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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin:0px"><strong><strong class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:10pt">Tackling Australia's most challenging health problem: Identifying, prescribing, and unlocking the social cure</strong></strong></span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin:0px">If you are over 50 and you join one social group today you will cut your risk of being diagnosed with depression in the next two years by 24%. With every
group membership that that you join after retirement, your quality of life increases by 10%, and your life expectancy increases by about 3%. Group life is an important determinant of well-being and health, yet its importance is rarely discussed, and far less
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin:0px">This session will explain how groups exert a profound impact on our psychology and health through their capacity to be internalized within the self as
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sense of the self as ‘we' and ‘us', not just ‘me' and ‘I'). It will show that when this occurs, groups are a gateway not only to social support but also to a sense of meaning, belonging, purpose, and agency - factors that in turn have powerful consequences
for our psychological and social functioning. They also play a key role in tackling epidemics of anxiety and loneliness that are a scourge of contemporary Western society. Prof Haslam discusses how these ideas can be translated into practice through targeted
social prescribing and a novel theory-derived intervention: Groups 4 Health. </span></p>
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