Translational Practice-Based Methodological Model for Health and Wellness in COVID-19 Times

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 114-124
Author(s):  
Valerie Ross ◽  
Abid Amir
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Art Research

The COVID-19 pandemic has fueled interdisciplinary research and innovation in institutions of higher learning to combat rising physical and mental health issues. A robust research methodology is the foundation and quintessence of quality research output. As innovation assumes increasing prominence in translational science-art research, the process of interdisciplinarity within the research design itself is of growing interest but lesser known. This paper extrapolates the crafting of a Translational Practice-based Methodological model of interdisciplinary research to promote health and wellness. Multimethodologies comprising practice-based approach, user-centred design and design thinking strategies inform the model design. Central to the model is the ‘User’ and the innovative artefact of research flanked by considerations of sustainable development goals, theoretical framework, assimilating methodologies and applying translational practice.

Integrating Health and Wellness in Mental Health Counseling: Clinical, Educational, and Policy Implications

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sejal Barden ◽  
Abigail Conley ◽  
Mark Young
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Counselor Training ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Mental Health Counselors ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Counselor Preparation ◽  
Health Counseling ◽  
Mental Health Profession

Few counselor training programs offer wellness courses or training on how to ethically and competently integrate physical and mental health issues when working with clients. This article highlights the interrelatedness of mental and physical health to build on the counseling profession's own tradition of wellness and to encourage mental health counselors and counselor educators to adapt to changes in integrated healthcare. We propose that the mental health profession adopt competencies for wellness as part of standard counselor preparation and continuing education.

scholarly journals Limits and benefits of participatory agenda setting for research and innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Niklas Gudowsky
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Social Shaping ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Current Governance

AbstractCurrent governance of science, technology and innovation (STI) faces tough challenges to meet demands arising from complex issues such as societal challenges or targets, e.g. the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. For decades, scholars and civil society institutions have called for increased public participation in STI, and political institutions have been taking up the request to integrate engagement activities into their decision-making processes, at least in the form of consultations. Moving engagement in research and development further upstream makes early interventions and social shaping of technologies and innovation possible. Since research has also faced repeated requests towards taking on more responsibility for solving societal problems, engagement processes thus help in shaping research. Here, the earliest point for possible engagement can be found within the constituting phase of research agendas as topics, general lines of enquiry and targets are shaped in this phase. These are the boundaries in between which researchers later navigate. This article serves as introduction to this journal’s topical collection on participatory agenda setting for research and innovation (PASE). It provides a review of the literature on theory and practice of PASE activities, summarises the topical collection’s contributions regarding current international cases and analyses respective PASE limits and benefits, thereby promoting its conceptual and practical understanding.

Achieving the SDGs through interdisciplinary research in global health

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (8) ◽  
pp. 793-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sibylle L Herzig Van Wees ◽  
Mats Målqvist ◽  
Rachel Irwin
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Global Health Research ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
New Research

The Swedish Global Health Research Conference held in Stockholm, 18–19 April 2018, convened researchers from across Sweden’s universities to foster collaboration and new research. In response to the theme of the conference, How can Sweden contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals? From research to action, many of the plenary and keynote speakers highlighted the importance of interdisciplinary research and teaching. This commentary draws upon a workshop discussing interdisciplinarity, which took place at the conference. Participants included senior professors, lecturers, students and collaborators from the private sector and civil society and we discussed the conceptual and structural challenges that prevent engagement in interdisciplinary research. Although the workshop focused on the Swedish context, issues will be familiar to researchers working outside of Sweden. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals highlight the grand challenges for global society and are intertwined, with progress in one affecting progress in all others. With this starting point, we argue that interdisciplinary research is the way to achieve them. Accordingly, we need to overcome the conceptual and structural challenges that can hinder it. We therefore argue for a paradigm shift of how we value knowledge. We also call for fundamental changes in external and internal (university-level) funding structures, and for the strengthening of interdisciplinary global health teaching.

scholarly journals Research on Curriculum Reform of Local Undergraduate Universities under the Background of Transformation and Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Yan Ma
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Innovative Strategy ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Continuous Innovation ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Social Positioning ◽  
Development Goals

<p>In the era of continuous innovation of higher education, in view of the social positioning of various institutions of higher learning, the role and responsibility of the differentiation, so the local ordinary undergraduate colleges and universities have regional characteristics. To strengthen the innovation of the local ordinary undergraduate course colleges and universities, higher education can shift focus to cultivate applying professional knowledge and skills to do a special talent of professional social practice and students can use their own technology in the working practice and ability for practical talents. This is our country's higher education system on the level and type of the main development goals. The transformation and development of local undergraduate universities should be carried out from theory to practice. This paper tries to explore the reform and innovation in teaching curriculum from the innovative strategy of local universities.</p>

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