This paper explores the ways in which community wellbeing is, and could be, related to individual subjective wellbeing by mapping current practice, teasing out the assumptions underlying a dominant approach and flagging neglected issues. The notion of community is widely understood as about something more than the sum of the parts. Capturing subjective aspects of local life that are not simply individual but reflect the ways in which people feel and are well together is a challenging undertaking. Most existing frameworks for assessing community wellbeing are premised on a theory of the self as an autonomous, rational and independently acting or feeling individual, and the primary interest is on how community aspects of life impact on individual subjective wellbeing. This dominant approach consistently neglects spatial and social inequalities, multiple settings and scales and temporal choices and legacies, all of which constitute important political dimensions to community wellbeing. Social theories of the self as relational put relations as prior to subjectivity and as such afford ways to conceptualise community wellbeing in terms of being well together. A relational approach can also offer routes to tackling the complex interactions of inequality, scale and time. Such an approach is not, however, easily translated into quantitative measures or simple policy interventions. The approach taken to community wellbeing is not a technological issue but a political choice.

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Being well together : individual subjective and community wellbeing.

The aims of this project were to map the location and density of gambling machines in Britain; to explore whether geographic areas with higher densities of machines exist and to examine the socio-economic characteristics of these areas relative to others. Using geospatial analysis of premises records, we identified 8861 Machine Zones which were areas with a 400 meter radius around gambling machine venue and 384 High Density Machine Zones (HDMZ) with 1 or more gambling machine per hectare. There was a significant correlation between machine density and socio-economic deprivation. HDMZs had greater levels of income deprivation, more economically inactive people and a younger age profile than other areas; 37 % of those living in HDMZs were economically inactive compared with 33 % of those in non-machine areas. HDMZs were in seaside locations but also New Towns or satellite towns to major urban areas. Area affluence explains some of this pattern; of the New Towns with HDMZs, 78 % were in New Towns with a high proportion of low income areas. We therefore concluded that the distribution of gambling machines in Great Britain, in line with other international jurisdictions, displays a significant association with areas of socio-economic deprivation. The profile of the resident population living in HDMZs mirrors the profile of those most at-risk of experiencing harm from gambling. This spatial pattern has important implications for assessing the relationship between gambling availability and gambling-related harm, and for the future development of policy, harm-prevention and treatment strategies.

‘Risky Places?’: Mapping Gambling Machine Density and Socio-Economic Deprivation

Epidemiological, clinical and neurobiological studies of the last 30 years suggest that traumatic attachments during the early years of life (developmental trauma) cause a specific vulnerability to psychopathological developments based on dissociative pathogenic processes that interferes … Dissociative processes are manifested in various symptoms: arousal dysregulation, dissociative detachment (dissociation of consciousness: e.g. depersonalization), dissociative compartmentalization (dissociation among ego states), somatoform symptoms (somatoform dissociation), emotional and behavioral regulation difficulties and severe interpersonal problems. In adult clinical populations dissociative processes and the related symptoms may either contribute to the genesis of well-defined disorders such as dissociative, borderline and complex post-traumatic, or variably occur in many other DSM or ICD diagnostic categories complicating their clinical pictures and worsening the prognosis. The clinical complexity of developmental trauma requires specific training to enable mental health professionals to recognize the signs of traumatic developments and to implement specific treatment strategies. Besides an introductory overview of the literature on clinical problems and treatment strategies for the sequels in adulthood of developmental trauma, this paper offers an outline on three issues on the adult outcome of developmental trauma and its therapy: the role of disorganized attachment, the need to distinguish disintegrative and dissociative pathogenic processes and the usefulness of traumatic-dissociative psychopathological dimension for clinical reasoning of the contributions of attachment theory and research to the developmental psychopathology of adult disorders related to cumulative traumas in childhood.

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The Role of Attachment Trauma and Disintegrative Pathogenic Processes in the Traumatic-Dissociative Dimension.

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Studies have demonstrated links between the accessibility of food and multiple health outcomes. Policymakers engaged in local community development may use public health concerns as a strategy to p...

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Community development and the influence of new food retail sources on the price and availability of nutritious food

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