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      Joining, belonging, and re-valuing: a process of meaning-making through group participation in a mental health lifestyle intervention

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      Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy
      Informa UK Limited

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          Mental illness and well-being: the central importance of positive psychology and recovery approaches

          Mike Slade (2010)
          Background A new evidence base is emerging, which focuses on well-being. This makes it possible for health services to orientate around promoting well-being as well as treating illness, and so to make a reality of the long-standing rhetoric that health is more than the absence of illness. The aim of this paper is to support the re-orientation of health services around promoting well-being. Mental health services are used as an example to illustrate the new knowledge skills which will be needed by health professionals. Discussion New forms of evidence give a triangulated understanding about the promotion of well-being in mental health services. The academic discipline of positive psychology is developing evidence-based interventions to improve well-being. This complements the results emerging from synthesising narratives about recovery from mental illness, which provide ecologically valid insights into the processes by which people experiencing mental illness can develop a purposeful and meaningful life. The implications for health professionals are explored. In relation to working with individuals, more emphasis on the person's own goals and strengths will be needed, with integration of interventions which promote well-being into routine clinical practice. In addition, a more societally-focussed role for professionals is envisaged, in which a central part of the job is to influence local and national policies and practices that impact on well-being. Summary If health services are to give primacy to increasing well-being, rather than to treating illness, then health workers need new approaches to working with individuals. For mental health services, this will involve the incorporation of emerging knowledge from recovery and from positive psychology into education and training for all mental health professionals, and changes to some long-established working practices.
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              To belong is to matter: sense of belonging enhances meaning in life.

              In four methodologically diverse studies (N = 644), we found correlational (Study 1), longitudinal (Study 2), and experimental (Studies 3 and 4) evidence that a sense of belonging predicts how meaningful life is perceived to be. In Study 1 (n = 126), we found a strong positive correlation between sense of belonging and meaningfulness. In Study 2 (n = 248), we found that initial levels of sense of belonging predicted perceived meaningfulness of life, obtained 3 weeks later. Furthermore, initial sense of belonging predicted independent evaluations of participants essays on meaning in life. In Studies 3 (n = 105) and 4 (n = 165), we primed participants with belongingness, social support, or social value and found that those primed with belongingness (Study 3) or who increased in belongingness (Study 4) reported the highest levels of perceived meaning. In Study 4, belonging mediated the relationship between experimental condition and meaning.
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                Journal
                Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy
                Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy
                Informa UK Limited
                1103-8128
                1651-2014
                November 28 2017
                November 28 2017
                : 1-13
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Department of Health Sciences/Mental Health, Activity and Participation, Lund University, Lund, Sweden;
                [2 ] Department of Health Sciences/Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science, Lund University, Sweden
                Article
                10.1080/11038128.2017.1409266
                29179630
                ce879382-e549-4cb9-82e9-aaceaa222c03
                © 2017
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