Well-Being [electronic resource] : Individual, Community and Social Perspectives /
Haworth, J.editor.
Hart, G.editor.
This interdisciplinary book indicates the need to address well-being from individual, community and social perspectives in an integrated manner. The book complements the harm-based focus of much social scientific research into health. Chapters by a wide range of academics present a new dynamic view of well-being for the Twenty-First Century.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Positive psychology and the development of well-being / Jane Henry -- Individual development and community empowerment : suggestions from studies on optimal experience / Antonella Delle Fave -- Webs of well-being : the interdependence of personal, relational, organizational and communal well-being / Isaac Prilleltensky and Ora Prilleltensky -- Health, well-being and social capital / Judith Sixsmith and Margaret Boneham -- Psychology in the community / Carolyn Kagan and Amanda Kilroy -- Art, health and well-being / David Haley and Peter Senior -- Sense and solidarities : politics and human well-being / Perri 6 -- Is well-being local or global? A perspective from ecopsychology / John Pickering -- Societal inequality, health and well-being / Dimitris Ballas, Danny Dorling and Mary Shaw -- A life course approach to well-being / Stephani Hatch ... [et al.] -- Organzational commitment : a managerial illusion? / Michael White -- Well-being, paid work and personal ife / Suzan Lewis and Christina Purcell -- Work, leisure and well-being in changing social conditions / John Haworth -- Friendship, trust and mutuality / Ray Pahl.
This interdisciplinary book indicates the need to address well-being from individual, community and social perspectives in an integrated manner. The book complements the harm-based focus of much social scientific research into health. Chapters by a wide range of academics present a new dynamic view of well-being for the Twenty-First Century.
Health psychology.
Social medicine.
Sports—Sociological aspects.
Medicine.
Medicine .
Health.
Social work.
Health Psychology.
Medical Sociology.
Sociology of Sport and Leisure.
Medicine/Public Health, general.
Popular Science in Medicine and Health.
Social Work.