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Perspectives on Wellbeing: Applications from the Field: Studies in Inclusive Education, cartea 51

Andrew Azzopardi, Marilyn Clark, Ruth Falzon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 mar 2022
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,
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004507548
ISBN-10: 900450754X
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Studies in Inclusive Education


Notă biografică

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).

Cuprins

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