Community
Wellness
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This group is made up of staff from the School of Psychology and Social Work who share an interest in promoting community
wellness, particularly within the local communities surrounding Victoria
University. Staff bring together backgrounds in community mental health
and related fields, with research and practice experience in areas such
as suicide, adoption, depression, and community development. The
group's current focus is the refinement of a theoretical model of community
wellness grounded in an applied setting, and the development of a tool
to assess community wellness for application within a diverse socio-cultural
community. This undertaking represents a significant development in (i)
the conceptualisation of community wellness by shifting the focus away
from a traditional, reactive model to a proactive, strengths-based framework,
and (ii) the development of a range of culturally sensitive assessment
tools to evaluate community wellness. |