{"product_id":"perspectives-on-wellbeing-applications-from-the-field-9789004507548","title":"Perspectives on Wellbeing: Applications from the Field","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume provides an exciting introduction to social wellbeing and different epistemological standpoints. Targeted at researchers, students, academics, policy makers, practitioners and activists, the volume allows stakeholders to collectively problematise and address marginalised populations’ social wellbeing, providing perspectives and applications from various disciplines such as education, health, public policy and social welfare. Chapters continue to debate social wellbeing within their disciplines, and challenges practitioners’ and researchers’ experience, particularly interactions between individual and social aspects of wellbeing. Contributors provide practical and academic discussions, drawing upon different cultural, historical, political and social paradigms, putting forward available empirical data.    Contributors are: Andrew Azzopardi, Amanda Bezzina, Trevor Calafato, Joanne Cassar, Marlene Cauchi, Carmel Cefai, Marilyn Clark, Maureen Cole, Katya De Giovanni, Melanie E. Demarco, Andreana Dibben, Ruth Falzon, Marvin Formosa, Natalie Kenely, Dione Mifsud, Brenda Murphy, Claudia Psaila, Sandra Scicluna, Anabel Scolaro, Miriam Teuma, Anna Maria Vella, Sue Vella and Carla Willing,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Figures and Tables  Notes on Contributors    Introduction   Andrew Azzopardi, Marilyn Clark and Ruth Falzon    PART 1: Adolescents and Emerging Adults  1 Promoting Resilience and Wellbeing in Children and Young People   Carmel Cefai  2 “Teachers Teach Me, You Help Me Grow!”: Maltese PSD Methodology toward Emotional Literacy and Wellbeing   Amanda Bezzina and Ruth Falzon  3 Preparing Our Students to Leap: Learning from the Experiences of Maltese Female Adolescents in Their Transition to Further Education   Katya DeGiovanni  4 Social Wellbeing as a Contributor to Young People’s Leisure   Joanne Cassar and Miriam Teuma    PART 2: Professional Issues  5 Promoting Wellbeing: A Counselling Perspective   Melanie E. Demarco and Carla Willig  6 Reflective Practice and Reflexivity for Developing Practitioner Wellbeing   Maureen Cole, Natalie Kenely and Claudia Psaila    PART 3: Gender Perspectives  7 Women and Substance Use: Current Status, Future Directions   Marilyn Clark and Anna Maria Vella  8 Re-writing Motherhood: Insights from a Feminist Ethnography with Teenage Mothers in Malta   Andreana Dibben  9 Desperately Seeking Wellbeing: Toxic Media Portrayals and the Pursuit of Happiness   Brenda Murphy    PART 4: Systemic Perspectives  10 Civil Society Should Be a Strong Political Force   Andrew Azzopardi  11 Families and Poverty in European Malta: A Research Agenda   Sue Vella    PART 5: Reflections on Wellbeing  12 Translating Transcultural Well-Being into Practice: A Holistic Counselling Approach   Marlene Cauchi and Dione Mifsud  13 Residents’ Perceptions of Dignity in Nursing Homes for Older Persons: A Maltese Case-Study   Anabel Scolaro and Marvin Formosa  14 Wellbeing in Corrections: Prisoners and Prison Officers    Sandra Scicluna and Trevor Calafato    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210838237527,"sku":"9789004507548","price":43.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/perspectives-on-wellbeing-applications-from-the-field-9789004507548","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}