Well-being: individual, community and social perspectives

Well-being: individual, community and social perspectives

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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. JOHN HAWORTH is Visiting Research Fellow in the Research Institute for Health and Social Change at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published extensively on work, leisure and well-being. Formerly at Manchester University, he co-founded the Leisure Studies Association, and the international journal Leisure Studies. GRAHAM HART is Professor Sexual Health and Director of the Division of Population Health at University College London, UK. His main research interests are in risk behaviours for and interventions to prevent unwanted sexual health outcomes, including HIV infection. He has published widely in these areas. INDICE: List of Figures - List of Tables - Notes on Contributors - Introduction: 'J.Haworth' & 'G.Hart' - PART I - Positive Psychology and the Development of Well-Being; 'J.Henry' - Individual Development and Community Empowerment: Suggestions from Studies on Optimal Experience; 'A.Delle Fave' - Webs of Well-Being: The Interdependence of Personal, Relational, Organizational and Communal Well-Being; 'I.Prilleltensky' & 'O.Prilleltensky' - Health, Well-Being andSocial Capital; 'J.Sixsmith' & 'M.Boneham' - Psychology in the Community; 'C.Kagan'' & 'A.Kilroy' - Art, Health and Well-Being; 'D.Haley' & 'P.Senior' -Sense and Solidarities: Politics and Human Well-Being; 'Perri 6' - PART II - Is Well-Being Local or Global? A Perspective from Ecopsychology; 'J.Pickering'- Societal Inequality, Health and Well-Being; 'D.Ballas, D.Dorling' & 'M.Shaw' - A Life Course Approach to Well-Being; 'S.Hatch, F.Huppert, R.Abbott, T.Croudace, G.B.Ploubidis, M.E.J.Wadsworth, M.Richards' & 'D.Kuh' - Organizational Commitment: A Managerial Illusion?; 'M.White' - Well-Being, Paid Work and Personal Life; 'S.Lewis' & 'C.Purcell' - Work, Leisure and Well-Being in Changing Social Conditions; 'J.Haworth' - Friendship, Trust and Mutuality; 'R.Pahl' - Index -

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-35568-2
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Rústica
  • Páginas: 296
  • Fecha Publicación: 09/12/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés