Approaches to Improving the Quality of Life

How to Enhance the Quality of Life
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-90-481-9147-5
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 406 g

Reihe: Social Indicators Research Series

After measuring the Quality of Life and identifying the deficiences in your community, what steps should you take to improve the Quality of Life? This volume reviews methods for improving the Quality of Life that are based upon improving each of the ten domains of the Quality of Life. Steps to improve health, means of reducing environmental toxins, orientation to bring about better self-concept and mental health, and so forth. In each such area, steps are set forth for eliminating undesirable and debilitating features of the domain. Social change comes about by the application of devised steps. The process has been called "telesis". It is the application of intelligent, well-tested interventions to bring about improvement. In some cases it may effect change quickly and others may require a continuing process of adjustment and change. As a handbook for community workers, the volume provides a framework for intervention that could lead to a better tomorrow.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferriss, Abbott L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik, Theorie und Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie der Lebensart, Well-Being

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Survival of the Species.- Social Acceptance.- Mastery.- Affective Autonomy.- Intellectual Autonomy.- Harmony.- Conservatism.- Hierarchy.- Egalitarian Commitment.- Health.- Toward the Good Life in a Good Society.- Interventions.