Walter Osika – författare

Den svenska skolan har unika förutsättningar att ge alla elever en god utbildning och, med elevhälsan som resurs, främja elevernas fortsatta utveckling och hälsa. Trots detta visar internationella jämförelser att svenska elever inte bara upplever sig må sämre än unga i jämförbara länder, utan även presterar sämre i de kunskapsprov som ingår i de internationella PISA-undersökningarna. Detta är en utveckling som både kan och måste vändas. Här kan elevhälsan spela en central roll genom återkommande hälsokontroller, tvärprofessionellt samarbete och tillgång till evidensbaserade metoder.Samtliga kapitel i denna tredje upplaga är uppdaterade. De speglar elevhälsans breda uppdrag och sammanfattar de specifika lagstadgande åligganden som gäller elevhälsans medicinska insats. Boken syftar till att, i den kunskapsutveckling som sker, identifiera evidensbaserade insatser och metoder för elevhälsan.I denna upplaga har nya relevanta ämnen inkluderats: barn som utsätts för våld och barn som våldsutövare, en fördjupad syn på neuropsykiatrin samt elevers oro för klimatförändringarna. Nya kapitel tar även upp samhällets digitalisering och digitala mediers påverkan på elevers lärande och hälsa.Målgruppen är blivande och redan yrkesverksamma skolläkare samt skolsköterskor. Boken kan med fördel även läsas av rektorer, specialpedagoger, psykologer och kuratorer.

This book explores how various AI tools, psychedelics such as psilocybin, meditation techniques—particularly attention-focused training and compassion training—and virtue training might support, inform, or undermine virtue development and good decision-making. Such cognitive and moral improvements could plausibly enhance our ability to co-create a more resilient and regenerative future.The book argues that multimodal, lifestyle-driven neuroenhancement strategies—for example, combinations of meditation and AI tools—currently offer the most promising path forward. Psychedelics, as well as more integrated forms of technology, have considerable potential, but much more research is required before such strategies can be considered safe and ethically acceptable outside carefully regulated clinical and therapeutic contexts.This book offers readers an accessible introduction to a range of neuroenhancement methods and explores how these practices could help us become better decision-makers and improve our moral virtues. It is of interest for anyone seeking a discussion of neuroenhancement from the perspective of secular ethics.

This book explores how one can bring about changes in the brain through meditation, both through attention-focus training and through compassion training. Recent findings in the natural sciences have confirmed that it is possible for humans to achieve these structural and functional changes through various life-style practices. It is argued that meditation enables us to influence some aspects of our biological make-up and, for example, could boost our cognitive flexibility as well as our ability to act compassionate. Such changes are likely to facilitate the instilling of a number of epistemic virtues which have great bearing on our quality of life. This book offers the reader an accessible introduction to a set of neuro-enhancement methods, with a special focus on meditation techniques, and explores how such practices could contribute to make us better decision-makers and improve our moral virtues. The book is suitable for anyone looking for a text discussing the effects of neuro-enhancement from a secular ethics perspective.

This book explores how one can bring about changes in the brain through meditation, both through attention-focus training and through compassion training. Recent findings in the natural sciences have confirmed that it is possible for humans to achieve these structural and functional changes through various life-style practices. It is argued that meditation enables us to influence some aspects of our biological make-up and, for example, could boost our cognitive flexibility as well as our ability to act compassionate. Such changes are likely to facilitate the instilling of a number of epistemic virtues which have great bearing on our quality of life. This book offers the reader an accessible introduction to a set of neuro-enhancement methods, with a special focus on meditation techniques, and explores how such practices could contribute to make us better decision-makers and improve our moral virtues. The book is suitable for anyone looking for a text discussing the effects of neuro-enhancement from a secular ethics perspective.