MAP (health technology and life science)
MAP Biotech is an Australian developer and provider of scientifically validated applications, digital therapeutics, and cloud technologies that measure and improve psychosocial wellbeing.[1]
MAP Biotech was founded by Zephyr Bloch-Jorgensen in 2010 and is responsible for the development and scientific evaluation of centeredness theory.[2][3]
The three cornerstones of its operations center around the life sciences, digital technology, and deep data analytics.[4]
MAP Biotech provides tools and services aligning with the second-wave positive psychology movement and trends in public health that deviate from a traditional focus on pathology and risk factors.[5][6]
These resources target the development of individual qualities and a personal life that promotes centeredness (self-actualization) rather than simply negating mental illness, supporting the upper end of the wellbeing spectrum.[1]
MAP Biotech develops and distributes tools that support this side of human experience. One tool is the 60-item assessment and wellbeing-tracking tool called Meta-Analysis Profile (MAP) that helps individuals measure and support dynamic changes to their wellbeing on both a holistic basis and in a workplace context. The questions comprising the assessment explore the respondent’s primary relationship, relationships with family, personal values, beliefs, goal setting, and the sense of fulfilment derived from involvement in one’s community and workplace.[7]
Its mission is to democratize wellbeing and make self-actualization[8] (conceptualized as centeredness) an egalitarian reality.[1] It forwards this mission by enabling people worldwide to explore and enhance their wellbeing.[9]
MAP Biotech has supported contributions to basic and clinical research in the fields of behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, and public mental health,[5][10][11] and continues to forward research and discoveries in the areas of human potential and wellbeing according to the principles of centeredness theory.[2][3]
History[edit]
The principles of centeredness theory that underlie MAP’s technologies were first established in Bloch-Jorgensen’s book, MAP: Living a Centered Life.[12]
In the book, Bloch-Jorgensen put forward a conceptualization of centeredness and drew on principles from philosophy, spirituality, psychology, and the natural sciences to define a new paradigm for mental health and wellbeing. In 2012, MAP released V1 of Meta-Analysis Profile (MAP), featuring a 60-item assessment of centeredness.[13][11][14]
This assessment was scientifically validated with user responses from 38 countries[15] in collaboration with the not-for-profit research institute NeuRA,[2] specializing in brain and nervous system diseases, disorders, and injuries.[2]
This research was published in the peer-reviewed, open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology in 2018 and led to the release of the V2 (Enterprise Edition) of MAP-by-MAP, which integrated these research findings and algorithmic improvements to the psychometric scale.[16][17]
The publication of the research also empirically evidenced the theoretical principles of centeredness theory–the underpinning for MAP’s tools and services. Given this, further technologies, licenses, services, and collaborative initiatives generated by MAP were developed based on centeredness theory’s principles, which are proposed to have wide-ranging applications at micro (individual), meso (group), and macro (global) levels.[18]
Central among these was the application of the centeredness theory framework to work with traumatic brain injury and aphasia by researchers and clinical practitioners at the University of Kentucky and the U.S. Center for Disease Control (“CDC”).[19]
The theory has been used in this setting to guide the development of a motivational interviewing schedule, which explores life aspects that are important to patients and interact across the theory’s five domains as part of a ‘life participation approach’ to managing aphasia (LPAA).[20]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "GSA Wellbeing Summit". wellbeing.generalsurgeons.com.au. Retrieved 2022-08-09.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 NeuRA (2016-04-19). "E-health industry partnership studies (2011-)". NeuRA. Retrieved 2022-08-09.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bloch-Jorgensen, Zephyr T.; Cilione, Patrick J.; Yeung, William W. H.; Gatt, Justine M. (2018-05-01). "Centeredness Theory: Understanding and Measuring Well-Being Across Core Life Domains". Frontiers in Psychology. 9: 610. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00610. ISSN 1664-1078. PMC 5938389. PMID 29765344.
- ↑ "IEU NSW / ACT - Wellbeing: The new frontier". IEU NSW / ACT. Retrieved 2022-08-09.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ivtzan, Itai; Lomas, Tim; Hefferon, Kate; Worth, Piers. Second Wave Positive Psychology: Embracing the Dark Side of Life. doi:10.4324/9781315740010/second-wave-positive-psychology-itai-ivtzan-tim-lomas-kate-hefferon-piers-worth. Search this book on
- ↑ "Neurogenic communication disorders and the life participation approach: the social imperative in supporting individuals and families". en.x-mol.com. Retrieved 2022-08-09.
- ↑ "Newsletter of The Riverina Anglican College - Issue 8: DIRECTOR OF STUDENTS REPORT". newsletters.naavi.com. Retrieved 2022-08-09.
- ↑ "APA PsycNet". psycnet.apa.org. Retrieved 2022-08-09.
- ↑ "Explore and enhance wellbeing". www.apa.org. Retrieved 2022-08-09.
- ↑ "APA PsycNet". psycnet.apa.org. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "mental well-being scale: Topics by Science.gov". www.science.gov. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
- ↑ "MAP: Living a Centered Life".
- ↑ Bloch-Jorgensen, Zephyr T.; Cilione, Patrick J.; Yeung, William W. H.; Gatt, Justine M. (2020-03-09). "Centeredness Theory Scale". doi:10.1037/t75314-000.
- ↑ "Newsletter of The Riverina Anglican College - Issue 8: DIRECTOR OF STUDENTS REPORT". newsletters.naavi.com. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
- ↑ Bloch-Jorgensen, Zephyr T.; Cilione, Patrick J.; Yeung, William W. H.; Gatt, Justine M. (2018). "Centeredness Theory: Understanding and Measuring Well-Being Across Core Life Domains". Frontiers in Psychology. 9. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00610/full. ISSN 1664-1078.
- ↑ "Associate Professor Justine Gatt". UNSW Sites. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
- ↑ "Loop | Publication Impact | Centeredness Theory: Understanding and Measuring Well-Being Across Core Life Domains". loop-impact.frontiersin.org. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
- ↑ Bloch-Jorgensen, Zephyr T.; Cilione, Patrick J.; Yeung, William W. H.; Gatt, Justine M. (2018). "Corrigendum: Centeredness Theory: Understanding and Measuring Well-Being Across Core Life Domains". Frontiers in Psychology. 9. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01648/full. ISSN 1664-1078.
- ↑ "ACRM 97th Annual VIRTUAL Conference". www.eventscribe.net. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
- ↑ "Publications | Plural Publishing". www.pluralpublishing.com. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
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