A review of character strengths interventions in twenty-first-century schools: Their importance and how they can be fostered

S Lavy - Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2020 - Springer
A main challenge of educational organizations is how to foster students' capacity to fulfill
their potential. The present paper, based on educational, psychological, and organizational …

The impact of mindfulness on the wellbeing and performance of educators: A systematic review of the empirical literature

T Lomas, JC Medina, I Ivtzan, S Rupprecht… - Teaching and Teacher …, 2017 - Elsevier
Given the potentially demanding nature of teaching, efforts are underway to develop
practices that can improve the wellbeing of educators, including interventions based on …

Exploring the association between coronavirus stress, meaning in life, psychological flexibility, and subjective well-being

G Arslan, KA Allen - Psychology, Health & Medicine, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
There has been a call to action from much of the community to urgently investigate stress
and well-being during the global health crisis instigated by COVID-19. This study seeks to …

Shifting teacher practice in trauma-affected classrooms: Practice pedagogy strategies within a trauma-informed positive education model

T Brunzell, H Stokes, L Waters - School Mental Health, 2019 - Springer
This study explored how primary and secondary school teachers changed their practice
pedagogy as they underwent training in trauma-informed positive education (Brunzell et al …

Trauma-informed positive education: Using positive psychology to strengthen vulnerable students

T Brunzell, H Stokes, L Waters - Contemporary School Psychology, 2016 - Springer
This paper explores the role of a positive education paradigm in mainstream and specialist
classrooms for students who have experienced complex trauma resulting from abuse …

A randomized controlled pilot trial of classroom-based mindfulness meditation compared to an active control condition in sixth-grade children

WB Britton, NE Lepp, HF Niles, T Rocha… - Journal of School …, 2014 - Elsevier
The current study is a pilot trial to examine the effects of a nonelective, classroom-based,
teacher-implemented, mindfulness meditation intervention on standard clinical measures of …

Review of brief school-based positive psychological interventions: A taster for teachers and educators

R Shankland, E Rosset - Educational Psychology Review, 2017 - Springer
Research studies looking into the effects of positive psychology interventions (PPIs)
implemented in classrooms have yielded promising results, not only in terms of student well …

SEARCH: A meta-framework and review of the field of positive education

L Waters, D Loton - International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology, 2019 - Springer
This paper presents a data-driven, meta-framework to support evidence-based decisions for
researchers and practitioners when designing, investigating and implementing positive …

Effectiveness of a school-based mindfulness program for transdiagnostic prevention in young adolescents

C Johnson, C Burke, S Brinkman, T Wade - Behaviour research and therapy, 2016 - Elsevier
Anxiety, depression and eating disorders show peak emergence during adolescence and
share common risk factors. School-based prevention programs provide a unique opportunity …

Students and teachers benefit from mindfulness-based stress reduction in a school-embedded pilot study

S Gouda, MT Luong, S Schmidt, J Bauer - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Objective: There is a research gap in studies that evaluate the effectiveness of a school-
embedded mindfulness-based intervention for both students and teachers. To address this …