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1 The Wheel of Wellness. © J. M. Witmer, T. J. Sweeney, and J. E. Myers (1996). Reprinted with permission.
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The profession of counseling has served clients for more than 100 years, and professional counselors provide client-centered services that foster wellness for all persons (Chi Sigma Iota, n.d.), without restrictions based on demographic factors (e.g., age, gender); cultural differences (e.g., rural vs. urban); individual uniqueness (e.g., disabilit...
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... The WoW offered a conceptualization of wellness founded on principles of counseling and psychology, and incorporated ideas of human growth and lifespan development (Myers et al., 2000). Hattie et al. (2004) found that the 17 components of wellness proposed by the WoW are empirically based, distinct factors of wellness; however the proposed relationships between these factors and the structure of the WoW was not supported (Shannonhouse et al., 2015). The WoW has since been adjusted to more accurately conceptualize the components of wellness. ...
This study explored the structure validity and sex and country measurement invariance for Filipino and U.S. adults using the Five Factor Wellness Inventory (FFWEL-A2).
... Myers and Sweeney (2008a) explain that there are five life tasks that are crucial for healthy human functioning, including work, love, self, friendship, and spirituality. Health will be achieved when religious beliefs and individual aspects of meaning and making life goals are achieved (Shannonhouse et al., 2018). Spirituality becomes an essential self-subfactor that has coping efforts in going through life's challenges (Clarke et al., 2020). ...
This research describes the wellness paradigm. Holistic health in wellness means health in many areas, including physical, psychological, social and spiritual health. The wheel of wellness is a holistic health picture of the wellness paradigm, with 17 supporting components, the core being spirituality or religiosity. This study focuses on adolescents who have unique period development such as in social development. This research analyzes daily spiritual experiences related to students' friendships mediated by religious coping. This quantitative research involved 246 Muslim high school students aged 14-18 years and in grades 10 to 12. There are three scales with valid and reliable instruments such as 1) the friendship scale 2) the religious coping scale and 3) the spiritual experience scale. Hypothesis testing found that spiritual experience and religious coping had a low contribution but a significant in affecting friendship, it means that spiritual experiences and religious coping influence friendship patterns. Interestingly, spiritual experience plays a significant role and contributes highly to affect religious coping. The contribution of spiritual experience to friendship increases when mediated by religious coping. This shows that religious coping has a partial mediating role in the relationship between spiritual experience and friendship.
... The WoW model's multi-dimensional nature explores the expression of personal wellness as a function of five interrelated life tasks as they interact with external life forces, which are, in turn, influenced by the broader context of global events (Myers et al., 2000;Roscoe, 2009). Spirituality is conceived as the central life task of the WoW model, further integrating the life tasks of self-direction (previously called self-regulation), work and leisure, friendship, and love (Myers & Sweeney, 2004;Shannonhouse, Myers, & Sweeney, 2016). The life forces include family, community, religion, education, government, media and business or industry, while global events include natural or human-made disasters, such as war, pollution, and poverty (Myers et al., 2000;Witmer & Sweeney, 1992). ...
The study investigates Sol Plaatje’s (1876–1932) spiritual wellness across his lifespan. He was purposively sampled due to his impact upon South African society. As an intellectual, novelist, journalist, and politician, Plaatje was also a founder member of the South African Native National Congress, which later became the African National Congress. His life history reflected a significant degree of spiritual wellness, which was uncovered through the systematic analysis of publicly available life-history materials, including primary and secondary sources. The Wheel of Wellness (WoW) model by Sweeney and Witmer was applied to interpret the biographical evidence of spirituality and meaning in his life. Spirituality, as the central life task of the WoW, and regarded as the most influential domain of a healthy individual, incorporates religious beliefs and other individualised aspects of meaning-making. Findings indicate that spirituality characterised Plaatje’s childhood years and continued to play a role throughout his adult years. His sense of meaning and purpose was personified in the promotion and preservation of human rights and dignity, which embraced inter-racial respect, compassion, and service to others.
... These factors were integrated into the evidence-based Indivisible Self model of wellness (IS-Wel) and its associated instrument, the Five-Factor Wellness Inventory (5F-Wel; Myers & Sweeney, 2005c;Shannonhouse et al., 2020). Sweeney and Myers (2005) recommended that counselors use both an evidence-based model such as the IS-Wel and an assessment such as the 5F-Wel to help clients develop personal wellness plans that improve the client's wellness in specific areas and therefore enhance their holistic wellness (Myers & Sweeney, 2006). Myers and Sweeney (2005c) also found that a person's wellness is affected by local, institutional, global, and chronometrical factors. ...
Foundational to counseling, wellness and counselors’ attention to the integration of wellness-related counseling assessments and interventions are preventative and unique to the profession. This manuscript presents the process of delineating counselor wellness competencies based on evidence-based research, professional ethics, and educational and practice standards. Nine specific competencies of counselor, professional and client-centered wellness are discussed.
... Essentially, the 5F-Wel is a culmination of several decades of work to operationalize constructs that are rooted in Adler's (1927Adler's ( /1954 individual psychology. For a brief elaboration on how the underlying conceptual model of wellness evolved from the wheel of wellness to the indivisible self model of wellness (Myers & Sweeney, 2005a), see Shannonhouse et al. (2015). For a detailed explanation, see Myers and Sweeney (2008). ...
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... Indeed, preexisting mental and physical health conditions before CID contribute much to one's wellness and resiliency (Shannonhouse, Myers, & Sweeney, 2016), especially in the case older individuals. It may become an asset or protective factor in dealing with issues of loss and grief during older adulthood. ...
... Wellness counseling can also serve as a platform for women diagnosed with PCOS to learn about the importance of self-care in relation to physical health (Elliot, 2013). Sweeney and Myers (2004) suggested four steps to wellness counseling: (a) introduction of a wellness model, including a life-span focus; (b) assessments that can be formal or informal, based on the model; (c) interventions based on selected areas to enhance wellness; and (d) evaluation, follow-up, and repetition of the second and third steps, if necessary. ...
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... In contrast, interventions such as using social media to reconnect with former friends or using an exercise app such as MyFitnessPal could help to increase a client's wellness. Sweeney and Myers (2005) proposed that data from a formal or an informal assessment of holistic wellness be used to help a client establish a personal wellness plan. To create this plan, the client selects two or three areas where wellness could be improved and develops realistic goals to increase wellness in each area. ...
The purpose of this study was to operationalize TechnoWellness by designing an assessment instrument, the TechnoWellness Inventory (TWI), and to explore the relationship between individuals’ TechnoWellness and their holistic wellness. Exploratory factor analysis (N = 312) supported a 76-item instrument with five subscales. Although the TWI factors did not correspond to factors in the Indivisible Self wellness model, regression analyses indicated that scores on the TWI and three TWI scales predicted holistic wellness.
... Although this dissertation did not empirically study the health benefits of counseling, the participants did enjoy their experience, and one of the participants reported feeling healthier and less depressed. This member's perception seems to support Myers and Sweeney's (2005) conclusion that counseling does improve the mental and physical health of senior adults. ...
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