Expressed Emotion

The dual-modal (face-to-face and online approaches), client-customized Caregivers Of dementia Processing Emotions (COPE) programme aims to 1. reduce caregivers' Expressed Emotion (EE), 2. reduce caregivers' depressive symptoms, 3. reduce the behaviourally interactive social dynamic of maladaptation (i.e., dysfunctional dyadic relationship and quality of care), and 4. improve caregivers' perceived stress from PwD's Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD). Researchers will compare COPE to a control group (standard therapy) to examine how effective the COPE programme is. Participants will take part in: Pretest prior to COPE implementation Post-test after COPE completion Follow up test in 3 months after COPE completion

The objectives of this research is to (1) create a family intervention and provider manual to train family members of young people with psychosis (YP-P) who are heavy cannabis users new communication skills to motivate change in the YP-P's cannabis use, (2) pre-test the intervention with 10 family member participants and adapt the intervention based on their recommendations, and (3) evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention in a randomized pilot trial (n=40). The investigators anticipate that the intervention will improve family participants' communication skills, decrease expressed emotion and caregiver burden. The investigators anticipate that improvements in communication skills, expressed emotion and caregiver burden will lead to decreases in the cannabis use of their YP-P.

The goal of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an online eight-week mindful parenting program for parents of adolescents with special needs and its impact on parents' wellbeing and behaviors of their adolescents with SEN(s). Researchers will randomize the participants into the immediate intervention group (to start the intervention soon after recruitment) and the waitlist control group (to start the intervention after the immediate intervention group) so as to compare the changes between the two groups. The participants will join the 8-week mindful parenting intervention and one follow-up session. They will be asked to fill in the questionnaires at baseline, after the 8-week intervention, and at the follow-up sessions. Training sessions will be audio-taped and transcripted. The conversation during the zoom classes and participants' sharing on their subjective experience related to mindfulness practices will be analysed.