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Monica Eriksson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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'A synergy model of health': an integration of Salutogenesis and the health assets model.
Health Promotion International, 2020Co-Authors: Patricia Pérez-wilson, Monica Eriksson, Bengt Lindström, Antony Morgan, Jorge Marcos-marcos, Carlos Álvarez-dardetAbstract:This article proposes to advance the connections between salutogenic theory and assets models for health improvement. There is a need to integrate their use in public health and health promotion so that their respective potentials can be fully developed. This requires their synergies to be made more explicit so that a more coherent approach can be taken to their utilization. A mechanism is therefore needed that helps to raise awareness of them and their value as a resource together. Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory provides one framework that can support better integration of Salutogenesis with the applied nature of assets-based models. This paper proposes a new 'synergy model for health' that integrates key concepts associated with salutogenic theory-generalized and specific resistance resources (GRRs/SRRs) and generalized and specific resistance deficits and the sense of coherence (SOC). In doing so, it highlights those GRRs and SRRs which are assets that, either individually or collectively, help to develop a stronger SOC. Higher levels of SOC can then support the transformations of potential resources into available assets (that people can understand, manage and make sense of), capable of producing positive health development. The proposed 'Synergy model of health' aims to contribute to a deeper theoretical understanding of health and development through the integration of the key elements of both Salutogenesis and assets models. This can facilitate a better contextualization of the ideas into public health policy and practice by making the salutogenic theory more action-oriented and the assets model more theoretical.
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Future directions for the concept of Salutogenesis: a position article.
Health Promotion International, 2019Co-Authors: Georg F. Bauer, Geir Arild Espnes, M Roy, Pauline Bakibinga, Paolo Contu, Soo Downe, Monica Eriksson, Bjarne Bruun Jensen, D. Juvinyà Canal, Bengt LindströmAbstract:Aaron Antonovsky advanced the concept of Salutogenesis almost four decades ago (Antonovsky, Health, Stress and Coping. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1979; Unravelling the Mystery of Health. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1987). Salutogenesis posits that life experiences shape the sense of coherence (SOC) that helps to mobilize resources to cope with stressors and manage tension successfully (determining one’s movement on the health Ease/Dis-ease continuum). Antonovsky considered the three-dimensional SOC (i.e. comprehensibility, manageability, meaningfulness) as the key answer to his question about the origin of health. The field of health promotion has adopted the concept of Salutogenesis as reflected in the international Handbook of Salutogenesis (Mittelmark et al., The Handbook of Salutogenesis. Springer, New York, 2016). However, health promotion mostly builds on the more vague, general salutogenic orientation that implies the need to foster resources and capacities to promote health and wellbeing. To strengthen the knowledge base of Salutogenesis, the Global Working Group on Salutogenesis (GWG-Sal) of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education produced the Handbook of Salutogenesis. During the creation of the handbook and the regular meetings of the GWG-Sal, the working group identified four key conceptual issues to be advanced: (i) the overall salutogenic model of health; (ii) the SOC concept; (iii) the design of salutogenic interventions and change processes in complex systems; (iv) the application of Salutogenesis beyond health sector. For each of these areas, we first highlight Antonovsky’s original contribution and then present suggestions for future development. These ideas will help guide GWG-Sal’s work to strengthen Salutogenesis as a theory base for health promotion.
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The Handbook of Salutogenesis - The Handbook of Salutogenesis
2017Co-Authors: Maurice B. Mittelmark, Georg F. Bauer, Monica Eriksson, Bengt Lindström, Jürgen M. Pelikan, Shifra Sagy, Geir Arild EspnesAbstract:This in-depth survey of Salutogenesis shows the breadth and strengths of this innovative perspective on health promotion, health care, and wellness. Background and historical chapters trace the development of the salutogenic model of health, and flesh out the central concepts, most notably generalized resistance resources and the sense of coherence, that differentiate it from pathogenesis. From there, experts describe a range of real-world applications within and outside health contexts, from positive psychology to geriatrics, from small towns to corrections facilities, and from school and workplace to professional training. Perspectives from scholars publishing in languages other than English show the global relevance of the field.Among the topics in the Handbook: Emerging ideas relevant to the salutogenic model of health Specific resistance resources in the salutogenic model of health The sense of coherence and its measurement The application of Salutogenesis in communities and neighborhoods The application of Salutogenesis to health development in youth with chronic conditions The application of Salutogenesis in mental health care settings The Handbook of Salutogenesis summarizes an increasingly salient field for graduate and professional students of public health, nursing, psychology, and medicine, and for their instructors. It will also appeal to health-related academicians and professionals who wish to have a thorough grounding in the topic.
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the handbook of Salutogenesis
The handbook of salutogenesis. Edited by: Mittelmark Maurice B; Sagy Shifra; Eriksson Monica; Bauer Georg F; Pelikan Jürgen M; Lindström Bengt; Espnes, 2017Co-Authors: Maurice B. Mittelmark, Georg F. Bauer, Monica Eriksson, Bengt Lindström, Jürgen M. Pelikan, Shifra Sagy, Geir Arild EspnesAbstract:This in-depth survey of Salutogenesis shows the breadth and strengths of this innovative perspective on health promotion, health care, and wellness. Background and historical chapters trace the development of the salutogenic model of health, and flesh out the central concepts, most notably generalized resistance resources and the sense of coherence, that differentiate it from pathogenesis. From there, experts describe a range of real-world applications within and outside health contexts, from positive psychology to geriatrics, from small towns to corrections facilities, and from school and workplace to professional training. Perspectives from scholars publishing in languages other than English show the global relevance of the field.Among the topics in the Handbook: Emerging ideas relevant to the salutogenic model of health Specific resistance resources in the salutogenic model of health The sense of coherence and its measurement The application of Salutogenesis in communities and neighborhoods The application of Salutogenesis to health development in youth with chronic conditions The application of Salutogenesis in mental health care settings The Handbook of Salutogenesis summarizes an increasingly salient field for graduate and professional students of public health, nursing, psychology, and medicine, and for their instructors. It will also appeal to health-related academicians and professionals who wish to have a thorough grounding in the topic.
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Perspectives on Salutogenesis of Scholars Writing in Swedish
The Handbook of Salutogenesis, 2016Co-Authors: Monica ErikssonAbstract:This chapter describes the background and the development of scholarship on Salutogenesis in Swedish. It starts from the time when Antonovsky visited the University of Lund and introduced the salutogenic model of health to the Swedish audience of health scientists. Research on the sense of coherence construct is extensive in English, so just describing articles and theses published in Swedish do not give a fair picture of the Swedish research. Therefore, this chapter begins with a summary of the total number of sense of coherence studies in the period 1983–2013 and thereafter shows some trends in research in Swedish, ending up in current research. The chapter does not claim to be a systematic literature review of Swedish research on Salutogenesis and the core concept of the sense of coherence; instead, it intends to be a sketch of Swedish Salutogenesis research, showing some steps in the development from the past to the current situation.
Stefan Wagner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Towards the Assessment of Stress and Emotional Responses of a Salutogenesis-Enhanced Software Tool Using Psychophysiological Measurements
2017 IEEE ACM 2nd International Workshop on Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering (SEmotion), 2017Co-Authors: Jan-peter Ostberg, Daniel Graziotin, Stefan Wagner, Birgit DerntlAbstract:Software development is intellectual, based on collaboration, and performed in a highly demanding economic market. As such, it is dominated by time pressure, stress, and emotional trauma. While studies of affect are emerging in software engineering research, stress has yet to find its place in the literature despite that it is highly related to affect. In this paper, we study stress coping with the affect-laden framework of Salutogenesis, which is a validated psychological framework for enhancing mental health through a feeling of coherence. We propose a controlled experiment for testing our hypotheses that a static analysis tool enhanced with the Salutogenesis model will bring 1) a higher number of fixed quality issues, 2) reduced cognitive load, 3) reduction of the overall stress, and 4) positive affect induction effects to developers. The experiment will make use of validated physiological measurements of stress as proxied by cortisol and alpha-amylase levels in saliva samples, a psychometrically validated measurement of mood and affect disposition, and stress inductors such as a cognitive load task. Our hypotheses, if empirically supported, will lead to the creation of environments, methods, and tools that alleviate stress among developers while enhancing affect on the job and task performance.
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SEmotion@ICSE - Towards the assessment of stress and emotional responses of a Salutogenesis-enhanced software tool using psychophysiological measurements
2017Co-Authors: Jan-peter Ostberg, Daniel Graziotin, Stefan Wagner, Birgit DerntlAbstract:Software development is intellectual, based on collaboration, and performed in a highly demanding economic market. As such, it is dominated by time pressure, stress, and emotional trauma. While studies of affect are emerging in software engineering research, stress has yet to find its place in the literature despite that it is highly related to affect. In this paper, we study stress coping with the affect-laden framework of Salutogenesis, which is a validated psychological framework for enhancing mental health through a feeling of coherence. We propose a controlled experiment for testing our hypotheses that a static analysis tool enhanced with the Salutogenesis model will bring 1) a higher number of fixed quality issues, 2) reduced cognitive load, 3) reduction of the overall stress, and 4) positive affect induction effects to developers. The experiment will make use of validated physiological measurements of stress as proxied by cortisol and alpha-amylase levels in saliva samples, a psychometrically validated measurement of mood and affect disposition, and stress inductors such as a cognitive load task. Our hypotheses, if empirically supported, will lead to the creation of environments, methods, and tools that alleviate stress among developers while enhancing affect on the job and task performance.
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At Ease with Your Warnings: The Principles of the Salutogenesis Model Applied to Automatic Static Analysis
2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2016Co-Authors: Jan-peter Ostberg, Stefan WagnerAbstract:The results of an automatic static analysis run can be overwhelming, especially for beginners. The overflow of information and the resulting need for many decisions is mentally tiring and can cause stress symptoms. There are several models in health care which are designed to fight stress. One of these is the Salutogenesis model created by Aaron Antonovsky. In this paper, we will present an idea on how to transfer this model into a triage and recommendation model for static analysis tools and give an example of how this can be implemented in FindBugs, a static analysis tool for Java.
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SANER - At Ease with Your Warnings: The Principles of the Salutogenesis Model Applied to Automatic Static Analysis
2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2016Co-Authors: Jan-peter Ostberg, Stefan WagnerAbstract:The results of an automatic static analysis run can be overwhelming, especially for beginners. The overflow of information and the resulting need for many decisions is mentally tiring and can cause stress symptoms. There are several models in health care which are designed to fight stress. One of these is the Salutogenesis model created by Aaron Antonovsky. In this paper, we will present an idea on how to transfer this model into a triage and recommendation model for static analysis tools and give an example of how this can be implemented in FindBugs, a static analysis tool for Java.
Jan-peter Ostberg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Towards the Assessment of Stress and Emotional Responses of a Salutogenesis-Enhanced Software Tool Using Psychophysiological Measurements
2017 IEEE ACM 2nd International Workshop on Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering (SEmotion), 2017Co-Authors: Jan-peter Ostberg, Daniel Graziotin, Stefan Wagner, Birgit DerntlAbstract:Software development is intellectual, based on collaboration, and performed in a highly demanding economic market. As such, it is dominated by time pressure, stress, and emotional trauma. While studies of affect are emerging in software engineering research, stress has yet to find its place in the literature despite that it is highly related to affect. In this paper, we study stress coping with the affect-laden framework of Salutogenesis, which is a validated psychological framework for enhancing mental health through a feeling of coherence. We propose a controlled experiment for testing our hypotheses that a static analysis tool enhanced with the Salutogenesis model will bring 1) a higher number of fixed quality issues, 2) reduced cognitive load, 3) reduction of the overall stress, and 4) positive affect induction effects to developers. The experiment will make use of validated physiological measurements of stress as proxied by cortisol and alpha-amylase levels in saliva samples, a psychometrically validated measurement of mood and affect disposition, and stress inductors such as a cognitive load task. Our hypotheses, if empirically supported, will lead to the creation of environments, methods, and tools that alleviate stress among developers while enhancing affect on the job and task performance.
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SEmotion@ICSE - Towards the assessment of stress and emotional responses of a Salutogenesis-enhanced software tool using psychophysiological measurements
2017Co-Authors: Jan-peter Ostberg, Daniel Graziotin, Stefan Wagner, Birgit DerntlAbstract:Software development is intellectual, based on collaboration, and performed in a highly demanding economic market. As such, it is dominated by time pressure, stress, and emotional trauma. While studies of affect are emerging in software engineering research, stress has yet to find its place in the literature despite that it is highly related to affect. In this paper, we study stress coping with the affect-laden framework of Salutogenesis, which is a validated psychological framework for enhancing mental health through a feeling of coherence. We propose a controlled experiment for testing our hypotheses that a static analysis tool enhanced with the Salutogenesis model will bring 1) a higher number of fixed quality issues, 2) reduced cognitive load, 3) reduction of the overall stress, and 4) positive affect induction effects to developers. The experiment will make use of validated physiological measurements of stress as proxied by cortisol and alpha-amylase levels in saliva samples, a psychometrically validated measurement of mood and affect disposition, and stress inductors such as a cognitive load task. Our hypotheses, if empirically supported, will lead to the creation of environments, methods, and tools that alleviate stress among developers while enhancing affect on the job and task performance.
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At Ease with Your Warnings: The Principles of the Salutogenesis Model Applied to Automatic Static Analysis
2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2016Co-Authors: Jan-peter Ostberg, Stefan WagnerAbstract:The results of an automatic static analysis run can be overwhelming, especially for beginners. The overflow of information and the resulting need for many decisions is mentally tiring and can cause stress symptoms. There are several models in health care which are designed to fight stress. One of these is the Salutogenesis model created by Aaron Antonovsky. In this paper, we will present an idea on how to transfer this model into a triage and recommendation model for static analysis tools and give an example of how this can be implemented in FindBugs, a static analysis tool for Java.
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SANER - At Ease with Your Warnings: The Principles of the Salutogenesis Model Applied to Automatic Static Analysis
2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2016Co-Authors: Jan-peter Ostberg, Stefan WagnerAbstract:The results of an automatic static analysis run can be overwhelming, especially for beginners. The overflow of information and the resulting need for many decisions is mentally tiring and can cause stress symptoms. There are several models in health care which are designed to fight stress. One of these is the Salutogenesis model created by Aaron Antonovsky. In this paper, we will present an idea on how to transfer this model into a triage and recommendation model for static analysis tools and give an example of how this can be implemented in FindBugs, a static analysis tool for Java.
Eva Langeland - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Salutogenesis as a theoretical framework for psychosocial rehabilitation: the case of the Clubhouse model.
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 2020Co-Authors: Orsolya Reka Fekete, Liv Grethe Kinn, Torill Larsen, Eva LangelandAbstract:Purpose: This study explored whether the holistic theory of Salutogenesis may be a suitable theoretical framework for the Clubhouse model of psychosocial rehabilitation, a pioneer among psychosocia...
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The Application of Salutogenesis in the Training of Health Professionals
The Handbook of Salutogenesis, 2016Co-Authors: Hege Forbech Vinje, Liv Hanson Ausland, Eva LangelandAbstract:In this chapter, we describe an empirically developed educational strategy that health profession training programmes could use to infuse students in the health professions with Salutogenesis thinking and capability in their approach to patient care and health promotion activities. This strategy is based on years of research and teaching mental health, health promotion, and Salutogenesis to students on bachelor, postgraduate, masters, and continuing education levels. Any educational strategy aiming to teach salutogenic practice should be grounded in the ontological stance that Salutogenesis represents, and it should comprise Salutogenesis as a body of knowledge, as a continuous learning process, as a way of working, and as a way of being. The overall objective is not the healing of diseases, but the facilitating and supporting of health-promoting processes leading to a person’s or group’s adaptive coping and enhanced ease and well-being. A key outcome of such training is that the student develops the capacity to manage herself in the salutogenic way. This means developing the capability called “self-tuning,” which is habitual self-sensitivity, reflection, and mobilizing of resources to maintain and improve one’s own health (“ease,” in Antonovsky’s terms). This is a form of self-care, the principles of which can be used by health professionals to assist patients and others to experience good health and well-being. A health professional’s “salutogenic capacity” is her degree of skill to help a person or group examine, mobilize, and deploy sufficient resources to achieve a shift towards the experience of good health and well-being. Salutogenic capacity can be expanded as part of the professional training, as described in this chapter. The methods learned can be applied after training, such that salutogenic capacity is strengthened and reinforced during the course of one’s career.
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The Application of Salutogenesis in Mental Healthcare Settings
The Handbook of Salutogenesis, 2016Co-Authors: Eva Langeland, Hege Forbech VinjeAbstract:Research shows that sense of coherence is especially related to mental health. Thus, the relevance of applying Salutogenesis in clinical settings is obvious. At the individual level, the professional healthcare worker aspires to be an expert and to create a conversational and interactional climate that will promote desirable change for, and in, the recipient of the mental healthcare service. This chapter emphasizes high quality social support in interplay with positive identity development as crucial resistance resources in a salutogenic approach in mental healthcare settings. Social support and identity are relevant in any discussion of group therapy, and a salutogenic orientation gives explicit attention to their interplay as resistance resources. While intervention research is still quite limited, some experimental evidence is presented in this chapter that indicates both the feasibility and the effectiveness of taking a salutogenic orientation into the mental health therapy setting.
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Promoting sense of coherence: Salutogenesis among people with psoriasis undergoing patient education in climate therapy
BMC Psychology, 2013Co-Authors: Eva Langeland, Hilde Stendal Robinson, Torbjørn Moum, Marie Hamilton Larsen, Anne-lene Krogstad, Astrid Klopstad WahlAbstract:Background There is a need for further investigation of sense of coherence (SOC), the central concept of Salutogenesis, and its relationship with long-term illnesses such as psoriasis. The aim of this study is to investigate the development of SOC during patient education in the context of climate therapy and to explore factors that may predict changes in SOC among people with psoriasis.
Bengt Lindström - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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'A synergy model of health': an integration of Salutogenesis and the health assets model.
Health Promotion International, 2020Co-Authors: Patricia Pérez-wilson, Monica Eriksson, Bengt Lindström, Antony Morgan, Jorge Marcos-marcos, Carlos Álvarez-dardetAbstract:This article proposes to advance the connections between salutogenic theory and assets models for health improvement. There is a need to integrate their use in public health and health promotion so that their respective potentials can be fully developed. This requires their synergies to be made more explicit so that a more coherent approach can be taken to their utilization. A mechanism is therefore needed that helps to raise awareness of them and their value as a resource together. Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory provides one framework that can support better integration of Salutogenesis with the applied nature of assets-based models. This paper proposes a new 'synergy model for health' that integrates key concepts associated with salutogenic theory-generalized and specific resistance resources (GRRs/SRRs) and generalized and specific resistance deficits and the sense of coherence (SOC). In doing so, it highlights those GRRs and SRRs which are assets that, either individually or collectively, help to develop a stronger SOC. Higher levels of SOC can then support the transformations of potential resources into available assets (that people can understand, manage and make sense of), capable of producing positive health development. The proposed 'Synergy model of health' aims to contribute to a deeper theoretical understanding of health and development through the integration of the key elements of both Salutogenesis and assets models. This can facilitate a better contextualization of the ideas into public health policy and practice by making the salutogenic theory more action-oriented and the assets model more theoretical.
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Future directions for the concept of Salutogenesis: a position article.
Health Promotion International, 2019Co-Authors: Georg F. Bauer, Geir Arild Espnes, M Roy, Pauline Bakibinga, Paolo Contu, Soo Downe, Monica Eriksson, Bjarne Bruun Jensen, D. Juvinyà Canal, Bengt LindströmAbstract:Aaron Antonovsky advanced the concept of Salutogenesis almost four decades ago (Antonovsky, Health, Stress and Coping. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1979; Unravelling the Mystery of Health. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1987). Salutogenesis posits that life experiences shape the sense of coherence (SOC) that helps to mobilize resources to cope with stressors and manage tension successfully (determining one’s movement on the health Ease/Dis-ease continuum). Antonovsky considered the three-dimensional SOC (i.e. comprehensibility, manageability, meaningfulness) as the key answer to his question about the origin of health. The field of health promotion has adopted the concept of Salutogenesis as reflected in the international Handbook of Salutogenesis (Mittelmark et al., The Handbook of Salutogenesis. Springer, New York, 2016). However, health promotion mostly builds on the more vague, general salutogenic orientation that implies the need to foster resources and capacities to promote health and wellbeing. To strengthen the knowledge base of Salutogenesis, the Global Working Group on Salutogenesis (GWG-Sal) of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education produced the Handbook of Salutogenesis. During the creation of the handbook and the regular meetings of the GWG-Sal, the working group identified four key conceptual issues to be advanced: (i) the overall salutogenic model of health; (ii) the SOC concept; (iii) the design of salutogenic interventions and change processes in complex systems; (iv) the application of Salutogenesis beyond health sector. For each of these areas, we first highlight Antonovsky’s original contribution and then present suggestions for future development. These ideas will help guide GWG-Sal’s work to strengthen Salutogenesis as a theory base for health promotion.
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The Handbook of Salutogenesis - The Handbook of Salutogenesis
2017Co-Authors: Maurice B. Mittelmark, Georg F. Bauer, Monica Eriksson, Bengt Lindström, Jürgen M. Pelikan, Shifra Sagy, Geir Arild EspnesAbstract:This in-depth survey of Salutogenesis shows the breadth and strengths of this innovative perspective on health promotion, health care, and wellness. Background and historical chapters trace the development of the salutogenic model of health, and flesh out the central concepts, most notably generalized resistance resources and the sense of coherence, that differentiate it from pathogenesis. From there, experts describe a range of real-world applications within and outside health contexts, from positive psychology to geriatrics, from small towns to corrections facilities, and from school and workplace to professional training. Perspectives from scholars publishing in languages other than English show the global relevance of the field.Among the topics in the Handbook: Emerging ideas relevant to the salutogenic model of health Specific resistance resources in the salutogenic model of health The sense of coherence and its measurement The application of Salutogenesis in communities and neighborhoods The application of Salutogenesis to health development in youth with chronic conditions The application of Salutogenesis in mental health care settings The Handbook of Salutogenesis summarizes an increasingly salient field for graduate and professional students of public health, nursing, psychology, and medicine, and for their instructors. It will also appeal to health-related academicians and professionals who wish to have a thorough grounding in the topic.
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the handbook of Salutogenesis
The handbook of salutogenesis. Edited by: Mittelmark Maurice B; Sagy Shifra; Eriksson Monica; Bauer Georg F; Pelikan Jürgen M; Lindström Bengt; Espnes, 2017Co-Authors: Maurice B. Mittelmark, Georg F. Bauer, Monica Eriksson, Bengt Lindström, Jürgen M. Pelikan, Shifra Sagy, Geir Arild EspnesAbstract:This in-depth survey of Salutogenesis shows the breadth and strengths of this innovative perspective on health promotion, health care, and wellness. Background and historical chapters trace the development of the salutogenic model of health, and flesh out the central concepts, most notably generalized resistance resources and the sense of coherence, that differentiate it from pathogenesis. From there, experts describe a range of real-world applications within and outside health contexts, from positive psychology to geriatrics, from small towns to corrections facilities, and from school and workplace to professional training. Perspectives from scholars publishing in languages other than English show the global relevance of the field.Among the topics in the Handbook: Emerging ideas relevant to the salutogenic model of health Specific resistance resources in the salutogenic model of health The sense of coherence and its measurement The application of Salutogenesis in communities and neighborhoods The application of Salutogenesis to health development in youth with chronic conditions The application of Salutogenesis in mental health care settings The Handbook of Salutogenesis summarizes an increasingly salient field for graduate and professional students of public health, nursing, psychology, and medicine, and for their instructors. It will also appeal to health-related academicians and professionals who wish to have a thorough grounding in the topic.
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A Portal to Salutogenesis in Languages of the World
The Handbook of Salutogenesis, 2016Co-Authors: Bengt LindströmAbstract:Several considerations have triggered this Section of the book. First of all, Antonovsky claimed his key concepts within the salutogenic framework were universal, meaning SOC and GRRs could be studied in any society. The empirical evidence on SOC so far seems to support this with few exceptions. Secondly, the early critics of Antonovsky pointed out that the research mainly was concentrated around his own research team and some of his Scandinavian friends. This has never been true; we have research on Salutogenesis in all continents of the World and translations of the SOC instrument into at least 49 languages. Thirdly, most scientific literature is today presented in English, meaning research in other main language groups does not appear in most literature searches. This leaves much cultural nuance outside the mainstream Salutogenesis literature. Finally, it is about networking. Young researchers who plan to start studies in their countries and language groups will have great benefit of getting in contact with native researchers, enabling discussions and establishing national research teams and networks. This Section thus serves as a portal to Salutogenesis writing of scholars working in languages other than English. There are already extensive language group networks such as the Spanish—Ibero American Network based at the Girona University, the French Canadian Network based in Montreal, and the German Network and other National networks.
