The National Wellbeing Service publishes three academic online journals: 

– International Journal of Stress Prevention and Wellbeing (IJSPW)
– European Journal of Counselling Theory, Research and Practice (EJC-TRAP)
– European Journal of Applied Positive Psychology (EJAPP)

We now have a central hub so that the articles can be found on one page: http://www.nationalwellbeingservice.net/nws-journal-articles-2017/

Take a look if you are interested stress prevention, wellbeing, counselling and/or applied positive psychology. All articles can be viewed online.

Why ‘Wellbeing’ & Not ‘Well-being’?

Why ‘wellbeing‘ and not ‘well-being‘? The National Wellbeing Service is in agreement with the following statement made by the scholarly International Journal of Wellbeing:

The decision to close the hyphenated gap between ‘well’ and ‘being’ is intentionally forward looking. We know that in some disciplines (e.g. philosophy) wellbeing is still hyphenated. A cursory glance over journals from other disciplines demonstrates that many of them are already making the transition to dropping the hyphen. We expect that the hyphen will eventually disappear from all disciplines because of how the term is usually used. Both ‘well-being’ and ‘wellbeing’ most often refer to the general subject or topic of what makes a life go well for someone; they both tend to include consideration of things that makes peoples’ lives go better and worse. To avoid confusion about when ‘well-being’ means the opposite of ill-being and when it means the topic of what makes a life go well for someone, we propose the following. ‘Wellbeing’ should to refer to the topic of what makes a life go well for someone and ‘well-being’ should refer to the more specific concept – the opposite of ill-being.

• The International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) was founded in 2007 with a tri-part mission: To promote the science of positive psychology and its research-based applications. To facilitate collaboration among researchers, teachers, students, and practitioners of positive psychology around the world and across academic disciplines. To share the findings of positive psychology with the broadest possible audience.

• The European Network for Positive Psychology (ENPP) is a collective of European researchers and practitioners with shared interests in the science and practice of positive psychology. Researchers and practitioners from other disciplines like economics, sociology, philosophy or biology are also invited to participate.