This volume offers a critical rethinking of the construct of youth wellbeing, stepping back from taken-for-granted and psychologically inflected understandings. Wellbeing has become a catchphrase in educational, health and social care policies internationally, informing a range of school programs and social interventions and increasingly shaping everyday understandings of young people. Drawing on research by established and emerging scholars in Australia, Singapore and the UK, the book critically examines the myriad effects of dominant discourses of wellbeing on the one hand, and the social and cultural dimensions of wellbeing on the other. From diverse methodological and theoretical perspectives, it explores how notions of wellbeing have been mobilized across time and space, in and out of school contexts, and the different inflections and effects of wellbeing discourses are having in education, transnationally and comparatively. The book offers researchers as well as practitioners new perspectives on current approaches to student wellbeing in schools and novel ways of thinking about the wellbeing of young people beyond educational settings.

'Saving the Modern Soul' explores the impact of therapeutic discourse on our lives & on our contemporary notions of identity. Eva Illouz examines how self-help culture has transformed emotional life & how therapy complicates individuals' lives even as it claims to dissect their emotional experiences.

New developments in positive psychology have evolved into the 2nd and 3rd waves, going beyond the individual and positive focus towards complex systems, multi-cultures, and the existential positive psychology of transcending suffering. The present project aims at developing a general theory of well-being that integrates all the above changes as the new frontier of positive psychology. At a time when humanity is threatened by all kinds of existential crises, from climate change to nuclear war, from ideological polarization to a widening income gap, we need to develop a big-picture theoretical framework showing that happiness is not just for those living in peace and prosperity, but also for those struggling in dire poverty and war-ravaged countries like Ukraine, not just for the self, but also for others, not just for the present, but also for future generations. This broader approach towards wellbeing opens up new vistas for research and interventions.

A must-read for anyone seeking emotional well-being in our precarious world. -Jack Canfield, NY Times Bestselling Series Chicken Soup For The SoulA modern self-help book with the tools to show you how to heal yourself naturally. Have you spent years in therapy, on meds, or both but not much has changed? Or maybe they just haven't been enough. . . If this is you, it may be time to Rethink Your Shrink. In this upbeat and out-of-the-box self-help guide, clinical psychologist Dr. Sam Von Reiche brings you TEN of the best proven treatments and strategies beyond talk therapy and meds to heal depression, anxiety, insomnia, food addiction, improve ADD and ADHD and so much more. Chock-full of inspiring stories, including Dr. Sam's own rocky road from struggle to straight-up happiness, Rethink Your Shrink is a mental health guidebook to finding peace in pandemic times and the years ahead. Rethink Your Shrink will give you all the tools you need to achieve optimal mental health for life and be your best self: -Effective and proven treatments you've likely never heard of -Simple self-healing strategies to change your life without professional help -Learn if your physical health is the culprit behind your depression and anxiety and what to do about it Dr. Sam Von Reiche is a clinical psychologist, media expert and founder of the Center for Transformation, a holistic psychotherapy center in Ridgewood, NJ. A Magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, Dr. Sam is known for her innovative and inspiring approach to therapy and her charismatic style. She has been featured on NBC, Fox-5 and Huffpost Live and has written numerous articles for magazines and other publications. You can find out more about Dr. Sam and the Center for Transformation at www.drsamvonreiche.com or call them at 201-556-8210. nstead of a lifelong prescription of side effect-ridden psychiatric medications and endless talk therapy, Dr. Sam offers real solutions to have you feeling like your best self. I love how instead of giving us a dry list of facts on the subject, Dr. Sam knows how to truly connect with her readers on a personal level, and uses her authentic and witty style, along with her personal story, to keep you engaged. - Dr. Isabella Wentz, Pharm D., NY Times #1 Bestseller Hashimoto's ProtocolDr. Sam Von Reiche is like Copernicus, suggesting that Earth is not the center of the universe. To get humankind out of thinking in the old earth-centered way took hundreds of years. To get yourself out of thinking in the old mind-body way takes only reading her extraordinary self-help guide.- Richard Shames, MD. Author, Thyroid Power: Ten Steps to Total Health

Redefining Well-Being in Nations and Organizations is an essential book for researchers, policy makers and managers. It provides a new multi-disciplinary perspective on wellbeing and engagement, reviewing the latest research from several previously unrelated disciplines to develop a process for active committed enthusiasm (PACE), encompassing theory and clarifying the definitions of, and relationships between, wellbeing, engagement and related concepts. PACE allows researchers to model causal relationships, and policy makers and managers to analyze the potential impact of possible interventions. It demonstrates that, as nations, organizations and individuals fulfil their basic material needs, the impact of individual optimism, and other aspects of positive psychology, become paramount in maximizing wellbeing and engagement.

As climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessimism and distress are overwhelming people the world over. In this maelstrom of emotion, solastalgia, the homesickness you have when you are still at home, has become, writes Glenn A. Albrecht, one of the defining emotions of the twenty-first century. Earth Emotions examines our positive and negative Earth emotions. It explains the author's concept of solastalgia and other well-known eco-emotions such as biophilia and topophilia. Albrecht introduces us to the many new words needed to describe the full range of our emotional responses to the emergent state of the world. We need this creation of a hopeful vocabulary of positive emotions, argues Albrecht, so that we can extract ourselves out of environmental desolation and reignite our millennia-old biophilia—love of life—for our home planet. To do so, he proposes a dramatic change from the current human-dominated Anthropocene era to one that will be founded, materially, ethically, politically, and spiritually on the revolution in thinking being delivered by contemporary symbiotic science. Albrecht names this period the Symbiocene. With the current and coming generations, "Generation Symbiocene," Albrecht sees reason for optimism. The battle between the forces of destruction and the forces of creation will be won by Generation Symbiocene, and Earth Emotions presents an ethical and emotional odyssey for that victory.

A remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual. From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poems of Healing gathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donne’s “Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse” and Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul has Bandaged moments” to Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic,” from W.H. Auden’s “Miss Gee” to Lucille Clifton’s “Cancer,” and from D.H. Lawrence’s “The Ship of Death” to Rafael Campo’s “Antidote” and Seamus Heaney’s “Miracle.” Here are poems from around the world, by Sappho, Milton, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Cavafy, and Omar Khayyam; by Stevens, Lowell, and Plath; by Zbigniew Herbert, Louise Bogan, Yehuda Amichai, Mark Strand, and Natalia Toledo. Messages of hope in the midst of pain—in such moving poems as Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” George Herbert’s “The Flower,” Wisława Szymborska’s “The End and the Beginning,” Gwendolyn Brooks’ “when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story” and Stevie Smith’s “Away, Melancholy”—make this the perfect gift to accompany anyone on a journey of healing. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.