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

705 Pages·2014·2.952 MB·English

by  Felicia A. Huppert, Cary L. Cooper

Interventions and Policies to Enhance
Wellbeing
Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, Volume VI
Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide
Volume I: Wellbeing in Children and Families
EditedbySusanH.LandryandCaryL.Cooper
Volume II: Wellbeing and the Environment
EditedbyRachelCooper,ElizabethBurton,andCaryL.Cooper
Volume III: Work and Wellbeing
EditedbyPeterY.ChenandCaryL.Cooper
Volume IV: Wellbeing in Later Life
EditedbyThomasB.L.KirkwoodandCaryL.Cooper
Volume V: The Economics of Wellbeing
EditedbyDavidMcDaidandCaryL.Cooper
Volume VI: Interventions and Policies to Enhance Wellbeing
EditedbyFeliciaA.HuppertandCaryL.Cooper
Interventions and Policies to
Enhance Wellbeing
Wellbeing: A Complete Reference
Guide, Volume VI
Edited by Felicia A. Huppert
and Cary L. Cooper
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Contents of this Volume
AbouttheEditors ix
Contributors xi
FullContentsofWellbeing:ACompleteReferenceGuide xiii
IntroductiontoWellbeing:ACompleteReferenceGuide xxvii
IntroductiontothisVolume xxxv
1 TheStateofWellbeingScience:Concepts,Measures,
Interventions,andPolicies 1
FeliciaA.Huppert
Part1 Individual and Group Interventions across the Life
Course 51
2 ParentingInterventionstoPromoteWellbeingandPrevent
MentalDisorder 53
SarahStewart-Brown
3 PromotingMentalHealthandWellbeinginSchools 93
KatherineWeareandMelanieNind
4 AnExplorationoftheEffectsofMindfulnessTraining
andPracticeinAssociationwithEnhancedWellbeing
forChildrenandAdolescents:Theory,Research,and
Practice 141
ChristineBurke
5 MindMatters:ImplementingMentalHealthPromotionin
SecondarySchoolsinAustralia 185
LouiseRowlingandTrevorHazell
6 ASystematicReviewofMentalHealthPromotioninthe
Workplace 221
CzesławCzabałaandKatarzynaCharzyn´ska
ContentsofthisVolume
7 WellbeingBeginswith‘‘We’’:ThePhysicaland
MentalHealthBenefitsofInterventionsthatIncreaseSocial
Closeness 277
BethanyE.KokandBarbaraL.Fredrickson
®
8 TheExperienceCorps :IntergenerationalInterventionsto
EnhanceWellbeingAmongRetiredPeople 307
GeorgeW.Rebok,MichelleC.Carlson,KevinD.Frick,
KatherineD.Giuriceo,TaraL.Gruenewald,SylviaMcGill,
JeanineM.Parisi,WilliamA.Romani,TeresaE.Seeman,
ElizabethK.Tanner,andLindaP.Fried
9 EnhancingMentalHealthandMentalWellbeinginOlder
People:ImportantConceptsandEffectivePsychosocial
Interventions 331
AnnaK.Forsman,EijaStenga˚rd,andKristianWahlbeck
Part2 Interventions to Create Positive Organizations
and Communities 355
10 WellbeingasaBusinessPriority:Experiencefromthe
CorporateWorld 357
CatherineKilfedderandPaulLitchfield
11 ThePowerofPhilanthropyandVolunteering 387
SaraKonrath
12 CommunityChange:TheComplexNatureofInterventionsto
PromotePositiveConnections 427
SueRoffeyandJacquelineBarnes
13 TheHealthandWellbeingEffectsofActiveLaborMarket
Programs 465
AdamP.Coutts,DavidStuckler,andDavidJ.Cann
Part3 The Policy Perspective 483
14 CreatingGoodLivesThroughComputerGames 485
DanielJohnson,PetaWyeth,andPennySweetser
15 RetoolingforWellbeing:MediaandthePublic’sMentalHealth 511
MartenW.deVries
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ContentsofthisVolume
16 PolicyandWellbeing:TheU.K.GovernmentPerspective 541
DavidHalpern
17 MeasuringwhatMatters 561
JulietMichaelson,CharlesSeaford,SaamahAbdallah,and
NicMarks
18 MentalHealthandWellbeingattheTopoftheGlobalAgenda 599
EvaJane´-Llopis,PeterAnderson,andHelenHerrman
19 HowcanSubjectiveWellbeingbeImproved? 611
JohnF.Helliwell
Index 633
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