Promoting Well-Being: Linking Personal, Organizational, and Community Change

ISBN-13: 9780471719267 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 416 str.

Isaac Prilleltensky; Dr Ora Prilleltensky

Opis

The only book that links psychological wellness with organizational and community health, Promoting Well-Being provides you with important insight into how these domains interact as well as strategies for helping clients harness the benefits of these interactions. It is an essential tool for psychologists, counselors, social workers, human service professionals, public health professionals, and students in these fields.

Spis treści

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

PART I: APPING WELL–BEING.

1. Webs of Wellness: The Sites of Well–Being.

2. Webs of Growth: the SPEC of Well–Being.

3. Webs of Values: The Morals of Well–Being.

4. Webs of Strategies: The Practice of Well–Being.

PART II: PERSONAL WELL–BEING.

5. What is It? Signs of Personal Well—being.

6. Where Does It Come From? Sources of Personal Well–Being.

7. How to Promote It? Strategies for Personal Well–Being.

PART III: ORGIATIONAL WELL–BEING.

8. What Is It? Signs of Organizational Well–Being.

9. Where Does It Come From? Sources of Organizational Well–Being.

10. How to Promote It? Strategies for Organizational Well–Being.

11. What Is It? Signs of Community Well–Being.

12. Where Does It Come From? Sources of Community Well–Being.

13. How to Promote It? Strategies for Community Well–Being.

PART V: CHALLENGS AND CONCLUSIONS.

14. Disability.

15. Injustice.

16. Arrogance, Complacency, and Blinders.

17. Conclusions.

References.

Author Index.

Subject Index.

O autorze

ISAAC PRILLELTENSKY, PhD, is Dean, School of Education at University of Miami, Florida.

ORA PRILLELTENSKY, EdD, is Lecturer, Department of Educational Psychological Studies at University of Miami, Florida. She has worked in a number of applied settings, including schools, counseling services, and rehabilitation programs.

Blurb

The only book that links psychological wellness with organizational and community health

"This book is a historically significant and unique contribution to understanding and enhancing positive human development. Based on the presence and integration of strengths in individuals, institutions, and communities, the Prilleltenskys provide a compelling, dynamic, and singularly creative vision for promoting health and well–being among all people."
Richard M. Lerner, PhD, Tufts University

"Whether as educators, students, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, advocates, or activists, this book provides an extremely useful framework for all of us to attempt this to the best of our ability and circumstances."
Dr Iain Butterworth, Fulbright Scholar, Senior LecturerSchool of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Australia

"Vision, values, and action for individual, group/organization, and community development is the message of this important book. The emphasis on moving theory to active practice particularly impressed me. This book is strong in its respect for the individual, diversity, and social justice."
Allen E. Ivey, EdD, ABPP, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Isaac and Ora Prilleltensky have spent many years studying wellness and well–being from a community perspective, and have practiced in a variety of settings where wellness is emphasized. Promoting Well–Being builds on their knowledge base to connect treatment with prevention, counseling with advocacy, and personal change with community change and social justice. This resource is unique in showing how these areas can work in unison to enhance the well–being of individuals and the community alike.

Addressing challenges such as disability, injustice, arrogance, and complacency, and using visual tools, including charts and diagrams, case studies, innovative exercises, and engaging prose, the authors provide readers with important insight into how these domains interact as well as strategies for helping clients harness the benefits of these interactions. Promoting Well–Being is an essential tool for psychologists, counselors, social workers, human service professionals, public health professionals, and students in these fields.