Well-Being, Resilience and Quality of Life from Children’s Perspectives

Silvia Exenberger is Dr. rer. nat. in Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Clinical and health psychologist. She is presently employed as external lecturer at the Department of Psychology and Research and Development advisor at SOS Children’s Villages International. She was previously awarded with a funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme, Marie Curie Actions, International Outgoing Fellowships where she held a post-doctoral position. For two years she lived in India where she carried out a research project on long-term effects of trauma in children after the Indian Ocean Tsunami and the children’s well-being. Her research interests are in the field of clinical psychology with a focus on traumatology, and positive psychology focusing on (child) well-being, quality of life and resilience.  Barbara Juen is Ao. Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Clinical and health psychologist, Head of Psychosocial Services at the Austrian Red Cross, Scientific Advisor of the European Network for Psychosocial Support and the IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support. Her research interests are acute traumatization and psychotraumatology. Her work focus is clinical psychology, emergency psychology and crisis intervention.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1: Social Indicators and the Concepts of Quality of Life, Subjective Well-Being and Resilience.- Chapter 2: Culture and Child Well-Being.- Chapter 3: Child Well-Being.- Chapter 4: Development of Child Well-Being Indicators Four Years after the Tsunami Disaster.- Chapter 5: Children’s Voices on Their Well-Being: A Child Well-Being Index.- Conclusions.- References.