Dr. Adrian H.Y. WAN

Lecturer

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awan@hku.hk

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Dr. Adrian Wan is a Registered Social Worker (RSW) with over 15 years of experience in health and mental health services in Hong Kong. He specialises in Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC), mindfulness-based interventions, and holistic healthcare practices. Drawing on extensive practice and research expertise, he has worked with evidence-based holistic health interventions, group-based psychotherapies, and psycho-oncology. Dr. Wan earned his Master of Social Sciences in Social Work (MSS) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Hong Kong. He is Hong Kong’s first Certified Teacher of Mindful Self-Compassion and a Self-Compassion-Informed Psychotherapist (SCIP), having trained under Prof. Kristin Neff and Prof. Christopher Germer at the Centre for Mindful Self-Compassion (CMSC). He is also a Fellow (Higher Education) of Advance HE (FHEA).

Adrian’s research interests encompass resilience, post-traumatic growth, psycho-oncology, mindfulness and compassion-based interventions, and holistic healthcare. Over the past decade, Dr. Wan has led professional training in holistic healthcare and facilitated the evidence-based Mindful Self-Compassion Program for allied health professionals, social workers, counsellors, and community members. He is deeply devoted to bringing the principles of self-compassion into his teaching, clinical work, and knowledge exchange projects, striving to foster a compassionate and supportive environment across academic and professional settings. In addition to his research activities, he teaches in the MSS (Behavioural Health) program, where he integrates his practice-based insights into academic learning. He is currently the Deputy Program Director of the MSS(Behavioral Health) Program.

 

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