Overview
- Discusses well-being from the perspective of children and adolescents across 15 global sites
- Based on a global study sponsored by the International School Psychology Association
- Examines individual and sociocultural risk and protective factors
- Explores issues within the context of international child rights
- Examines implications of research findings for mental health practices?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Child and adolescent well-being in Brazil
- Child and adolescent well-being in Chandigarh, India
- Child and adolescent well-being in Estonia
- Child and adolescent well-being in Greece
- Child and adolescent well-being in Italy
- Child and adolescent well-being in Mexico
- Child and adolescent well-being in Mumbai, India
- Child and adolescent well-being in Puerto Rico
- Child and adolescent well-being in Romania
- Child and adolescent well-being in Russia (Samara)
- Child and adolescent well-being in Slovakia
- Child and adolescent well-being in Sri Lanka
- Child and adolescent well-being in Tanzania, East Africa
- Child well-being among African Americans in New Orleans
- Child well-being among Chinese Americans in Boston
- International School Psychology Association
- International child rights
- Psychological well-being in children and adolescents
- UN Convention on the Rights of Children
- World Health Organization and children’s rights
About this book
This handbook addresses universal developmental and cultural factors contributing to child and adolescent mental health and well-being across the globe. It examines sociocultural contexts of development and identifies children's and adolescents' perspectives as critical to understanding and promoting their psychological well-being. It details the Promoting Psychological Well-Being Globally project’s methodology for data collection and analysis, provides cross-cultural analyses of its findings, and offers a practical model for clinicians and other professionals seeking to apply this knowledge to real-life settings.
Featured topics include:
- Sexual health, gender roles, and psychological well-being in India.
- Psychological well-being as a new educational boundary in Italy.
- Mapping psychological well-being in Romania.
- Youth perspectives on contributing factors to psychological well-being in Sri Lanka.
- Culturally specific res
The International Handbook of Psychological Well-Being in Children and Adolescents: Bridging the Gaps Between Theory, Research, and Practice is an invaluable resources for researchers, clinicians, scientist-practitioners, and graduate students in child and school psychology, social work, public health, positive psychology, educational policy and politics, and maternal and child health.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bonnie Kaul Nastasi, Ph.D. (Kent State University, 1986, School Psychology & Early Childhood Education), is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, School of Science and Engineering, at Tulane University, and co-directs the Trauma Specialization in School Psychology at Tulane. Dr. Nastasi’s research focuses on the use of mixed methods designs to develop and evaluate culturally appropriate assessment and intervention approaches for promoting mental health and reducing health risks such as sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV, both within the US and internationally. She directed a multi-country study of psychological well-being of children and adolescents with research partners in 12 countries from 2008-2013, which forms the basis of this book. She has worked in Sri Lanka since 1995 on development of school-based programs to promote psychological well-being and conducted programming in the Southern province of Sri Lanka following the December 2004 tsunami. She
was one of the principal investigators of an interdisciplinary public health research program to prevent STIs among married men and women living in the slums of Mumbai, India, from 2002-2013. She is active in promotion of child rights and social justice within the profession of school psychology and has directed the development of a curriculum for training school psychologists internationally on child rights, a joint effort of International School Psychology Association (ISPA), International Institute of Child Rights & Development (IICRD), Division 16 of the American Psychological Association (APA), and Tulane University’s School Psychology Program. Dr. Nastasi is an Associate of the IICRD since 2011; a past-president of APA’s Division 16; 2013-2014 Co-Chair of APA’s Committee on International Relations in Psychology; Chair of ISPA’s Professional Development and Practices Committee; and President-elect of ISPA.Amanda P. Borja, M. S.
(Tulane University, Ps
ychology, 2012; Mercy College, Urban Education, 2007), is a School Psychology doctoral candidate at Tulane University. She received her B. A. from Binghamton University in 2005, and was a special education teacher in New York City for four years. Her research interests have focused on phenomenology about stress, coping, and psychological well-being among teachers and children in international contexts. Her work has contributed to the continued development, analysis of local and cross-site data, and dissemination of Dr. Nastasi’s Promoting Psychological Well-Being Globally project.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Handbook of Psychological Well-Being in Children and Adolescents
Book Subtitle: Bridging the Gaps Between Theory, Research, and Practice
Editors: Bonnie Kaul Nastasi, Amanda P. Borja
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2833-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-2832-3
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4486-6
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2833-0
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 336
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Social Work, Positive Psychology, Educational Policy and Politics, Maternal and Child Health