Well-Being, More Than a Dream: Women Constructing Metaphors of Strength

Co-creating health: more than a dream.

The BMJ launched a strategy to “walk the talk” on patient partnership three years ago. Its key components include patient review of research papers, requiring authors to invite patients to help shape their educational articles, and new patient led content. (www.bmj.com.campaign/patient-partnership). We reported on progress a year ago. Since then, with the help of patient authors, our patient re...

It's More Than Just Being Connected

Dreams of Traditional and Nontraditional Women: Are Dream Aggression and Hostility Related to Higher Levels of Waking Well-Being?

In order to determine whether varying degrees of traditionality would be manifested in specific behaviors that would be present in women's waking and dreaming life, 100 women between the ages of 22 and 79, 12% of whom were African American, were administered a number of self-report measures of psychological well-being and were asked to complete ongoing dream diaries for a 2-week period. These i...

A comparative study of psychological well-being, meta-emotion, and resiliency in fertile and infertile women

Abstract Background & Aims of the Study: According to the high prevalence of mental problems of infertility in infertile women, and the necessity of identifying their mental statuses to carry out interventions in order to help them, the present study aims a comparative study of psychological well-being, meta-emotion, and resiliency in fertile and infertile women. Materials & Methods: This study...

Strength-based well-being indicators for Indigenous children and families: A literature review of Indigenous communities' identified well-being indicators.

Mainstream child and family well-being indicators frequently are based on measuring health, economic, and social deficits, and do not reflect Indigenous holistic and strength-based definitions of health and well-being. The present article is a review of literature that features Indigenous communities' self-identified strength-based indicators of child and family well-being. The literature searc...