Calendar 2005–06

132 Part 3 • Research Units and University Extensions Clinical and Health Psychology Centre Tel.: 2609 6501 Fax.: 2603 5019 E-mail: clinical@psy.cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.psy.cuhk.edu.hk The Clinical and Health Psychology Centre, set up in September 1993 under the Department of Psychology, is run by qualified clinical psychologists of the department. Various forms of psychological services for both adults and children are available to the public and University staff referred by the University Health Service. These include assessment of intelligence, aptitude, personality, and vocational interests; specialized neuropsychological and forensic evaluations; and individual, group, marital, and family therapies. Treatment programmes can be designed for child development problems, improving parenting skills, marital adjustment, depression, stress management, and improving social skills and assertiveness. Fees are charged according to the type of service provided. The centre is located on the third floor of Wong Foo Yuan Building on Chung Chi campus. Comparative Literature Research Programme Tel.: 2609 7005/7 Fax.: 2603 5270 E-mail: english@cuhk.edu.hk The research facility, originally called the Comparative Literature Research Unit, was founded in 1979 to foster intercultural exchange through comparative literature studies. From the beginning, this programme has assumed a Chinese perspective in its collaborative scholarly efforts with other comparatists. Its activities dovetail very well with the stated aims of the University in its dedication to ‘both traditional Chinese scholarship and modern Western scholarship, and to the synthesis of the two’. To this end, the programme aims at establishing contact with comparatists from the world over in order to explore areas of mutual interest. Over the past 20 years, the programme has organized conferences on comparative studies in poetics, drama and fiction, and has produced publications that have wide impact in these areas. In its recent activities, the programme has been supported by grants from various sources and has focused its research on globalization, language and cultural contact, and Asian identity. Acurrent research project is ‘Drama/theatre Criticism in Hong Kong’, which is funded by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. The programme also devotes its energies to three other general areas: publications, conferences, and resource materials collection. A journal under the title Chinese-International Comparative Literature Bulletin was introduced in 1990. Directories of scholars throughout the world interested in promoting Chinese-Western comparative literature studies and their activities have been compiled to keep comparatists updated on the latest in the field. In 1996, the bulletin was renamed Comparative Literature & Culture . As a new initiative, the programme plans to launch a new series Comparative Literature and Culture to replace the bulletin.