Editorial

Abstract

and research that increased wellbeing happens through participants being able to re fl ect on and prioritize di ffi culties they face in a process that then leads to acquiring and achieving impetus and action toward improving their lives and wellbeing. The authors challenge these assumptions by showing that their engagement with mothers of disabled children in this South African settlement exhibited improvements to wellbeing apart from the process of being able to re fl ect, prioritize, and then act. They argue that wellbeing was enhanced in and through relationships these mothers formed with other mothers of disabled children in the study. Van der Mark et al. argue that using the lens of relationships challenges accounts that focus on and measure indi-vidual achievements of wellbeing. Their account of relational wellbeing is better able to capture the background conditions of daily and intersecting challenges that these mothers face and how improvements to wellbeing can happen in and through relationships with those similarly and locally situated as they act together to change their lives and improve their wellbeing