Professor

B.A., Ph.D. (in Psychology), Ph.D. (in Philosophy),  AFBPsS, CSci, CPsychol.

Bio

Man was born in Hong Kong and earned his BA in Psychology and Sociology (University of Guelph, Canada), PhD in Psychology (University of Sheffield, UK) and PhD in Philosophy (University of Durham, UK).  He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.  He is also a Chartered Scientist and Psychologist.  His research focuses on health/clinical psychology and philosophical psychology. 

Office: Abu Dhabi South Campus, (Room, X-105)
Phone: TBC
Email: Man.chung@zu.ac.ae

Teaching Areas

- Health psychology
- Counselling and psychotherapy

Research and Professional Activities

My research interests lie primarily in the applied area of health/clinical psychology.  I have researched different health/clinical topics including schizophrenia, challenging behaviour in learning disability, autism, forensic psychiatry, stress and burnout and quality of life of older people.  I am also interested in teasing out philosophical issues in psychopathology and psychotherapy. 

Over the past few years, much of my work has focused on posttraumatic stress disorder.  I conducted a series of studies looking at posttraumatic stress reactions of community residents exposed to technological disasters.  Subsequently, I completed a project on the link between these reactions and spinal cord injury.  More recently, I have been investigating the relationship between posttraumatic stress reactions and medical illness/events.  To this end, several projects have been developed looking at posttraumatic stress resulting from life-threatening illnesses of myocardial infarction, stroke, asthma attack, anaphylactic shock, from distressing illnesses of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and epilepsy, from obstetric events of birth and stillbirth, as well as the gynaecological surgical procedure of hysterectomy.  In addition, I have been investigating the relationship between past traumas and subsequently developed physical illnesses, namely, chronic idiopathic urticaria and chronic fatigue syndrome, and the psychiatric condition of obsessive compulsive disorder.   

There are other projects looking at posttraumatic stress including those which focus on examining terror management theory among people who have experienced life-threatening events.  A series of projects focus on the prison population with the view to examining the impact of posttraumatic stress that perpetrators may develop as a result of committing a range of violent crimes.  Others focus on the link between falls and posttraumatic stress reactions among older people.