Broadening the Scope of Wellbeing Science
Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Flourishing and Wellbeing
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Beschreibung
This book brings together leading researchers on wellbeing science to provide a multidisciplinary approach to psychological wellbeing with implications for the interconnected societal challenges we face today, including loneliness, neoliberalism, inequality and anthropogenic climate change. Its authors present new and innovative models for understanding, building and improving our understanding of the complex construct of wellbeing. The capacity for individual positive change is explored, as well as the scope for such change to impact on the communities and environments within which we live. Further, the book places individual wellbeing within a broader context that also addresses societal needs and challenges. In doing so, it provides a novel synthesis of individual, societal and environmental perspectives on wellbeing and human flourishing.
In the face of an urgent need to build stronger, sustainable and more resilient communities, this book demonstrates how wellbeing science can link the individual with the community through appropriate health and wellbeing policies and offers a guide to a new way for individuals to connect with the world. It will appeal to researchers and professionals working across the fields of psychology, environmental science, public health and public policy.
This book brings together leading researchers on wellbeing science to provide a multidisciplinary approach to psychological wellbeing with implications for the interconnected societal challenges we face today, including loneliness, neoliberalism, inequality and anthropogenic climate change. Its authors present new and innovative models for understanding, building and improving our understanding of the complex construct of wellbeing. The capacity for individual positive change is explored, as well as the scope for such change to impact on the communities and environments within which we live. Further, the book places individual wellbeing within a broader context that also addresses societal needs and challenges. In doing so, it provides a novel synthesis of individual, societal and environmental perspectives on wellbeing and human flourishing.
In the face of an urgent need to build stronger, sustainable and more resilient communities, this book demonstrates how wellbeing science can link the individual with the community through appropriate health and wellbeing policies and offers a guide to a new way for individuals to connect with the world. It will appeal to researchers and professionals working across the fields of psychology, environmental science, public health and public policy.
Provides a novel synthesis of individual, societal and environmental perspectives on wellbeing and flourishing Examines recent, multi-disciplinary advances in wellbeing research Analyses interconnected societal challenges such as climate change from a wellbeing perspective
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Andrew H. Kemp
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“I heartily welcome the focus here on extending, possibly even shifting, the focus of Wellbeing research to embed it in an eco-social framework which thoroughly challenges modernist and Western assumptions about what it means to be human.” (Paul Hoggett, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at University of the West of England, and Co-Founder of the Climate Psychology Alliance, UK).
“In Broadening the Scope of Wellbeing Science, the editors capture the richness of the emerging discipline of wellbeing science. Through the perspectives of experts across several disparate disciplines, the volume provides the basis for a rich, integrative science of wellbeing that expands the original focus of positive psychology from the individual to a collective experience that is independent of cultural and geographical diversity.” (Stephen W. Porges, Distinguished University Scientist, Kinsey Institute Indiana University; Professor of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, USA; Author of Polyvagal Safety (2021))
“How long can humans be well if planetary boundaries are kept being crossed? From an ecological point of view, all wellbeing science needs to take into account ‘planetary wellbeing’. In this insightful volume edited by Drs Kemp and Edwards, experts chart such an agenda including a multifaceted exploration of eco-psycho-social wellbeing. Highly recommended.” (Panu Pihkala, Researcher in eco-anxiety, University of Helsinki, Finland)
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