Social Work, Mental Health, and Public Policy in Diverse Contexts: Chinese and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Professor Sheying Chen received his Ph.D. & MSW from the University of California at Los Angeles (School of Public Policy & Social Research) and is currently a tenured professor of Public Administration/Social Policy at Pace University in New York. He is the founding director of the Centers for Social Work Study and Healthcare Administration at top-ranked Tsinghua University, where he served as a senior visiting scholar and senior research fellow of Cross-Strait Research and Sino-American Relations etc. He was Associate Provost for Academic Affairs (2010-2012) at Pace and previously Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor of Sociology at Indiana University (Southeast). Prior to IU, Dr. Chen was Professor and Dean at the University of Guam (UOG), overseeing the Colleges/Schools of: Business & Public Administration; Education; Health Sciences, Nursing & Social Work. He held tenure as Professor and Chair at the City University of New York (Staten Island) where he headed a large unit housing psychology, sociology, anthropology, social work, aging, disability studies, women's studies, and a number of interdisciplinary initiatives. He was a permanent faculty member of Sun Yat-sen University at Guangzhou, the "institution of highest learning" in southern China, from 1986 to 1992, where he served as a coordinator for graduate studies and a forerunner of China's rebuilt social work/policy education and research. A Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and one of the most influential scholars in Chinese social sciences, Professor Chen is the co-editor for the Springer Book Series International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, & Practice and International Perspectives on Aging.

陳社英教授於加州大學洛杉磯分校（公共政策與社會研究學院）獲得博士及社會工作碩士學位，目前是紐約佩斯大學公共行政/社會政策的終身教授。他是清華大學社會工作研究與醫療管理中心的創始主任，曾擔任兩岸研究及中美關係的高級訪問學者和高級研究員等職位。他曾於2010至2012年間擔任佩斯大學學術事務副教務長，並曾任印第安納大學（東南校區）學術事務副校長及社會學教授。在印大之前，陳博士曾擔任關島大學（UOG）的教授及院長，負責商業與公共行政、教育、健康科學、護理及社會工作等學院/學校的管理。他在紐約市立大學（史坦頓島）擔任教授及系主任，負責一個大型單位，涵蓋心理學、社會學、人類學、社會工作、老年學、殘障研究、女性研究及多項跨學科計畫。他於1986年至1992年間是廣州中山大學的永久教職員，該校是中國南方的「最高學府」，並擔任研究生學業協調員，為中國重建的社會工作/政策教育與研究的先驅。陳教授是皇家藝術學會（RSA）的院士，也是中國社會科學領域最具影響力的學者之一，並擔任Springer書系列《國際社會政策、行政與實踐的國際視角》和《國際老齡化的國際視角》的共同編輯。