Growing Happy, Healthy Young Minds

Edited by Dr Ramesh Manocha & Gyongyi Horvath
To read the full chapter go to Volume 1, chapter 20, pp. 306-322.

Authors

Dr Justin Coulson

Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Positive Psychology at the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education, and a Senior Associate at the Positive Psychology Institute

Dr Justin Coulson is one of Australia’s most respected relationships speakers, authors, and researchers. He is an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Positive Psychology at the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education, and a Senior Associate at the Positive Psychology Institute. He has authored multiple peerreviewed journal articles and book chapters, and written a number of popular books and e-books about parenting and happiness. In addition, Dr Coulson writes a weekly parenting advice column for Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, appears regularly on the TODAY show and is the parenting expert at kidspot.com.au – Australia’s #1 parenting website.

Website: www.happyfamilies.com.au

Positive Psychology offers evidence-based strategies to support simple interventions to elevate wellbeing and resilience in our teens.

Want to Learn More, Get Help or Find Support?

More resources will be available soon!

There are currently no podcasts available. This page will be updated once new podcasts have been created.

More resources will be available soon!

More resources will be available soon!

Deci, EL & Ryan, RM 2000, ‘The “what” and “why” of goal pursuits: Human needs and the self-determination of behaviour’, Psychological Inquiry, vol. 11, pp 227–268.

Fredrickson, BL 2006, The Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions, Oxford University Press, New York.

Linley, A 2008, Average to A+: Realising strengths in yourself and others, CAPP Press, London.

Lopez, SJ & Snyder, CR (Eds), Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology (2nd ed), Oxford University Press, New York, pp 667–677.

Peterson, C & Seligman, MEP 2004, Character strengths and virtues: A handbook and classification, Oxford University Press, New York.

Seligman, MEP & Csikszentmihalyi, M 2000, ‘Positive psychology: An introduction’, American Psychologist, vol. 55, pp 5–14.

Seligman, MEP, Ernst, RM, Gillham, J, Reivich, K & Linkins, M 2009, ‘Positive education: Positive psychology and classroom interventions’, Oxford Review of Education, vol. 35, pp 293–311.

Snyder, CR & Lopez, SJ 2007, Positive psychology: The scientific and practical explorations of human strengths, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks.

There are no further chapter references for this chapter

Know of any good resources that are not listed here? You can tell us here!