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The Quest for Health and Community: Democracy, Spirituality, and Neighborly Caring

The Third Annual Greenville Family Symposium offers mental health policymakers, practitioners, scholars, and students opportunities for rich discussions about the nature of health and community and the relation of democracy, spirituality, and neighborliness to such fundamental constructs. Toward that end, the Symposium combines the efforts of Clemson University's Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life with those of three co-sponsoring national or international scientific and professional organizations (the American Orthopsychiatric Association, the International Family Therapy Association, and the International Society for Child Indicators).

Abstracts should be sent in time for receipt by December 15.

The diversity of cultures and disciplines represented in the symposium promises to result in stimulating, novel discussions of ideas that can be applied in research, programs, and policies to strengthen communities and enhance the well-being of children and families.

Crossing professional generations, the Symposium offers special opportunities for students to engage in discussions about the nature and measurement of well-being of individuals, families, and communities. Attention will be given both to objective indicators of quality of life in various domains and to subjective experience of personal meaning, life satisfaction, community cohesion, and personal, parental, and community efficacy.
 

Link to the call for papers and conference website

Link to the conference brochure.

 

Tags: ["symposium", "spirituality", "democracy", "Neighbourhood Life"]
Published Oct. 11, 2010 9:37 AM - Last modified Apr. 17, 2013 4:27 PM