An interdisciplinary mental wellbeing intervention for increasing flourishing: two experimental studies

Employee Wellbeing: Evaluating a Wellbeing Intervention in Two Settings

This research presents two studies conducted to evaluate the Wellbeing Game in two different contexts: In a student sample and in an organizational setting. Study 1 investigated the efficacy of the Wellbeing Game, in terms of its effect of wellbeing, stress, and an image valence test, among 60 university students. The results showed that after playing the Wellbeing Game, students reported a sig...

Human Wellbeing and Flourishing: If Not Now, When?

Editorial T here is a lot that gets in the way of human flourishing. In the world today, we face seemingly unsolvable issues including health disparities , poverty, climate change, food security, clean water, and violence, to name of few. These profound challenges are not unrelated. Lack of education contributes to unemployment, which in turn contributes to poverty. In communities where there i...

Public mental health: an interdisciplinary subject?

The Chief Medical Officer's report for 2013 was the first of its kind to highlight the public's mental rather than physical health and thus represents a very important landmark for public health in the UK. Written primarily from the perspective of psychiatrists, the report has created confusion in public health circles by failing to adequately address the public health perspective. David Forema...

Mental Health and Wellbeing

Two-year follow-up of an interdisciplinary cognitive-behavioral intervention program for obese adults.

Intervention programs for treating adiposity which focus on dietary change and physical exercise often do not lead to the desired long-term reduction in weight. This article reports on the effectiveness of M.O.B.I.L.I.S., a standardized theory-driven intervention program. Participants are taught cognitive-behavioral strategies of goal setting, action planning, barrier management, and self-monit...