Overview
- Comprehensively discusses the themes of health, healing and treatment in different cultural contexts
- Discusses health and wellbeing from both behavioural and social science perspectives
- Is one of the few books to analyse the notions of health, illness, rehabilitation, and wellbeing from non-Western perspectives
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About this book
This volume provides multifaceted and multidisciplinary insights into the growing field of health studies. Providing inputs from the behavioural sciences as well as social sciences, it discusses the issues of recovery from illness, and growth and wellbeing, as situated in social and eco-cultural contexts, and addresses the modalities of health-related interventions in diverse contexts. The specific themes taken up by the contributors are post-trauma growth, resilience, gender and health, distress and wellness, indigenous healing, counselling and psychotherapy, disability-related interventions, self-healing, as well as health issues of special groups like adolescents and the elderly, cancer patients and those suffering from other chronic illnesses.
Till recently, the medical model has prevailed as the chief form of understanding health and illness. This has led to marginalization of the context, localization of all health and wellness components within the individual, and to biological reductionism. The contributions to this volume propose corrective measures and provide diverse approaches in a balanced manner. This volume is useful for researchers and practitioners interested in health studies, including the behavioural sciences, social work, medical anthropology, and public health.
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Keywords
- Community mental health care
- Counselling and psychotherapy
- Disability-related interventions
- Health and well-being among elderly
- Health interventions for cancer patients
- Health studies
- Illness, health and culture
- Indigenous healing practices in India
- Interventions for ADHD
- Mental health and well-being
- Recovery from illness
- Understanding resilience
Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Conceptual Foundations
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Interventions Across the Life Span
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Cultural Perspectives on Intervention
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Girishwar Misra is Vice-Chancellor of Wardha University, Gujarat, India. He was previously professor of psychology at the University of Delhi and is the special issue editor of the journal Psychological Studies (Springer).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychosocial Interventions for Health and Well-Being
Editors: Girishwar Misra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3782-2
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer (India) Pvt. Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-3780-8Published: 14 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-3936-9Published: 25 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-3782-2Published: 27 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 368
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention