Broadening the Scope of Wellbeing Science

This book brings together leading researchers on wellbeing science to provide a multidisciplinary approach to psychological wellbeing with implications for the interconnected societal challenges we face today, including loneliness, neoliberalism, inequality and anthropogenic climate change. Its authors present new and innovative models for understanding, building and improving our understanding of the complex construct of wellbeing. The capacity for individual positive change is explored, as well as the scope for such change to impact on the communities and environments within which we live. Further, the book places individual wellbeing within a broader context that also addresses societal needs and challenges. In doing so, it provides a novel synthesis of individual, societal and environmental perspectives on wellbeing and human flourishing.
In the face of an urgent need to build stronger, sustainable and more resilient communities, this book demonstrates how wellbeing science can link the individual with the community through appropriate health and wellbeing policies and offers a guide to a new way for individuals to connect with the world. It will appeal to researchers and professionals working across the fields of psychology, environmental science, public health and public policy.

1. An Introduction to the Complex Construct of Wellbeing, Societal Challenges and Potential Solutions. - 2. Shifting the Paradigm of Positive Psychology: Toward an Existential Positive Psychology of Wellbeing. - 3. Beyond Us: Building Collective Wellbeing. - 4. Towards a Culture of Care for Societal Wellbeing: A Perspective from the Healthcare Sector. - 5. ACTing for Society: The Promotion and Nurturance of Prosocial Behaviour

at Scale. - 6. The Relationship Between Nature Connectedness and Human and Planetary Wellbeing: Implications for Promoting Wellbeing, Tackling Anthropogenic Climate Change and Overcoming Biodiversity Loss. - 7. A Modern Framework of Wellbeing from the Perspective of Positive Environments. - 8. A Public Health Perspective on Wellbeing. - 9. The Economics of Individual Wellbeing and the Transformation of Society. - 10. Social and Material Foundations of Wellbeing: Beyond the Neoliberal Model of Development. - 11. Discussion: Broadening the Scope of Wellbeing Science.