Navigating Mental Wellbeing

This volume discusses the indispensable role of societal dynamics in fostering resilience, mental wellbeing, and developing sustainable community livelihoods. Through insights from Southeast Asian scholars in sociology and anthropology, nursing and midwifery, medicine, psychiatry, and urban planning, this volume explores the interrelationships between community structures, personal and individual beliefs, religious systems, ethnographic experiences, and livelihoods that contribute greatly to and are beneficial for achieving mental health and wellbeing. The contributions to the volume analyze complex mental health problems from a holistic perspective. They cover case studies across the region, and provide solutions ranging from the personal to policy levels. The volume is essential reading for postgraduate scholars, lecturers, scientists, and policy makers to understand and apply multiple-comprehensive approaches in the study of mental health and wellbeing, and to integrate both clinical and social perspectives in their work.