{"id":1000,"date":"2019-07-31T14:01:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T14:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/taipei\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2019-09-10T15:46:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T15:46:16","slug":"faith-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/taipei\/2019\/07\/31\/faith-wong\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1018\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/taipei\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/07\/Faith-Wong-compressor.jpg\" alt=\"Healthcare, Quality Improvement, Taipei 2019, International Forum 2019\" width=\"150\" height=\"212\" \/><\/em><\/p><br><p><em>Faith Wong, Peer Specialist, Institute of Mental Health; Singapore<\/em><\/p><br><p>Faith Wong is currently a Peer Support Specialist with the Mood Disorders Unit at the Institute of Mental Health (Singapore), where she is constantly inspired by the indomitable spirit of the peers. She facilitates recovery-oriented groups for both inpatients and outpatients, and also supports individual clients through their pain and uncertainties, with a smile, some jokes, and lots of love.<\/p><br><p>Faced with the tsunamis of Bipolar Disorder for 2 decades, armed with her grit and a wicked sense of humour, Faith fought hard against the waves \u2013 dropped out several times, graduated as top student of faculty in a local polytechnic, received a government scholarship which took her to the UK for a degree in Modelmaking \u2013 and finally emerged as a survivor to tell her story and inspire hope in others.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith Wong, Peer Specialist, Institute of Mental Health; SingaporeFaith Wong is currently a Peer Support Specialist with the Mood Disorders Unit at the Institute of Mental Health (Singapore), where she is constantly inspired by the indomitable spirit of the peers. She facilitates recovery-oriented groups for both inpatients and outpatients, and also supports individual clients through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/taipei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/taipei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/taipei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/taipei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/taipei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/taipei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/taipei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/taipei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/taipei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}