Facilitation of Will Power

By Dr. Yvonne Luk

This book provides clues for the readers for self-help purpose, or even those who are going through psychotherapy and psychiatric treatments. Not every client is willing to bring out their inner fear to talk face-to-face with a psychologist, psychotherapist, counselor, or psychiatrist; they become more and more anxious about getting into depression. They’d rather choose drug therapy than discussion with the mental health professionals for the rest of their lives. My book is to encourage them to understand their situation and open up to express themselves freely by practicing mindfulness, to be rational in accepting the unchangeable in order to change positively by recruiting new ideas to spring courage for stepping forward. Distortion thought is the major problem of depression.
In part 4 of this book, readers will learn to understand the importance of reasoning belief as the start in self-help. For the parents whose children are suffering from a mental illnesses or who have learning deficits and autism, in reading this book, they will be able to understand the symptoms of their children’s disorders and help them with deeper concern to elicit their fear. Parents also suffer as much as their children do, because they have to endure social discrimination within the circle of the extended families for the abnormalities of their children, that people think they are the burden in a family and in a society and even think their children may be dangerous, a threat to their neighbors’ safety. These ignorant people perceive their children in a skeptic manner. This discrimination is very discouraging and destructive to the parents’ effort to keep up with the mental and psychological treatments to speed up their children recovery. As a matter of fact, the more discrimination people put on the mental disorders, the deeper hurts the parents or the adult clients have to bear, which could finally become a confounding of distrust for the clients to incline their illogical behavior, such as self-injury and aggression.
For the couples who are facing chaos in marriage, they are able to learn to cope with difficult matters arising between wife and husband, and after reading this book, they can make an attempt to change and resolve their family problems by working together mutually. The aim of my book is to focus on reducing the occurrence of stressful situations people are facing that could result a family tragedy. And for those who are not having psychological problems or mental disorders, this book can help them to learn more about the symptoms for prevention.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Aug 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9781482854626

Dr. Yvonne Luk

Yvonne Luk was born and raised up in Hong Kong. After completed a PhD degree in Applied Psychology from The University Of Southern Queensland, Australia. She then became a professional psychologist and psychotherapist since 2004. The areas of her experiences are treating students with learning and mental problems.

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Copyright © 2015 by Dr. Yvonne Luk.

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Contents

Preface

Part 1: What reasons that make patients of various illnesses suffer from anxiety and depression?

Part 2: Mindfulness

Part 3: Assessment and Therapy to Alleviate Symptomatology of Anger, Anxiety and Mood Disorders Caused By Failure and Traumatic Events

Part 4: My Experience Working In the Field Of Learning Difficulty

Part 5: Autism

Part 6: Facilitation of Will Power

In memory of my loving mother Alice Leung

who inspired my writing and working effort, to my father Francis Chan who was always by my side whenever I needed his opinions. This book is also dedicated to my husband Paul Luk, my daughter Dorothy, my son-in-law Andrew Brown, my granddaughter Victoria, whom they have been acting very supportively on my life-time goal from England.

Preface

I started a job in nexus to children psychology in 1970 which was my first teaching job in a nursery and preparatory school right after my graduation from English and commercial school at the age of 17. The small kids in my class were all came from poverty class, not every one of them shared similar intellectual learning behaviour, some of them had speech deficits, even some showed a certain degree of autism disorder characterized by aggression. Since the preparatory school was a charity funded school, it was opened to children whose parents were refugees fled from mainland China where this school was located in the area of public housing built and provided by the British Government to settle them in Hong Kong. I met a lot of problems coping with difficult kids in my class, communicating with their parents to understand their difficult children was even impossible because of language barrier, they responded my concern with just a laugh or smile and then turned away to bring their children home after school hour, at first I viewed they were just rejecting my enquiries, but after few attempts to make them speak with me I realized these parents avoided to discuss their children problems with me was due to their low educational standard from mainland China, for whom they had gone through a revolution turmoil that even they themselves were cognitive dysfunction, this became really a headache problem for me to cope with their troublesome children.

Within the first two months of my job I suffered insomnia and cried a lot for facing the problems in teaching difficult children who created trouble every minute in the class, but thanks to the help of my dearest