positive education focuses on helping students not only achieve academically, but also to thrive. this workshop will consider what well-being and flourishing is and how well-being science applies to education. core constructs and positive interventions that can be used with individuals, groups, and organizations to build well-being and resilience will be explored. specific activities that can b...

positive psychology as a field focuses on identifying and supporting internal strengths and external resources to promote optimal functioning, flourishing, and resilience in individual, organizations, and communities. research and interventions from the field are helping people be happy, productive, and resilient. from this perspective, each person has a unique set of strengths, which when used...

Tessman responds to her three critics’ comments on Burdened Virtues, focusing on their concerns with her stipulation of an “inclusivity requirement,” according to which one cannot be said to flourish without contributing to the flourishing of an inclusive collectivity. Tessman identifies a naturalized approach to ethics—which she distinguishes from the naturalism she implicitly endorsed in Burd...

While developmental studies predominantly investigated adolescents' mental illness and psychosocial maladjustment, the present research focused on positive mental health of Indian adolescents within the Mental Health Continuum model. Aims were to estimate their prevalence of mental health and to examine its associations with mental distress and psychosocial functioning, taking into account age ...

This article provides a model for understanding the role positive body image can play in the treatment of eating disorders and methods for guiding patients away from symptoms and toward flourishing. The Attuned Representational Model of Self (Cook-Cottone, 2006) and a conceptual model detailing flourishing in the context of body image and eating behavior (Cook-Cottone et al., 2013) are discusse...

Abstract This article reviews work that my colleagues and I have conducted over the past 20 years examining connections of forgiveness others self-forgiveness with flourishing. also highlight our investigating psychoeducational approaches to education. Definitions others, self-forgiveness, divine forgiveness, flourishing are offered at outset. Then turn considering conceptual models connection....