Perspectives on wellbeing : : applications from the field / / edited by Andrew Azzopardi, Marilyn Clark and Ruth Falzon.

• Superior document: Studies in Inclusive Education ; 51
• TeilnehmendeR: Falzon, Ruth,; Clark, Marilyn,; Azzopardi, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Inclusive Education ; 51.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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.

Table of Contents

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.