Overview
- Introduces the theory of holism and its application to adolescent health
- Outlines the basic elements of theory that underlie holistic understandings of adolescent health
- Provides practical recommendations on the factors that influence the health of adolescents
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research (BRIEFSWELLBEING)
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Table of contents(5 chapters)
Keywords
- Canadian Holistic Health in Children
- Health of Canadian Adolescents
- Holistic Child Health
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children
- Theory of Holism
- Study of Health in Adolescents
- Adolescent Health Research Program
- Influences of the Health of Adolescents
- Holistic Understandings of Adolescent Health
About this book
This book outlines the basic elements of theory that underlie holistic understandings of adolescent health, quantitative and qualitative findings, and then presents and interprets the results and translates them into a series of practical recommendations.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Public Health Sciences and School of Religion, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
Valerie Michaelson
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Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
Nathan King, William Pickett
About the authors
Dr. Michaelson has primary research interests in “religion and childhood”, “child health and well-being” and “child spirituality”. Her primary training is in qualitative research methods, including phenomenology, grounded theory, arts based research and photo voice. She brings additional training and experience in knowledge translation and mixed methods approaches to data analysis and integration, and has worked as part of a mixed methods research team for the past 4 years. She also leads a Youth Engagement Program with the Childhealth 2.0 Research Team out of the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Holistic Health in Children: Conceptualization, Assessment and Potential
Authors: Valerie Michaelson, Nathan King, William Pickett
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64831-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64830-9Published: 25 August 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64831-6Published: 21 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2211-7644
Series E-ISSN: 2211-7652
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 104
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Child Well-being, Quality of Life Research, Health Psychology