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A Review of School-Based Positive Psychology Interventions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2012

Lea Waters
Lea Waters*
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne, Australia
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Address for correspondence: Professor Lea Waters, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, 717, 100 Leicester Street, Parkville VIC 3052, Australia. E-mail: l.waters@unimelb.edu.au

Abstract

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The aim of this paper is to review school-based interventions that have been designed to foster student wellbeing and academic performance by following a positive psychology approach that seeks to cultivate positive emotions, resilience and positive character strengths. Following the calls of the 21st century education movement for schools to incorporate student wellbeing as a focus of learning, the current paper outlines the positive psychology movement and reviews evidence from 12 school-based positive psychology interventions that have been systematically evaluated. The evidence shows that positive psychology programs are significantly related to student wellbeing, relationships and academic performance. The paper makes suggestions for the further development of positive psychology interventions in schools and explores the factors that could allow positive psychology to be extended, and more systematically embedded, into schools.

Keywords

Hopegratitudeserenityresiliencecharacter strengths
Type
Articles
Information
The Educational and Developmental Psychologist , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , 01 December 2011 , pp. 75 - 90
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011