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Book SynopsisThis 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,
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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
