Interventions and Policies to Enhance Wellbeing Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, Volume VI Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide Volume I: Wellbeing in Children and Families EditedbySusanH.LandryandCaryL.Cooper Volume II: Wellbeing and the Environment EditedbyRachelCooper,ElizabethBurton,andCaryL.Cooper Volume III: Work and Wellbeing EditedbyPeterY.ChenandCaryL.Cooper Volume IV: Wellbeing in Later Life EditedbyThomasB.L.KirkwoodandCaryL.Cooper Volume V: The Economics of Wellbeing EditedbyDavidMcDaidandCaryL.Cooper Volume VI: Interventions and Policies to Enhance Wellbeing EditedbyFeliciaA.HuppertandCaryL.Cooper Interventions and Policies to Enhance Wellbeing Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, Volume VI Edited by Felicia A. Huppert and Cary L. 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Coverimage:©Ekely/Getty Coverdesignbycyandesign.co.uk Setin10.5/14ptGalliardbyLaserwordsPrivateLimited,Chennai,India 1 2014 Contents of this Volume AbouttheEditors ix Contributors xi FullContentsofWellbeing:ACompleteReferenceGuide xiii IntroductiontoWellbeing:ACompleteReferenceGuide xxvii IntroductiontothisVolume xxxv 1 TheStateofWellbeingScience:Concepts,Measures, Interventions,andPolicies 1 FeliciaA.Huppert Part1 Individual and Group Interventions across the Life Course 51 2 ParentingInterventionstoPromoteWellbeingandPrevent MentalDisorder 53 SarahStewart-Brown 3 PromotingMentalHealthandWellbeinginSchools 93 KatherineWeareandMelanieNind 4 AnExplorationoftheEffectsofMindfulnessTraining andPracticeinAssociationwithEnhancedWellbeing forChildrenandAdolescents:Theory,Research,and Practice 141 ChristineBurke 5 MindMatters:ImplementingMentalHealthPromotionin SecondarySchoolsinAustralia 185 LouiseRowlingandTrevorHazell 6 ASystematicReviewofMentalHealthPromotioninthe Workplace 221 CzesławCzabałaandKatarzynaCharzyn´ska ContentsofthisVolume 7 WellbeingBeginswith‘‘We’’:ThePhysicaland MentalHealthBenefitsofInterventionsthatIncreaseSocial Closeness 277 BethanyE.KokandBarbaraL.Fredrickson ® 8 TheExperienceCorps :IntergenerationalInterventionsto EnhanceWellbeingAmongRetiredPeople 307 GeorgeW.Rebok,MichelleC.Carlson,KevinD.Frick, KatherineD.Giuriceo,TaraL.Gruenewald,SylviaMcGill, JeanineM.Parisi,WilliamA.Romani,TeresaE.Seeman, ElizabethK.Tanner,andLindaP.Fried 9 EnhancingMentalHealthandMentalWellbeinginOlder People:ImportantConceptsandEffectivePsychosocial Interventions 331 AnnaK.Forsman,EijaStenga˚rd,andKristianWahlbeck Part2 Interventions to Create Positive Organizations and Communities 355 10 WellbeingasaBusinessPriority:Experiencefromthe CorporateWorld 357 CatherineKilfedderandPaulLitchfield 11 ThePowerofPhilanthropyandVolunteering 387 SaraKonrath 12 CommunityChange:TheComplexNatureofInterventionsto PromotePositiveConnections 427 SueRoffeyandJacquelineBarnes 13 TheHealthandWellbeingEffectsofActiveLaborMarket Programs 465 AdamP.Coutts,DavidStuckler,andDavidJ.Cann Part3 The Policy Perspective 483 14 CreatingGoodLivesThroughComputerGames 485 DanielJohnson,PetaWyeth,andPennySweetser 15 RetoolingforWellbeing:MediaandthePublic’sMentalHealth 511 MartenW.deVries vi ContentsofthisVolume 16 PolicyandWellbeing:TheU.K.GovernmentPerspective 541 DavidHalpern 17 MeasuringwhatMatters 561 JulietMichaelson,CharlesSeaford,SaamahAbdallah,and NicMarks 18 MentalHealthandWellbeingattheTopoftheGlobalAgenda 599 EvaJane´-Llopis,PeterAnderson,andHelenHerrman 19 HowcanSubjectiveWellbeingbeImproved? 611 JohnF.Helliwell Index 633 vii