Dr. CHUNG, Man-chi Sandrine

Assistant Professor
Evidence Base Project Coordinator, MSS in Play Therapy Programme
Director, Play Therapy Research and Practice Laboratory
 

 

 

 

- Child development
- Developmental psychology
- Executive functioning in early childhood 
- Play and learning 
- Play therapy and its effectiveness
- Interventions and emotional support for children with SEN and caregivers

Doctor of Philosophy, 
Developmental psychology and psycholinguistics,
The Education University of Hong Kong

Master of Education, 
Educational and developmental psychology, 
The Education University of Hong Kong

Bachelor of Arts in General Studies, 
Psychology and Business
Indiana University (Bloomington)

Chung, M. C. (2020). Rethinking play in preschool classroom: the cognitive, affective and contextual roles of constructive play in storytelling and retelling performance. (Doctoral dissertation, The Education University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).

Wong, S. W., Cheng, R. W. Y., Chow, B. W. Y., & Chung, S. M. C. (2019). The Link Between a Set of Tangram-Based Tasks and Chinese and English Reading and Related Skills Among Chinese Kindergarteners. AERAOpen, 5(1), 2332858419829723.

Chung, M. C. (2024). The Perceptional Shift of Play among Hong Kong Parents of Children with Special Educational Needs Before and After Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) Training. Advances in Play Therapy Research: An Intercultural Dialogue, 2024, Hong Kong.

Zhou, D. H. R., Lee, S. M., Chung, M. C. (2023). Expressive Arts Groups of Love Five Languages for Parents of Children with SEN. Enhancing Resiliency in Children and Practitioners: Play Therapy Practice, Education and Research, 2023. Hong Kong.

Connolly, P., Chung, M. C., Chan, K. H. (2023). Enhancing physical affection between parents and children with special needs. Enhancing Resiliency in Children and Practitioners: Play Therapy Practice, Education and Research, 2023. Hong Kong.

Chan, K. H. & Chung, M. C., (2023). Stigmatized experience and coping strategies: Two case studies of parents with SEN children in Hong Kong. Enhancing Resiliency in Children and Practitioners: Play Therapy Practice, Education and Research, 2023. Hong Kong.

Chung, S. M. C. & Yiu, P. (2023). The power of sensory play on young children’s early development: case studies and method insights from a parent aka toy developer. Enhancing Resiliency in Children and Practitioners: Play Therapy Practice, Education and Research, 2023. Hong Kong.

Chung, S. M. C. (2023).Exploring the expressive vocabularies of Cantonese speaking preschool children under the storytelling settings. The 7th Annual Conference for the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA 2023). Hong Kong.

Chung, S. M. C. (2021). Rethinking play in preschool classrooms:  The cognitive, affective and contextual roles of constructive play in storytelling and retelling performance. Learning and Teaching Expo, Hong Kong. 

Chung, S. M. C. (2021). Symposium: Enhancing language and reading development beyond linguistic and meta-linguistic approaches. The 5th Annual Conference for the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA 2021), Hong Kong.

Chung, S. M. C. (2021). Bricks play and creative storytelling: a constructive approach to enhance pre-schoolers’ micro- and macrostructural discourse elements in oral language. 2021Children’s Development and Healing. WuHan, China & Hong Kong. 

Chung, S. M. C. (2019). The effects of classroom activities on 5-year-old children’s story retelling performance. The Fifth International Conference on Linguistics and Language Studies. Hong Kong. 

Chung, S. M. C. (2016). The effects of three different play activities on preschool children’s storytelling and retelling skills. The International Postgraduate Roundtable and Research Forum cum Summer School. Hong Kong  

鍾曼姿 (主編) (2024) 《聆聽你SEN音: 協助有特殊教育需要兒童和家人溝通的多元介入》。香港樹仁大學。 ISBN: 978-988-76285-8-3

李小敏, 鍾曼姿 (2024)  表達藝術治療都有特殊教育需要兒童的支援。 收錄於鍾曼姿 (主編) 《聆聽你SEN音: 協助有特殊教育需要兒童和家人溝通的多元介入》(pp. 69-77) 。香港樹仁大學。 ISBN: 978-988-76285-8-3

周德慧, 袁志文, 鍾曼姿 (2023)。《親子遊戲治療手冊》。香港樹仁大學。 ISBN: 978-988-76285-5-2

1/2025- 6/2026
Navigating the visual tapestry: Unveiling stress coping in the resilience journey of caregivers of children with special educational needs through Photovoice in Hong Kong Faculty Development Scheme, University Grants Committee
HKD$548,211.
Principal investigator
 
2024- 2025 The Old Man and the Dog: Exploring the Role of Companion Animal in Integrated Wellbeing Management of Hong Kong Elderly- A Qualitative Pilot Study. University Research Grant HKD38,480.
Co- investigator.
 
2023-24 Multi- perspectives in enhancing effective communication between SEN children and their parents: physical affection, play intervention and expressive arts intervention 2022-23. Funding Scheme for Children's Well- being and Development, Commission on Children, HKD528,300. 
Principal investigator.
 
2017-18 Title of project: Comics as assistive tools for reading and learning development: a meta-analysis Department of Psychology, The Education University of Hong Kong
Departmental Research Grant- HKD100,000. 
Co- investigator.

PSY100 Introductory Psychology
PSY304 Psychological Assessment
PSY307 Educational Psychology

PSY320 Motivation and Learning

PSY340 Advanced Developmental Psychology
PSY401 Research thesis I
PSY402 Research thesis II
PSY403 Research thesis III
PSY411 Honors research project I & II

MPT 508 Research Methods in Play Therapy Studies

MPT 514-515 Evidence- based research project 

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Email: mcchung@hksyu.edu

 

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