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Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, Volume VI, Interventions and Policies to Enhance Wellbeing

by Cary Cooper, Felicia Huppert

March 2014

Intermediate to advanced

704 pages

20h 20m

English

Wiley

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Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide
Title Page
Copyright
About the Editors
Contributors
Full Contents of Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide
Introduction to Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide
The Volumes in the SeriesReferences
Introduction to this Volume
Reference
Chapter 1: The State of Wellbeing Science
What is Wellbeing?What is the Relationship Between Wellbeing and Illbeing?Measuring WellbeingBeyond Measures of Happiness and Life Satisfaction: Wellbeing as a Multidimensional ConstructManaging the Multiplicity of Wellbeing Theories and MeasuresComposite Measure or a Dashboard?What Do We Know about the Causes of Wellbeing?Interventions to Enhance WellbeingPolicy Implications of Wellbeing ScienceReferences

Part 1: Individual and Group Interventions across the Life Course
Chapter 2: Parenting Interventions to Promote Wellbeing and Prevent Mental Disorder
BackgroundOutcomes of ParentingDeterminants of Parenting and Risk Factors for Poor ParentingInterventions to Support ParentingPerinatal ProgramsParenting Support in Infancy and Early YearsParenting Programs with a Focus on Children's BehaviorInterventions with the Most Seriously Compromised ParentsCommon FindingsApproaches to ResearchDevelopments in Parenting SupportReferences
Chapter 3: Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools
IntroductionMethodsResultsDiscussion—What Works?Summary and ConclusionsAcknowledgmentsReferencesFurther Reading
Chapter 4: An Exploration of the Effects of Mindfulness Training and Practice in Association with Enhanced Wellbeing for Children and Adolescents
IntroductionChild and Adolescent WellbeingChild and Adolescent MindfulnessCurrent Practice: Mindfulness-Based Programs for Children and AdolescentsFuture Directions: Bringing Mindfulness and Wellbeing Research TogetherConcluding CommentsReferences
Chapter 5: MindMatters
IntroductionBackgroundTheoretical Base of MindMattersA Comprehensive Approach to Mental Health Promotion: The Inverted TriangleRelationship between MindMatters, Mental Health Promotion, Wellbeing, Resilience, and Social and Emotional LearningPhase 1 The MindMatters Pilot 1997Phase 2 National Dissemination on MindMattersEarly Intervention—MindMatters PlusEvolution in the Professional Development and ResourcesQuality Management in Project Staff SelectionEvaluation of Efficacy and Effectiveness from Health and Education PerspectivesEvaluation DesignsThe National Implementation Study of MindMatters (This section is based on the Evaluation Report, Hazell, 2005, used with permission)Phase 3 The Current Phase of MindMattersConclusionKey Positive OutcomesAcknowledgmentsReferences
Chapter 6: A Systematic Review of Mental Health Promotion in the Workplace
IntroductionMethodology of the ReviewSummary of the Review of InterventionsIs Workplace Mental Health Promotion Feasible?Call for Wellbeing Promotion in the WorkplaceConclusionsAcknowledgmentReferences
Chapter 7: Wellbeing Begins with “We”
The Need for Social Closeness InterventionsTypes of Social Closeness InterventionsInterventions to Decrease LonelinessThe Role of Social Media and Electronically Mediated CommunicationThe Role of Personal TraitsSocial Closeness in the CommunityConclusionReferences
Chapter 8: The Experience Corps®
IntroductionWellbeing in Later AdulthoodOverview of the AARP Experience Corps ProgramThe Conceptual ModelNational Demonstrations of the Experience Corps ModelFindings from the Experience Corps Pilot TrialExperience Corps Randomized TrialHow the Experience Corps Program Addresses Improved WellbeingPolicy ImplicationsConclusions and Future DirectionsAcknowledgmentsReferences
Chapter 9: Enhancing Mental Health and Mental Wellbeing in Older People
IntroductionMental Health in Older PeopleMental Health and Mental Wellbeing Among Older People: Social DeterminantsPsychosocial Interventions: Enhancing Mental Health in Later LifeConcluding RemarksReferences
Part 2: Interventions to Create Positive Organizations and Communities
Chapter 10: Wellbeing as a Business Priority
IntroductionBackgroundThe Corporate JourneyCommon FactorsImpact of Wellbeing ProgramsReferences
Chapter 11: The Power of Philanthropy and Volunteering
Question 1: What Are the Effects of Giving Time and Money on Givers' Psychological Wellbeing?Question 2: Where Do these Effects Exist? Do these Effects Exist Across Cultures?Question 3: When, or in Which Circumstances, Do these Effects Exist?Question 4: Who Benefits Most from Giving, and When Giving to Whom?Question 5: Why Should Giving Time or Money Have any Psychological Benefits at All?Question 6: What Next?AcknowledgmentsReferences
Chapter 12: Community Change
Introduction: The Balance Between the Individual and the Community—a Symbiotic RelationshipEcological Thinking about the Wellbeing of Children and FamiliesThe Value of Community Social CapitalA Sense of Belonging: Social InclusionWorking Together for Community ChangeWhat is a Community?Complexities of Evaluating Community InterventionsComplexity of OutcomesResearch DesignCommunity InterventionsSummaryReferences
Chapter 13: The Health and Wellbeing Effects of Active Labor Market Programs
IntroductionWhat are Active Labor Market Programs?A Gap in the Evidence BaseWhat Evidence is There?ALMPs, Health, and WellbeingConclusionReferences
Part 3: The Policy Perspective
Chapter 14: Creating Good Lives Through Computer Games
IntroductionPsychological WellbeingPhysical WellbeingSocial WellbeingWellbeing for People with Intellectual Disability: The Stomp Case StudyConclusionsReferences
Chapter 15: Retooling for Wellbeing
IntroductionBackgroundA Rationale for Public Mental Health, Positive Psychology, and Media ActionPsychosocial Adaptation in Today's WorldHow Can Media Help?Media can Influence Mental Ill-Health: Can it Also Improve Wellbeing?Can the New Interactive Social Media Help?Two Examples of Mass-Media Interventions From the United States and KenyaIn Closing: How to be a Media and Positive Psychology ExpertReferences
Chapter 16: Policy and Wellbeing
Policy and WellbeingHow Did we Get to Taking Wellbeing Seriously?The Coalition Government of 2010The Policy-Making Process and the “Green Book”Implications for PolicyConclusionReferences
Chapter 17: Measuring what Matters
Introduction: Why Measuring MattersWhat Headline Economic Indicators Don't Tell YouAn Alternative: Measuring FlourishingMeasures of Flourishing Versus Measures of its DriversValid and Reliable National Measures of FlourishingEffective Measures of FlourishingResponding to Critiques of Subjective Wellbeing MeasurementApplying the Criteria: A Sketch and a Case StudyBeyond Subjective Wellbeing: A Framework for Measuring ProgressConclusionReferences
Chapter 18: Mental Health and Wellbeing at the Top of the Global Agenda
Making a Serious Case for Wellbeing: From Rhetoric to MeasurementStrengthening the Arguments for Wellbeing: From Economics to SustainabilityWellbeing: From Communities that Thrive to Building a Sustainable EnvironmentOpportunities for Transformation: Challenges Ahead and Areas for DevelopmentConclusion: Global Traction for Wellbeing and HappinessReferences
Chapter 19: How can Subjective Wellbeing be Improved?
IntroductionHow can Subjective Wellbeing be Measured?What has been Learned thus Far?How can the Results be Used to Improve Policies?ConclusionAcknowledgmentsReferences
Index

Overview

Using an evidence-based approach and case studies from a wide range of life domains, Interventions and Policies to Enhance Wellbeing examines the most successful existing strategies to promote wellbeing and mental health.

Discusses the results of the latest research in the science of wellbeing and their implications for improved learning, creativity, productivity, relationships, and health

Covers interventions for individuals across the lifespan, as well as those for organizations, communities, and entire populations

Looks at policy initiatives and approaches with a focus on the integration of new technology and the role of the media

Part of the six-volume Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, which brings together leading research from across the social sciences

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