Overview
- Covers an important issue and offers an innovative view on child well-being
- Makes clear how a disaster like the Tsunami in 2004 poses completely different questions
- Shows that concepts such as resilience, well-being and quality of life can only be understood against the social and ecological context of the children and caregivers concerned
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research (BRIEFSWELLBEING)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- Caregivers’ Perspectives
- Child Well-Being Against the Background of Culture
- Child Well-Being Index
- Child Well-Being Indices from Children’s Points of View
- Children’s Perspectives
- Contextualized Child Well-Being Indicators
- Culture and Child Well-Being
- Evidence-based National Composite Well-Being Indices
- Grounded Theory
- Indian Ocean Tsunami Disaster
- Origin of the Social Indicator Movement
- Rural Subsistence-based Environment
- Theoretical Model Towards Child Well-Being
- Trends on Child Well-Being Measurements
- Urban Western Environment
- Well-Being, Quality of Life and Resilience
- maternal and child health
About this book
This book explores the broad view on child well-being and the quality of life research. It starts with a discussion of the origin of the social indicator movement and a review of literature on the concepts of quality of life, (subjective) well-being and resilience. It then discusses the force of culture on child development, and shows how two prototypical environments favor either the independent or interdependent self-model. After an exploration of the shifts and changes in the child well-being indicator movement and trends of child well-being measurements, the book turns to research on Tsunami-affected children. The first part of the study gives these children and their caregivers a voice, formulating in their words what constitutes child well-being for them in the given circumstances. The concepts provided are processed in detail, contrasted, and then made into indicators. The second part of the study describes the introduction of a child well-being index based on these indicators. The book ends with four main conclusions reflected in a theoretical model of contextualized child well-being indicators.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Silvia Exenberger is Dr. rer. nat. in Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Clinical and health psychologist. She is presently employed as external lecturer at the Department of Psychology and Research and Development advisor at SOS Children’s Villages International. She was previously awarded with a funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme, Marie Curie Actions, International Outgoing Fellowships where she held a post-doctoral position. For two years she lived in India where she carried out a research project on long-term effects of trauma in children after the Indian Ocean Tsunami and the children’s well-being. Her research interests are in the field of clinical psychology with a focus on traumatology, and positive psychology focusing on (child) well-being, quality of life and resilience.
Barbara Juen is Ao. Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Clinical and health psychologist, Head of Psychosocial Services at the Austrian Red Cross, Scientific Advisor of the European Network for Psychosocial Support and the IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support. Her research interests are acute traumatization and psychotraumatology. Her work focus is clinical psychology, emergency psychology and crisis intervention.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Well-Being, Resilience and Quality of Life from Children’s Perspectives
Book Subtitle: A Contextualized Approach
Authors: Silvia Exenberger, Barbara Juen
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7519-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7518-3Published: 17 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7519-0Published: 04 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-7644
Series E-ISSN: 2211-7652
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 71
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Maternal and Child Health, Child and School Psychology, Community and Environmental Psychology