs of one’s own attributes can change or not -influence well-being, behaviours, and mental health.
She studies youth with disadvantages, such as urban youth in poverty, youth with substance use, and migrant and left-behind children in China.
Her research provides evidence-based knowledge to foster the positive development of young people and has direct implications for school education and youth social work services.
Her recent work focuses on unravelling the acceptability and efficacy of brief interventions for promoting youth mental health in the Chinese context.
Her research examines and promotes the application of digital mental health services.
朱詩敏博士是香港理工大學應用社會科學系副教授。她的研究致力推動青少年正向和健康發展。 她研究青少年的可能自我，即年輕人如何看待自己將來的可能性，這些對將來的看法會影響他們的感受和行為；她也研究青少年的心態，探討他們是否相信自己可以改變，以及這些心態如何影響人的健康和行為。 這些研究覆蓋普通青少年和失利青少年人群，例如貧困和流動人口和留守兒童，或有濫用藥物的青少年。朱博士的研究提供實證數據推動青少年正向發展，為學校教育和青少年社會工作提供研究支持。 她近年來致力推動簡短精神健康干預方案在本土的應用，用隨機對照分組實驗探討其應受性和有效性。她的研究探討和推動數字化精神健康服務的應用。