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Positive Education in a Nutshell
Historically psychologists have dealt with mental health deficiency or mental illness. One pioneer, Martin Seligman, recognized that the absence of metal illbeing was not the same as mental wellbeing; if you remove unhappiness you don’t get happiness. Thus began the...
Parenting Teens Amid a Teen Mental Health Crisis
The World Health Organisation believes that depression will become the number one cause of the global disease burden by 2030. Mental health is a growing concern globally. As parents, we are expecting our children to change the world but we aren't giving them the...
Did You Know You Can Measure Wellbeing?
The world has become data driven. If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t matter. But for those working in fields like mental health, education, human resources and psychology, there hasn’t been a clear way to measure both the strengths and weaknesses of either an...
The 40% Rule
Happiness. It's hard to define and even more difficult to measure. Until recently psychologists and researchers wouldn't even use the word. Instead, terms like subjective well-being or positive emotion were substituted. You would think that humans could agree that a...
The Seven Domains of Well-being
Have questions or comments about any of these domains? We'd love to hear them. Comment below or ask us on social...
Is There a Workout for Your Mental Wellness?
For many years scientists believed that the brain stopped developing new neural pathways after the first few years of life. This meant that critical periods of development were from birth to 5 years of age and brains would only be plastic during youth. The new science...
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