The Different Dimensions of the Social Construction Process

Lazar, Marc

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05876-0_6

Stress and Suffering at Work 2019

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05876-0_6

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The Different Dimensions of the Social Construction Process

Marc Lazar

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“…The beliefs associated with modernist mental health scienceone that places the node of a person's being within the private venues of the mind/psyche (Loriol, 2019) tend to identify social problems, like a mental illness itself or even poverty, manly as instigated by an individual's behaviors, psychological state, neurology or biology, where the deficiencies or shortages of the individual are the main focus (McNamee, 2019). It is less common to see the recognition of contextual variables as a premise for mental health.…”

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The nexus between peace and mental well-being: contributions for public happiness

Marujo

2023

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Purpose This underscores individual and social implications for how mental disorders and mental well-being are constructed, conceived of and treated. Further, this paper aims to examine positive psychology’s role in supporting the advancement of a broader systemic and contextual approach to mental health. With that aim, this paper connects data on mental health and well-being with peace studies to describe the systems of value and social ecologies underpinning mental disorders, using public happiness/Felicitas Publica as a possible framework to enhance public mental health while intervening at the local level (Bruni and Zamagni, 2007; Marujo and Neto, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2021; Marujo et al., 2019). Design/methodology/approach Theoretical foundations and data on positive peace and mental well-being are described with the intention to propose a systemic, contextual, relational, communitarian, economic and sociopolitical perspective of well-being that goes beyond individual bodies and/or brains and, instead, views mental disorder and mental health as social currency (Beck, 2020). Findings The interventions using dialogic, conversational and community approaches are a possible path to promote peace, mental health and public happiness. Research limitations/implications Examining the interplay between the fields of positive psychology, mental health and cultures of peace, this work contributes to the broadening of research and subsequent intervention topics through transdisciplinary approaches while reinforcing the role of systemic and social determinants and complementing the prevalent medical model and intraindividual perspective of mental health and well-being. Practical implications Adopting positive psychology to address mental health through public happiness concepts and interventions opens opportunities to respond to the ebb and flow of social challenges and life-giving opportunities. Therefore, the paper intends to articulate actor-related, relational, structural and cultural dimensions while moving away from discrete technocratic and individual models and pays attention to the way their implementations are aligned with both individual and social needs. Social implications The work offers an inclusive, equalitarian, politically sensitive approach to positive mental health and positive psychology, bringing forward a structural transformation and human rights-based approach perspective while rethinking the type of social and political solutions to mental health issues. Originality/value Creating a critically constructive debate vis-à-vis the fluidity and complexity of the social world, the paper examines mental health and positive psychology simultaneously from a “hardware” (institutions, infrastructures, services, systems, etc.) and a “software” (i.e. individuals and community/societal relations).

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The Different Dimensions of the Social Construction Process

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