This interdisciplinary book indicates the need to address well-being from individual, community and social perspectives in an integrated manner. The book complements the harm-based focus of much social scientific research into health. Chapters by a wide range of academics present a new dynamic view of well-being for the Twenty-First Century.

Starting a research project, however large or small, can be a daunting prospect. New researchers can be confronted with a huge number of options not only of topic, but of conceptual underpinning. Psychology also has links with several other disciplines and it is possible to utilize their techniques; the difficulty is quite simply the wide variety of methodological approaches that psychological research embraces.