Perspectives on Wellbeing: Applications from the Field

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50754-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 51, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Reihe: Studies in Inclusive Education

This 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,

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Azzopardi, Andrew

Clark, Marilyn

Falzon, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie der Lebensart, Well-Being
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Studientechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

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

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Azzopardi, Ed.D. (2005), University of Malta, Associate Professor, Dean, Faculty for Social Wellbeing. Lecturing and research focus include inclusive education, sociology, critical pedagogy, disability politics, youth and community studies. He believes that democratisation of knowledge is fundamental.

Marilyn Clark, Ph.D. (1999), is Associate Professor with the Department of Psychology. She is a social psychologist, and has a particular interest in addiction, criminal careers, victimization and the safety of journalists. She has published extensively in international fora.

Ruth Falzon, Ph.D. (2016), University of Malta, is a Department of Counselling founding member. She has published on wellbeing, school counselling and Specific Learning Difficulties, including a chapter in the International Handbook for Policy Research on School-based Counseling (Springer, 2017).