The document discusses future trends in mental health professions in Hong Kong. It predicts that community mental health treatment will expand, new brain imaging technologies will improve diagnosis, and psychotherapy will become more important. Cooperation between public and private sectors will also grow. Emerging roles may include attention specialist, cognitive behavioral therapist, neurotherapist, peak performance coach, and positive psychology specialist. These professionals will help address Hong Kong's current mental health challenges of underfunding, long wait times, and lack of community services.

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Doctor, Nurse, Physiotherapist,
Occupational Therapist…etc
Psychological
Psychologist, Psychotherapist,
Counselor
Social
Social Worker, Teacher, Police,
Fireman…
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4. The training: If you want to become a clinical
psychologist, you should be prepared to invest
several years in your education. Psychology
candidates fare best when they earn doctoral
degrees, though master's degrees will suffice in
some industrial or corporate positions. A
bachelor's degree serves as a stepping stone to a
higher degree, but rarely to a top position. Most
programs require extensive clinical internships. All
psychologists must be licensed to practice.
Clinical Psychologist
Training
Relatively higher social status
Feel and look morally superior to those in nonhelping professions
Systematic procedures
Stable income
Opportunity to aware and understand internal
feelings of vulnerability, anxiety or fear
Challenges of recognition and confrontation to
our own emotional and psychological
limitations
Benefits of Helping Professions
enjoy meeting people
stable childhoods
enjoy personal growth
empathy, patience, calmness and
compassion
participate regular training
under supervision or review regularly
Requirements of Helping Professions

5. Cognitive Behavioral Therapist
EEG Neurotherapist
Attention Specialist
Blue Options
BCIA-approved health care fields include:
psychology, nursing, physical
therapy, occupational therapy, social work,
counseling, rehabilitation, chiropractic, recreational
therapy, exercise physiology, speech pathology,
and sports medicine. The following fields require a
master's degree: music therapy and counseling
education (M.Ed. in counseling). Credentialed
special education teachers may be certified to
work in educational environments. Degrees in
health care fields other than those listed above
must be submitted to the Certification Review
Committee.
EEG Neurotherapist
Applicants must have completed the terminal
degree in field and be licensed for independent
practice. If licensing is not available or required
by law, the applicant may present alternative
credentials for review by the Academy.
A minimum of forty hours of specific education in
cognitive therapy.
At least one year of clinical experience using
cognitive therapy in a clinical setting with a
minimum of ten patients.
www.academyofct.org
Cognitive Behavioral Therapist

6. Level 3
Written and Practical Assessment
Attention skill training and mentoring
Consultation procedure mentoring
Case management mentoring
Level 2
Practical Skill Training
Play Attention knowledge enhancement
Endorsed by Play Attention (USA)
www.playattention.com
Level 1
No credentialing is needed for self/family usage
Purchase or rent a base unit
Didactic Education
Attention Specialist
Didactic Education
- Human anatomy, human physiology, or
human biology course
- A 36-hour didactic education program
Practical Skills Training
- 25 contact hours spent with a BCIAapproved mentor to learn to apply the
clinical neurofeedback skills.
Written Certification Exam
- The exam consists of 100 multiplechoice items sourced from the Core
Reading List.
EEG Neurotherapist

7. Health Continuum

8. Early-stage deals drove investment
growth trends in the 50+ segment. The
number of deals in this area have grown
from $72 million in 2010 to $335 million
by the end of September 2013.
Health Investment Trend
Among its products, it offers a health risk
assessment — the RealAge Test — and a
social Q&A format tapping health and
wellness experts to help “simplify” the
search for information.
Navigating the healthcare
system attracted the most funding and
deal activity — 78 deals generated $384
million in funding.
Health Investment Trend
Continuity is a key characteristic of
primary care, as patients usually prefer
to consult the same practitioner for
routine check-ups and preventive
care, health education, and every time
they require an initial consultation about
a new health problem.
Primary Care

9. Investment in mental health care is on
the low side when compare with other
high income countries.
Inadequate funding/ Under resources
resulted in
- Under staff
- Long waiting time of 2-3 years
- Short consultation time of 5-7 minutes
Hong Kong Situation
Vital sign monitoring had the largest
average median deal size.
Emergency detection and
response generated the second most
deal growth.
Medication management/adherence is
seen as an emerging category in digital
health
Health Investment Trend
(http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr07-08/english/panels/hs/papers/hs1122cb2-3736-e.pdf)
Unsatisfactory Specialist-Primary Care
and Public-private cooperation
Majority of the mental health treatment
and rehabilitation are located in
institutes and not scattering around in
the community
Hong Kong Situation
Behavioral Health Business Models
- Specialty Centers
- Addiction and Rehabilitation
Centers
- Inpatient Centers
- Crisis Stabilization Units
(http://www.law360.com/articles/442783/pe-investors-should-considerbehavioral-health)
PE Investors Should Consider
Behavioral Health
Health Investment Trend

10. Trend of Knowledge Economics
Extensive government intervention
Asymmetric information
Barriers to entry
Externalities
Presence of a 3rd party agent
Charateristic of Health Economics
Innovation
Education
Internet advancement
Mobile Technology
Understanding of Brain & Neuroscience
Brainwave technology
Possibility of mobile office / clinic
Flexibility of time and place
Advanced Technology
Information
Infrastructure
Economic and
Institutional
regime
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Knowledge Economics

11. Inner Balance
(http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr07-08/english/panels/hs/papers/hs1122cb2-373-6-e.pdf)
Community mental health treatment
New investigation machines/instruments in brain wave
study, brain mapping and neuron-imaging might
improve the accuracy of diagnosis and act as a tool for
scientific research in the field.
Psychotherapy becoming one of the most important
treatment modes for mental health.
Psychotherapy should be used as a basic treatment for
all patients and/or their carers / relatives / family
members.
To enhance specialist-primary care , public-private
cooperation by engaging private sectors to take up a
more active role in the caring of patients suffering from
mental disorder.
Future Mental Health Trend in HK
New Training Trend
Neural Level Monitoring

12. Attention Specialist
Mood Coach (Cognitive Behavioral Therapist)
Neurotherapist
Peak Performance Coach
Positive Psychology Specialist
Future Mental Health Professions in
HK
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