Community and Family Studies - Preliminary Study Notes

According to the text, "Wellness has been defined as purposeful, enjoyable living or, more specifically, a deliberate lifestyle choice characterized by personal responsibility and optimal enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual health.

Factors that can contribute to an individual’s wellbeing include physical and mental health, emotional and intellectual fulfilment and overall contentment. Contentment is often achieved by someone’s’ needs being met for example a person with housing issues may feel content once supported to get a property.

Emotional Wellness – To be able to accept and control your feelings. To have a good self-esteem and to not stress or be disappointed. You have to accept what you have done and be happy with what you have done. You need to find solutions to your problems to have a good emotional wellness and if you need to ask people for help to solve your problems then ask.

1. ‘Health’ and ‘Wellbeing’ are related but different concepts. Explore them in relation to the ways in which social policy provision might be able to promote them.

The closest that the CfE documentation comes to a definition is “Learning through health and wellbeing promotes confidence, independent thinking and positive attitudes and dispositions. Because of this, it is the responsibility of every teacher to contribute to learning and development in this area.” but this statement does not explain what wellbeing is, only what the requirement should be. John White (2011) explores this meaning of wellbeing in the context of education and summarises that "A flourishing life is one filled with successful and whole-hearted engagement in worthwhile activities and relationships" (p.113). He notes that “School….. is a natural extension of (such a) home” (p.125) where teachers build upon foundations laid by parents so that the child is immersed in activities and experiences and develops a range of skills and personal dispositions to provide a fulfilling life in the present as well as for the future. As John White (2011) notes, "Teachers and parents need to have well-grounded confidence in their judgements about worthwhileness and to pass this on to their children/pupils." p130. The extent to which teachers are coloured by their own biases and life experiences are ready to

| Groups also have members who play certain social roles: * Encourager: Praises the ideas of others. * Harmonizer: Mediates differences between group members. * Compromiser: Moves group to another position that is favored by all group members. * Gatekeeper/expediter: Keeps communication channels open. * Standard Setter: Suggests standards or criteria for the group to achieve. * Group observer: Keeps records of group activities and uses this information to offer feedback to the group. * Follower: Goes along with the group and accepts the group 's ideas (Roles in Groups, 1999).

I belong to three mains groups, Bible study group, and student government and, ushers team which is task based. Bible study group is more relationship based, but somewhat task based. Bible study group is also an information sharing group because one has knowledge of a particular part of the Bible, however, it is as well seeking to learn more about and understand the verses and books that others discern better. Student Government is like a problem-solving group because its purpose is to advocate for students. Ushers team is either information sharing or problem solving, yet is more motivated on teamwork than sharing information or resolve a problem.

4. Your group will present and lead the discussion of the question(s) assigned to you. Although the group in charge will be the major discussants for the assigned question(s), it is highly recommended to have the rest of the class involved and participated in the discussion.

This theory is a combined of two influential theories on group behavior, which Kenneth Benne and Paul Sheats have wrote in article of ‘’Functional Roles of Group Members’’ in 1940. This theory worked in some teams that are effective in some but for some it isn’t. Their work influenced other earlier research and thinking about the function of group. The have researched more recently and have refined many ideas. Group roles are extremely useful and interesting in the way of looking at the behavior of the team. 26 different group role have been defined which can be played by one or more people within a group depends on that person’s skill.

Physical wellbeing is basic for general prosperity and is the most noticeable of the different measurements of wellbeing, which additionally incorporate social, scholarly, passionate, otherworldly and ecological wellbeing. Probably the most clear and genuine signs that we are undesirable show up physically. Tending to this measurement is essential for anybody endeavoring to maintain general wellbeing and

In order to evaluate my role within the group it is important to identify what makes a group. A group must

A group engages in certain processes that naturally occur when a set of individuals are working together. In the Orientation phase, the needs of group members are to be oriented to the task, that is, to define the task, specify issues, identify expectations, and explore the nature of the work. From this, members develop a common understanding of the group's purpose. In the Testing and Dependency phase, participants generally act as if they depend on the leader to provide all the structure. They look to the leader to set the ground rules, establish the agenda, to do all the "leading," while the group members acclimate themselves to the setting. Group members exhibit behavior to test what behavior is acceptable and what is not, and begin to establish boundaries, to consider themselves as individuals in relation to the group, and to define the function of the group and the leader. This phase generally concludes when there is general agreement that the goals are achievable and that change is possible--whether it be changing behavior, making a decision, or solving a problem. Organizing to get work done involves a number of group decisions. These include establishing work rules, determining limits, defining the reward system, setting the criteria for the task, dividing the work and assigning individual responsibility for particular tasks. As it relates to

The World Health Organization’s quality of life survey allowed me to explore the meaning of well-being in my life. From physical health and psychological health to social relationships and environmental health, many aspects of well-being were assessed and examined. I learned that well-being in not just ones physical well-being but an accumulation of physical health, psychological health, social relationships, and environmental health.

Positive explanation of health and wellbeing is where an individual is accomplishing and maintaining a healthy way of life by maintaining being physically fit and having good mental health. The individual looks at what they can do well such as walking, running, having an energetic lifestyle and feeling well as a sign of good health and wellbeing (Manley. A,

Even if we use the word “happiness” on daily basis, has anyone ever tried to define it? It’s harder than it seems. When do you feel happy? How is it when you feel happy? Is there any way to understand how much happiness to you experience? This is the main hypothesis of this paper – Can happiness or wellbeing be measured? And if it can be measured, how do we measure it? Happiness is feeling pleasure and enjoyment because of your life, situation (Meriam Webster). Pleasure and enjoyment are very subjective and means different things to different people. This is where the term subjective wellbeing comes from. There are a lot of things that can be included when measuring wellbeing. Various studies have been conducted to assess wellbeing and how does it affect other factors. For example Earlstin(1995) and later on Ferrer-i-Carbonell(2005) have examined the relationship between income and happiness. Gruber(2004) studies the relationship cigarette taxation and happier smokers. Richard, Clark, Gerogellis and Diener(2004) analyze the effect of unemployment on wellbeing.