【新少年·毕业起航】 | 张靖慧Amy：在新哲沃土深耕心理学，圆梦人文社科殿堂港中文

当滑板腾空落地的瞬间，Amy清晰地感知到情绪与行为之间隐秘的联结：练习高难度新动作时，要克服摔倒落地的恐惧，挑战成功则带来全然的成就感。这份和自我情绪博弈的独特体验，成为她叩开心理学大门的起点。

依托新哲特色人文社科培养体系，她系统搭建心理学知识框架，深耕本土青少年心理调研、踏足海外顶尖高校科研项目，以心理学视角拆解当代人的精神困境，立志用专业力量守护心理健康。

如今，她手握香港中文大学、南加州大学、UCL、多伦多大学等多所世界名校Offer，走出一条兼具温度与深度的人文求索之路。本期【新少年VOL.75】，一起走进张靖慧Amy的成长故事。

The moment her skateboard landed after an aerial trick, Amy clearly sensed the hidden link between emotions and behavior. When mastering tough new maneuvers, she fought the fear of falling; nailing a challenge brought immense satisfaction. This unique experience of wrestling with her own emotions opened the door to psychology for her.

Supported by Sendelta’s distinctive humanities and social sciences training system, she built a systematic framework of psychological knowledge, conducted in-depth research on local adolescent mental health, and joined top overseas university research programs. She interprets modern people’s mental struggles through a psychological lens, aspiring to safeguard mental wellness with professional expertise.

Today, she holds multiple offers from world-leading universities including the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), the University of Southern California, UCL and the University of Toronto. She has forged a path of humanistic inquiry balancing warmth and depth. In this issue of New Youth Vol.75, let’s explore Amy’s growth story.

滑板启蒙，埋下心理学初心

不同于传统学校单一的评价体系，新哲鼓励学生平衡学业与兴趣，包容运动、社会实践、学术科研等多元成长路径，为Amy成长探索提供了广阔空间。

滑板是她重要的社交载体与情绪出口。每一次克服恐惧完成高难度动作，都让她清晰感知恐惧、勇气、成就感等情绪如何左右自身行为。滑板带来的情绪体验，成为她好奇心理学的启蒙，让她萌生探究情绪、治愈心理困境的想法。

生物老师Rochin帮助她从生理层面理解情绪、压力与行为的内在关联；数学老师Mike为她搭建起心理学实证研究的数据基础；经济学老师May和Lawrence则培养了她社会行为分析与项目运营的多元思维。

Amy once studied at a public junior high school, where heavy homework and endless tutoring trapped her in cutthroat academic competition. Most of her hobbies—sailing, kayaking, fencing, skiing—were put aside amid overwhelming schoolwork. After careful consideration, she switched to international education and enrolled at Sendelta, where the learning pace matched her needs.

Unlike traditional schools with rigid evaluation standards, Sendelta encourages students to balance academics and hobbies, embracing diverse growth paths including sports, social practice and academic research. It offers ample room for Amy to explore herself.

Skateboarding became her key social outlet and emotional release. Every time she overcame fear to pull off advanced tricks, she gained sharp insight into how fear, courage and a sense of achievement shape human behavior. These emotional experiences from skateboarding ignited her curiosity about psychology and her desire to study emotions and ease mental distress.

Academic excellence lies at the heart of Sendelta’s education. The school offers comprehensive courses covering humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, laying a solid academic foundation for Amy’s psychology studies. Professional faculty provide full academic support.

Psychology teacher Yanjun delivers lively lectures packed with psychological experiments, helping Amy master core theories and solidify her resolve to pursue psychology. Biology teacher Rochin guided her to understand the physiological connections between emotions, stress and behavior. Math teacher Mike equipped her with data analysis skills for empirical psychological research. Economics teachers May and Lawrence cultivated her ability to analyze social behaviors and manage projects from multiple perspectives.

Looking back on her studies, Amy expresses sincere gratitude to every dedicated teacher, her homeroom teacher who offered companionship and emotional support, and classmates who grew alongside her through mutual encouragement. Her time at Sendelta was fulfilling and heartwarming thanks to them all.

知行合一，深挖心理困境成因

课堂理论难以解答真实的社会心理难题，依托新哲全链条人文课程、研创中心实践平台、专业导师全程指导三大人文培养资源，Amy走出教室开展调研，完整走完从选题、调研分析到成果落地的全流程研究，扎实的实证调研能力，也是香港中文大学社科专业重点培养的核心素养。

在CTB全球青年研究创新论坛中，她聚焦青少年“空心人”现象，以深圳高中生为样本开展调研，梳理出学业压力、家庭支持、性别角色期望几大核心诱因，课题斩获全国总决赛卓越奖。

调研结束后，Amy没有止步于一纸报告，而是分享给校内心理老师与同学，助力心理健康科普。落地校园的调研实践，让她真切体会心理学“助人”的内核，坚定深造心理学、帮扶青少年走出心理困境的志向。

Classroom theories alone cannot resolve real-world psychological issues. Drawing on Sendelta’s three core humanities resources—full-spectrum liberal arts curricula, research and innovation centers for hands-on practice, and one-on-one mentorship—Amy stepped outside classrooms to conduct field research, completing full-cycle projects from topic selection and data analysis to result implementation. Strong empirical research skills are core qualities prioritized by CUHK’s social science programs.

At the CTB Global Youth Innovation Research Forum, she studied the "empty youth" phenomenon among Shenzhen high school students. She identified academic pressure, family support gaps and gender role expectations as major contributing factors, and her project won the National Finals Excellence Award.

Instead of stopping at a research report, Amy shared her findings with school counselors and peers to popularize mental health knowledge. This on-campus practice made her truly grasp psychology’s core mission of helping others, strengthening her determination to pursue postgraduate psychology and assist teenagers struggling with mental burdens.

She also joined the NIM Sustainable Development Innovation Challenge, researching "symbolic violence" to analyze psychological distress from a sociocultural perspective. She compiled campus interaction guidelines promoted schoolwide to reduce mental harm caused by prejudiced speech. Her rigorous research and practical outputs earned the Global Jury Outstanding Project Award.

海外科研，探寻心理干预方案

除了深挖心理问题的成因，Amy还参与海外顶尖研究项目，在跨文化场景下拓展心理学研究思路，探索多元化心理干预方案。丰富的国际科研经历，也让她更加贴合港中文国际化的培养定位。

在牛津大学罗宾・墨菲教授主持的心理学课题中，她深耕仪式化行为缓解焦虑的机制，通过整理运动员与学生案例，结合自我效能、自证预言等心理学理论展开分析，完成学术论文并成功发表。

在布朗大学夏校中，她走访多元信仰社群，探究精神寄托对身心疗愈的作用，发现瑜伽、催眠等非宗教心灵方式，能够重塑个体自我认知，为心理干预提供全新思路。

Beyond investigating the origins of psychological struggles, Amy took part in top international research programs to broaden her psychological research horizons across cultures and explore varied intervention methods. Her extensive global research experience aligns well with CUHK’s international education ethos.

Under Professor Robin Murphy at the University of Oxford, she researched how ritualized behaviors ease anxiety. She analyzed cases of athletes and students, applying theories including self-efficacy and self-fulfilling prophecies, and published an academic paper based on her work.

During a summer program at Brown University, she visited communities of diverse faiths to study how spiritual practice supports physical and mental healing. She discovered non-religious mindful practices such as yoga and hypnosis can reshape self-perception, offering new approaches to psychological intervention.

These two overseas research stints taught her that mental support takes countless forms, reinforcing her life goal: to deliver professional psychological counseling to high-stress groups and help them achieve holistic wellbeing.

Literature review, logical reasoning and sample analysis skills honed in Sendelta’s psychology, math and economics courses underpinned her long-term research and advanced studies.

多元实践筑梦，锚定心理学长远理想

除学术研究外，她以多元实践拓展人文社科应用边界——这种积极进取、充满活力的生活状态，以及贴合社会需求的实践，正是港中文心理学专业十分看重的特质。

10年级参与青年创业营，精准捕捉同龄人升学焦虑，组队开发留学资讯APP，凭借完善的用户调研与产品落地能力获评最佳个人奖；运营全球学生心理学资源平台，筛选专业文献、整理科研机会，为同好搭建学术交流渠道，优化心理学资源获取体验。

为推广运动健康社群文化，她牵头举办滑板大赛，全程自主对接场地、设计赛程、制作宣传物料，联动品牌邀请专业滑手到场，吸引近三十名滑手参赛，并获多家媒体报道。

Beyond academic research, Amy expanded the practical applications of humanities and social sciences through varied extracurricular work. This proactive, dynamic mindset and socially relevant practice are highly valued by CUHK’s psychology department.

In Grade 10, she joined a youth entrepreneurship camp and led a team to develop an overseas education information app. She accurately captured her peers’ anxiety over university applications, winning the Best Individual Award for thorough user research and successful product launch. She also runs a global student psychology resource platform, curating academic papers and research opportunities to build a communication hub for psychology enthusiasts and streamline access to academic resources.

To promote inclusive sports culture, she organized a skateboarding competition single-handedly: securing venues, designing schedules, creating promotional materials, partnering with brands and inviting professional skaters. Nearly 30 participants joined, and the event received coverage from multiple media outlets.

Amy believes moderate pressure drives optimal performance, and refuses to be confined by narrow societal standards. This balanced outlook stems from Sendelta’s student-centered education philosophy—the school respects individual growth timelines and supports students to explore their passions at their own pace.

人文育人沃土，以心为光奔赴前路

系统化的培育积淀，助力她在众多申请者中脱颖而出：不仅顺利斩获香港中文大学心理学专业录取，还同时拿下南加州大学、伦敦大学学院、多伦多大学等多所世界名校Offer，成为新哲2026届人文社科录取中的亮眼之星，直观印证了学校人文培养体系的扎实成效。

对于有志攻读心理学的学弟学妹，Amy也分享了自身经验：夯实心理学、生物、统计学核心学科基础，善用校内研创中心、人文社团、竞赛指导等资源，尽早走入社会开展实地调研，在真实生活中挖掘人与心理的底层逻辑。

As a leading institution for humanities, CUHK prioritizes robust empirical research capabilities, empathetic humanistic insight and a global mindset. Sendelta’s Oxbridge & HK Top 3 Program features a three-tier training framework: long-term academic immersion, customized application planning and targeted pre-interview coaching. Paired with full liberal arts curricula, regular social science practice platforms and all-in-one university admissions guidance, it builds a clear growth pathway tailored to top UK and Hong Kong universities.

While studying at Sendelta, Amy leveraged the program’s humanities training system to polish academic research, social observation and global vision—core strengths sought by elite liberal arts schools. Her consistent psychology exploration, solid academic foundation and mission to ease others’ mental struggles align perfectly with CUHK’s educational values.

Comprehensive training set her apart from thousands of applicants: she earned an offer from CUHK Psychology alongside acceptances from USC, UCL, the University of Toronto and other world-class universities. A standout graduate from Sendelta’s Class of 2026 humanities cohort, her success stands testament to the school’s rigorous liberal arts training system.

To underclassmen aspiring to psychology and humanities, Amy shares sincere advice: Master core subjects including psychology, biology and statistics first. Make full use of the school’s research center, liberal arts clubs and competition mentorship. Engage in social surveys and overseas research early, step out of textbooks into real life, and decode the psychological logic behind human beings and society.