ABSTRACT
This chapter compares and contrasts the ways in which different professions view wellbeing including health, education, social care, policing and youth work. These differences arise from each profession's construct of the child, the young person, the family, or indeed the community. The chapter proposes different disciplinary lenses to these perspectives of wellbeing. It considers how organisational development considers wellbeing, and how the wellbeing of professionals is as important as that of children, young people and families (CYPF) they are trying to support. To understand the ways in which professionals work with CYPF, and specifically wellbeing and social justice, it investigates the 'construct' of the child, young person, or family, which they are working from. If one takes children as a working example, professionals learn a particular version of the truth in training. Their discipline will have a certain construct of a child and childhood and this determines how they think about and work with children.
