scholarly journals A holistic approach to campus well-being: Steps to Leaps at Purdue University

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth McCuskey ◽  
Fanyi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Purdue University

scholarly journals The Concept of Well-being in Organisational Reality

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dariusz Danilewicz
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Well Being

The well-being concept refers to other similar concepts related to people’s physical, mental, emotional and intellectual well-being. In broader terms, in addition to internal dimensions, it must include external dimensions as well. In discussing the concept of wellbeing, it is worth using a holistic approach – implementing this approach in practice allows for achieving measurable organisational effects.

scholarly journals An Integrated Approach to Deal with Mental Health Issues of Children and Adolescent during COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mousumi Sethy ◽  
Reshmi Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Children And Adolescent ◽  
Mental Health Issues

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has left few countries untouched. It is a far-reaching implication on humankind, with children and adolescents, being no exception. Although the prevalence and fatality are negligible among children, a possible impact on their psychological and mental health cannot be disregarded. The unprecedented change in the way of living is bound to be having some psychological consequences on children and adolescents. The experiences gathered in childhood and adolescence are known to contribute to shaping the physical, emotional, and social well-being in adult life. Children are highly susceptible to environmental stressors. The present situation has the potential of adversely affecting the physical and mental well-being of children. To save the children from the long term consequences of this pandemic, a holistic approach integrating biological, psychological, social and spiritual methods of enhancing mental health have become essential. A concerted effort of government, Non Government Organisations (NGOs), parents, teachers, schools, psychologists, counselors and physicians are required to deal with the mental health issues of children and adolescents. This paper discusses the possible role of these agencies in the holistic intervention of this crisis.

Psychologist, 2 years’ experience, USA; Psychologist, 5 years’ experience, USA

2020 ◽  
pp. 122-125
Author(s):  
Markus Reuber ◽  
Gregg H. Rawlings ◽  
Steven C. Schachter
Keyword(s):  
Epileptic Seizures ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Definitive Diagnosis ◽  
Adolescent And Young Adult ◽  
Frontal Lobe Epilepsy ◽  
Compelling Evidence ◽  
Caucasian Female ◽  
Video Eeg

This chapter presents a case with compelling evidence for frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) and Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES) to address the difficulties providers encounter in helping families receive a definitive diagnosis and eventual path forward. The patient in question was a teenage Caucasian female seeking a third opinion for paroxysmal events. Her father had requested an evaluation to rule out epilepsy after having been told twice before that his daughter’s episodes were likely to be psychogenic in nature. Evidence subsequently obtained over the course of her three-day video-EEG hospitalization provided support for both epilepsy and PNES. The chapter then argues that every adolescent and young adult with epilepsy would benefit from a holistic approach to seizure management, one that takes into account the patient’s quality of life, psychosocial well-being, and relationship with school, family, and friends.

An Ecological Systems Framework for Professional Resilience in Social Work Practice

Social Work ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason M Newell
Keyword(s):  
Self Care ◽  
Preventive Measure ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
Systems Framework

Abstract The cumulative effects of chronic work-related stress pervasively and persistently affect the well-being of the human services workforce. As a preventive measure, the ongoing commitment to self-care strategies and resources is essential in maintaining a healthy and resilient professional quality of life. This article describes a holistic approach to cultivating professional resilience through the ongoing practice of self-care. A model for self-care using an ecological systems framework with activities across the biological, interpersonal, organizational, familial, peer-related, spiritual, and recreational aspects of the biopsychosocial self is proposed. Within this model, emphasis is placed on the role of compassion satisfaction and vicarious resilience as key components to fostering meaningful and rewarding careers for social workers.

scholarly journals Patients’ experiences with the advanced practice nurse role in Swiss family practices: a qualitative study

BMC Nursing ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Schönenberger ◽  
Beat Sottas ◽  
Christoph Merlo ◽  
Stefan Essig ◽  
Stefan Gysin
Keyword(s):  
Patient Perspective ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Advanced Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Practice Nurses ◽  
Family Practices

Abstract Background Considering shortages of general practitioners (GP) and strategies for improving the quality of health care provision, many countries have implemented interprofessional care models with advanced practice nurses (APN). International evidence suggests that APN care results in high patient satisfaction. In Switzerland, the role is still new, and the patient perspective has not yet been researched. Our aim was therefore to explore patients’ experiences with the APN role in Swiss family practices. Methods We conducted 22 semi-structured interviews in four different family practices with patients aged 18 to 97 suffering from minor acute to multiple chronic diseases, and who had at least one consultation with an APN. All interviews were audiotaped, transcribed verbatim, and analysed using qualitative content analysis. Results The analysis resulted in five themes: Despite the unfamiliarity, all patients were willing to be consulted by an APN because it was recommended by their GP (1); after several encounters, most participants perceived differences between the APN and the GP consultation in terms of the length and style of the consultations as well as the complexity of their tasks (2); the interviewees emphasised coaching, guidance, care coordination, and GP-assisting tasks as APN core competencies and attributed the characteristics empathetic, trustworthy, and competent to the APN role (3); most patients especially valued home visits and the holistic approach of the APNs, but they also noticed that in certain cases GP supervision was required (4); and due to the close collaboration between the APN and the GP, patients felt safe, well cared for and experienced improvements in physical and psychological well-being as well as in daily activities (5). Conclusion Our results suggested that patients value the APNs’ competencies, despite their initial lack of role knowledge. Trust in the GP seemed to be the most important factor for patients’ receptiveness toward the APN role. Overall, patients perceived an added value due to the enlargement of the scope of practice offered by APNs. The patient perspective might provide valuable insights for further APN role implementation in Swiss family practices.

scholarly journals A need for holistic approach to the occupational health developing (in Serbia)

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirjana Arandjelovic
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
World Health ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
The Road ◽  
Countries In Transition ◽  
Health Organization

AbstractCountries in transition, such as Serbia, have been going through obligatory system reforms, including the reform of the healthcare system. As a rule, occupational health becomes marginalized by the authorities who decide on medical care. In spite of the fact that this branch of medicine cares for working population that mostly carries the burden of transition, when material situation equals the existential minimum, its potentials are not recognized. On the other hand, the World Health Organization makes a remark that such population’s health is undermined now more than ever, and adopts a binding global plan for member countries and their experts in occupational health to take urgent measures for overall working people’s health according to their needs. It seems that former work method of biomedicine specialists could not realize such ambition. This paper discusses the possibilities of occupational health future orientation toward holistic medicine, for the sake of workers’ well-being and better quality of their lives, then creation of more humane society and vocational affirmation. Health promotion at workplace and salutogenic concept may have crucial roles. This concept is a huge challenge for academic public and vocational practitioners in poor countries in transition that are already burdened with the current economic and financial crisis. Each in their own way, helped by self-education and education, without big material investments, together they may take their countries to the road of health, the road still rarely taken, yet more secure.

scholarly journals Patient outcomes after hospitalisation with COVID-19 and implications for follow-up: results from a prospective UK cohort

Thorax ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. thoraxjnl-2020-216086
Author(s):  
David T Arnold ◽  
Fergus W Hamilton ◽  
Alice Milne ◽  
Anna J Morley ◽  
Jason Viner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Acute Infection ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Supplementary Oxygen ◽  
Exercise Tests ◽  
Persistent Symptoms ◽  
Blood Tests ◽  
Clinically Significant

The longer-term consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection are uncertain. Consecutive patients hospitalised with COVID-19 were prospectively recruited to this observational study (n=163). At 8–12 weeks postadmission, survivors were invited to a systematic clinical follow-up. Of 131 participants, 110 attended the follow-up clinic. Most (74%) had persistent symptoms (notably breathlessness and excessive fatigue) and limitations in reported physical ability. However, clinically significant abnormalities in chest radiograph, exercise tests, blood tests and spirometry were less frequent (35%), especially in patients not requiring supplementary oxygen during their acute infection (7%). Results suggest that a holistic approach focusing on rehabilitation and general well-being is paramount.

Taking responsibility: Geo-societal studies of alternative futures

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bohle ◽  
Martin Kowarsch
Keyword(s):  
Human Perception ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
Integrated Assessments ◽  
Geoscience Research

<p>Societies deploy technologies and infrastructures to interact with natural systems – for which geoscience expertise is key, including understanding changes due to unsustainable human practices. Despite its geoscience basis, however, human interaction with natural systems primarily is an economic, social and cultural endeavour about a desirable human niche. Depending on the ‘political spin’ of given actors – stewardship or engineering, for example – a geo-societal narrative is created when shaping the global human niche. These narratives explain how a given technology or infrastructure shall support production, consumption and societal well-being, as well as societal change and environmental alteration. Relatedly, as highlighted by the geoethics approach [*], geoscience research has ethical, social and cultural implications – for example, in terms of explanatory narratives. Led by climate research, contemporary Earth System Science illustrates that anthropogenic global change is as much a socio-cultural than a science theme <sup>1–3</sup>, which cannot be neatly disconnected.</p><p>Because the science and the socio-cultural spheres are so inevitably intermingled, a holistic approach to geoscience is required, e.g. when it comes to the future of humankind. Applying the ethical concept of responsibility for future generations (intergenerational justice), the geoscience community should engage with studying pathways to possible futures; that is: to embrace integrated assessments, which are holistic, involving personal and societal concerns, economic and environmental choices as well as philosophical conceptions of the world, human histories and human futures. While some geoscience domains, such as climate sciences, embarked on integrated assessments, others focus on past and present dynamics.  In particular, studies of hydrology, nutrient cycles, soils and natural hazards seem prone to engage with holistic, future-oriented integrated assessments.</p><p>Swift geo-processes such as the rise of the global sea-level are a ‘geological present’. However, human perception sees them shaping ‘a later future’ only – which sometimes blurs people’s sense-making of the present. Therefore, intergenerational justice calls upon geoscientists to engage with studies of possible future configurations of the Earth System; that is, geoscientist should study the networked geo-, bio-, techno- and societal-cultural systems holistically. It would be negligent grounding political governance on a body of expertise that lacks the integration of future-oriented geoscience knowledge with social science and humanities. More specifically, we argue to envisage a highly integrated exploration of alternative future policy pathways <sup>4</sup>. This approach envisages a deliberative learning process about policy alternatives in light of their practical (geoscience and socio-cultural) implications, engaging the potential of geoscience research for humankind.</p><p> [*] http://www.geoethics.org/definition</p><ol><li>Kowarsch, M., Flachsland, C., Garard, J., Jabbour, J. & Riousset, P. The treatment of divergent viewpoints in global environmental assessments. Environ. Sci. Policy <strong>77</strong>, 225–234 (2017).</li> <li>O’Neill, B. C. et al. The roads ahead: Narratives for shared socioeconomic pathways describing world futures in the 21st century. Glob. Environ. Chang. <strong>42</strong>, 169–180 (2017).</li> <li>Schill, C. et al. A more dynamic understanding of human behaviour for the Anthropocene. Nat. Sustain. (2019). doi:10.1038/s41893-019-0419-7</li> <li>Edenhofer, O. & Kowarsch, M. Cartography of pathways: A new model for environmental policy assessments. Environ. Sci. Policy <strong>51</strong>, 56–64 (2015).</li> </ol>

scholarly journals Review Sistematik: Model Pemulihan Penderita Gangguan Jiwa Berat Berbasis Komunitas

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-129
Author(s):  
Retno Lestari ◽  
Ah Yusuf ◽  
Rachmat Hargono ◽  
Febri Endra Budi Setyawan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Severe Mental Illness ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Mental Health Service ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Life Planning

People with severe mental illness have complex disabilities affecting mental functions, daily activities, and social life, thus they need help from others in carrying out daily functional activities. Optimizing the recovery of severe mental illness requires a holistic approach and integration between mental health services and supportive communities so that sufferers can interact with others, have a positive self-concept, and improve their well-being. This study aims to describe a community-based model of recovery for people with severe mental illness. Several literature studies were obtained from 50 reference sources through Science Direct, Google Scholar, Proquest Health and Medical Complete, Proquest Nursing, and Allied Health Sources from 2009 to 2019. Results explain that the community provides an adequate support system in improving the care of people with severe mental illness. Support systems in the community involve social and physical aspects as well as the economic infrastructure through employment opportunities or financial support and a decent living. The interaction between community members and people with severe mental illness could be a positive thing in strengthening the motivation of people with severe mental illness to recover and be able to do their activities independently. The recovery process of severe mental illness requires strong motivation and commitment from the sufferer, the family, all society members, community mental health service team, and related policymakers. It can be concluded that people with severe mental illness need support from various parties in terms of future life planning, identifying strengths and weaknesses that they have, and recognizing multiple obstacles and support so that they recover and live independently.

scholarly journals “If worse comes to worst, my neighbors come first”: social identity as a collective resilience factor in areas threatened by sea floods

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luise M. Erfurth ◽  
Alina S. Hernandez Bark ◽  
Carin Molenaar ◽  
Anna Lisa Aydin ◽  
Rolf van Dick
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Environmental Stress ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Collective Resilience

AbstractResearch on collective resilience processes still lacks a detailed understanding of psychological mechanisms at work when groups cope with adverse conditions, i.e., long-term processes, and how such mechanisms affect physical and mental well-being. As collective resilience will play a crucial part in facing looming climate change-related events such as floods, it is important to investigate these processes further. To this end, this study takes a novel holistic approach by combining resilience research, social psychology, and an archeological perspective to investigate the role of social identity as a collective resilience factor in the past and present. We hypothesize that social identification buffers against the negative effects of environmental threats in participants, which increases somatic symptoms related to stress, in a North Sea region historically prone to floods. A cross-sectional study (N = 182) was conducted to analyze the moderating effects of social identification on the relations between perceived threat of North Sea floods and both well-being and life satisfaction. The results support our hypothesis that social identification attenuates the relationship between threat perception and well-being, such that the relation is weaker for more strongly identified individuals. Contrary to our expectations, we did not find this buffering effect to be present for life satisfaction. Future resilience studies should further explore social identity as a resilience factor and how it operates in reducing environmental stress put on individuals and groups. Further, to help communities living in flood-prone areas better cope with future environmental stress, we recommend implementing interventions strengthening their social identities and hence collective resilience.

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