Rate My Professor Amy Chow

Professor Chow's research specializations encompass bereavement counselling, thanatology, end-of-life care, grief intervention, mental health in bereavement, community-based care for widowed older adults, and cultural competence in death and bereavement. She has secured major grants, including over HK$29 million from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust for the End-of-Life Community Care Project and General Research Fund awards totaling millions for studies on pre-death bereavement care and psychosocial interventions. Key publications include 'Death, Dying and Bereavement: A Hong Kong Chinese Experience' (2006), 'Grief literacy: A call to action for compassionate communities' (2022, Death Studies), 'Guilt in bereavement: A review and conceptual framework' (2014, Death Studies), and 'Dual-process bereavement group intervention (DPBGI) for widowed older adults' (2019, Gerontologist). Her contributions have earned awards such as the Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Hong Kong (2014), Outstanding Research Output Awards from the Faculty of Social Sciences (2010-2020), the 24th Outstanding Social Worker Award from the Hong Kong Social Workers’ Association (2017), Research Recognition Award from the Association for Death Education and Counseling (2020), and Cross-Cultural Award from ADEC (2005). As a pioneer, she founded Hong Kong's first community-based bereavement counselling centre and chairs the International Workgroup on Death, Dying and Bereavement, the Steering Committee of the Hong Kong Academy of Social Work, and serves on the Social Workers Registration Board.