Perspectives on Wellbeing: Applications from the Field

This volume provides an exciting introduction to social wellbeing and different epistemological standpoints. Targeted at researchers, students, academics, policy makers, practitioners and activists, the volume allows stakeholders to collectively problematise and address marginalised populations’ social wellbeing, providing perspectives and applications from various disciplines such as education, health, public policy and social welfare. Chapters continue to debate social wellbeing within their disciplines, and challenges practitioners’ and researchers’ experience, particularly interactions between individual and social aspects of wellbeing. Contributors provide practical and academic discussions, drawing upon different cultural, historical, political and social paradigms, putting forward available empirical data.

Contributors are: Andrew Azzopardi, Amanda Bezzina, Trevor Calafato, Joanne Cassar, Marlene Cauchi, Carmel Cefai, Marilyn Clark, Maureen Cole, Katya De Giovanni, Melanie E. Demarco, Andreana Dibben, Ruth Falzon, Marvin Formosa, Natalie Kenely, Dione Mifsud, Brenda Murphy, Claudia Psaila, Sandra Scicluna, Anabel Scolaro, Miriam Teuma, Anna Maria Vella, Sue Vella and Carla Willing,

Andrew Azzopardi, Ed.D. (2005), University of Malta, Associate Professor, Dean, Faculty for Social Wellbeing. Lecturing and research focus include inclusive education, sociology, critical pedagogy, disability politics, youth and community studies. He believes that democratisation of knowledge is fundamental.

Marilyn Clark, Ph.D. (1999), is Associate Professor with the Department of Psychology. She is a social psychologist, and has a particular interest in addiction, criminal careers, victimization and the safety of journalists. She has published extensively in international fora.

Ruth Falzon, Ph.D. (2016), University of Malta, is a Department of Counselling founding member. She has published on wellbeing, school counselling and Specific Learning Difficulties, including a chapter in the International Handbook for Policy Research on School-based Counseling (Springer, 2017).