Acknowledgements. Preface. What is this Book About? Overview of the Book. Part 1. Understanding Lifestyle Balance and its Link to Wellbeing. 1. What is Life Balance? 2. Doing Too Much in Paid Work. 3. Obligatory, Non-Obligatory and Meaningful Activities. 4. Stress, Burnout and Rust-Out in Life Imbalance. Part 2. Moving from 'Doing' too much to Reconciling Being, Becoming and Belonging. 5. Finding Life Balance: Strategies for Change. 6. Managing Life Imbalance: Living in the Moment. 7. Meaning and Time. 8. Creating Wellbeing in Workplaces. 9. The Intricate Web of Life Balance. Glossary. Figures and Tables. References.
Practical tools and techniques to find life balance and wellbeing at individual, family and community levels
Teena J. Clouston is a Reader in Occupational Therapy and Life Balance at the School of Healthcare Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. Over the last ten years, her research interests have become focused on the meaning and experience of lifestyle balance, and her PhD specifically studied the influences of paid work on finding balance in everyday life. Teena also has experience of management positions in the National Health Service in the UK, built on a clinical career in occupational therapy and counselling.
Occupational Scientist Teena Clouston offers tools for healthcare
professionals and service providers, teachers and homemakers,
workers and job seekers, and caregivers and retirees, to build
better lives by balancing what matters most. Clouston pits current
research on improving quality of life against the wider forces
driving stressful lifestyles worldwide. No one-size-fits-all remedy
exists for the debilitating effects of stress. Yet each of us can
find the just-right balance of "doing, being, becoming and
belonging".
*Gelya Frank, PhD, Professor, Occupational Science & Occupational
Therapy and Anthropology, University of Southern California,
USA*
As an occupational therapist Dr Teena Clouston is an expert in
doing. In this very useful book Teena uses her occupational science
expertise to explore lifestyle balance and how doing too much can
be addressed by applying concepts of being, becoming and belonging.
The accessible writing style of this excellent book allows readers
to explore and understand neo-liberalism and its role in creating
our Western 'busyness'. I recommend it to all those who work with
and/or experience lifestyle imbalance.
*Annie Turner, Emeritus Professor of Occupational Therapy,
University of Northampton, and Chair, The Elizabeth Casson
Trust*
In this brilliantly written book, Dr Clouston presents a
thought-provoking reconceptualization of the notion of occupational
balance. She argues that living a balanced life means resisting the
neoliberal capitalistic pressure to value "doing" over other
aspects of life, and instead pursuing personally meaningful
occupations that enable "doing, being, becoming, and belonging".
This is a must-read textbook for anyone who is interested in ideas
about meaningful living through focused engagement in valued
occupations.
*Moses N. Ikiugu, PhD, OTR/L, Professor and Director of Research,
Occupational Therapy, University of South Dakota*
This practical resource addresses a problem affecting many
professionals worldwide. It will be of particular interest to help
professionals, including occupational therapists, counsellors and
therapists, and will allow them to apply the theories of work-life
balance to real life in straightforward and tangible ways.
*StudentNurse.net*
A Practical Guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 is an invaluable
resource for any health and social care professionals working with
individuals who lack decision-making capacity.
*StudentNurse.net*
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