Yau Wan Kwan, Mandy
游韻君

Mandy has worked in the social welfare sector for nearly ten years, with experience at the Integrated Family Service Centre, schools, and youth academies. She has accumulated extensive experience, particularly in serving children with special educational needs, youth, and adolescents facing emotional difficulties. Additionally, Mandy has served various families, couples, elderly individuals, and caregivers.

In expressive arts therapy, multiple cases, groups, and workshops applied to children, adolescents, parent-child relationships, and caregivers have received positive feedback. Her master's thesis focused on the application of expressive arts therapy in cases involving caregivers of adolescents with mental health issues, revealing significant improvements in the psychological well-being of caregivers and notable effects in stress relief. In applications with adolescent cases, she witnessed how expressive arts therapy effectively helps youth express themselves. One client, after twenty sessions, showed marked improvement in anxiety levels, effectively reducing fear of attending school and improving attendance.

Mandy於社福界工作近十年，曾於家庭服務中心、學校、青年學院工作，特別對服務特殊學習需要兒童、⻘年、受情緒困擾的⻘少年累積豐富經驗。此外，Mandy亦曾服務不同家庭、夫婦、長者以及照顧者。

在表達藝術治療中，有多個個案、小組及工作坊應用於兒童、青少年、親子及照顧者均有正面回饋。碩士論文中為研究表達藝術治療對於精神病患青少年之照顧者的個案應用，樂見表達藝術治療對於照顧者的心理健康有非常顯著提升，對解壓亦有顯著效果。在應用於青少年個案上，見證表達藝術治療能有效地幫助青少年表達自己，其中有案主經歷二十節個案，表達藝術治療顯注改善其焦慮情況，有效減低對上學的恐懼，改善缺課情況。