Overview
- Discusses the theme of child well-being from a Latin American perspective
- Presents research from the point of view of children
- Highlights interventions on health promotion prevention for children and adolescents in Latin America
Part of the book series: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research (CHIR, volume 16)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Aspects Related to Children’s Well-Being
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Intervention on Children Psychosocial Well-Being
Keywords
- Well-Being Indicators
- spirituality and well-being
- well-being in residential care centers
- neighbourhood and housing
- meaning and social contexts of child well-being
- fatherhood in adolescence
- psychosocial well-being
- environmental psychology and child well-being
- child well-being interventions
- child well-being in latin america
- leisure and technology
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Lívia Maria Bedin is a Professor of Psychology and member of the Research Group in Community Psychology (GPPC) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS/Brazil). Dr. Bedin was a post-doctoral fellow at the Research Institute for Quality of Life in the University of Girona (Spain), and is a board member of the International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI), participating for the last 8 years in international research projects, such as the International Survey of Children’s Well-Being (ISCWeB), and the Trans-Latin Project for the Study of Well-Being in Adolescence (PROTEBA). Dr. Bedin holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and a M.Sc. in Psychology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), and was a visiting researcher at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Dr. Bedin’s research interests include well-being and quality of life, childhood and adolescence, adolescents-parents relationships, research methodology, multivariate statistical analyses and structural equation modelling.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychosocial Well-being of Children and Adolescents in Latin America
Book Subtitle: Evidence-based Interventions
Editors: Jorge Castellá Sarriera, Lívia Maria Bedin
Series Title: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55601-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55600-0Published: 16 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85705-3Published: 08 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55601-7Published: 07 May 2017
Series ISSN: 1879-5196
Series E-ISSN: 1879-520X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 339
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Child Well-being, Positive Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Developmental Psychology