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Happiness and Spirituality, evening talk with Sunil Sharma, Thurs 28th Aug 2008
Happiness and Spirituality: an Eastern Perspective on Positive Psychology
Sunil Sharma biography
Creating Confident Individuals - Thursday 18th Sept, (morning), Oran Mor, Glasgow
Creating Confident Individuals: a masterclass on the Curriculum for Excellence
Speaker biographies
Growing Success - Thursday 18th Sept (afternoon), Oran Mor, Glasgow
Growing Success: a powerful masterclass on strengths, motivation and potential
Professor Carol Dweck biography
Dr Alex Linley biography
External events calendar
External Events Calendar
5th European Conference on Positive Psychology
1st World Congress on Positive Psychology
Music, Health and Happiness Conference
Understanding Depression
Non-pharmacological management of depression
Carl Honore on Children and Society
The Curriculum for Excellence: Learning for All
Sergio Della Sala on Science and Education
Sue Palmer on Detoxing Childhood
Positive Psychology Evening Classes
Bill Rodgers Behaviour Management Courses
Child Health and Well Being 2008
Building Relationships and Managing Behaviour: Applying Restorative Approaches to School Settings
Autistic Spectrum Disorder and ADHD conference
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The Centre's views on young people's well-being/confidence
The Centre's publication: Creating Confidence
'Creating Confidence' Handbook
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Defining confidence
View short videos of Carol Craig, Centre's Chief Executive, talking about our research and views
Bounce Back/resilience
Bounce Back
The root of the resilience problem in schools
Theoretical background to resilience
The Bounce Back Programme
Forthcoming Bounce Back courses in Scotland
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Should resilience be taught in schools?
The Centre's 10 key messages
Three powerful resiliency building tools
Resilience introductory Powerpoint for parents and teachers
Measuring resilience with the Confidence Research System
Further reading on the Centre's view of resilience
Mindset
Assertive communication
Assertive communication
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Understanding assertive communication
Understanding assertive communication continued
The Centre's course for young people
DVD of scenarios
Potential misuse of assertiveness courses in school
Measuring assertive behaviour
Future training of trainer courses
Attachment and early engagement
Attachment and early engagement
Foundations for flourishing - childhood
Foundations for flourishing: childhood
Dr Carol Craig: Overview
Sue Palmer: Toxic Childhood
Alan Sinclair: The case for early engagement
Professor Jane Aldgate: Better support for vulnerable children
Tim Gill: Giving children the freedom to grow and learn
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The Centre's critique of SEAL
Critique of Emotional Literacy (SEAL)
Seal Report - Summary Paper
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Why young people's resilience is becoming an issue
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10 things parents can do to nurture their child's confidence
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Positive ageing
Ageing well
Practical steps organisations can take to foster positive ageing
The detrimental influence of negative stereotypes
Wisdom and Flamboyance: Flourishing in older age
Audio/PPTs from Wisdom and Flamoyance event
Audio/PPTs from Wisdom and Flamboyance event
PowerPoint presentation: Corey Keyes
Power point presentation: Mary Gilhooley
Social services
Social Workers, Resilience, Positive Emotions and Optimism by Stewart Collins
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Confidence Research System
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Confidence handbook
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Scotland's Tipping Point
Scotland's Tipping Point
Carol Craig on Scotland's Tipping Point
The Vanguard
The Vanguard - Scotland's Positive Psychology
The Vanguard Programme (VP)
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VP: The Scottish Enlightenment theme
VP: The final day
VP: The highlights
VP: Follow up
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Vanguard Series 2006 (VS)
VS: Glasgow 31 May 2006
VS: Inverness 19 September 2006
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The drugs don't work - but therapy will?
Jennifer Aniston to play Harvard Professor.
Positive ageing
Mental health, blood pressure & happiness
How to beat the genetic set point for happiness
How not to talk to your kids
Is it wrong to teach children about feelings?
Why societies should pursue happiness
Job vacancy for lecturer in Positive Psychology
Mellowing with age may help you live longer
Learning about positive psychology
Want to achieve something - like voting tomorrow?
Coaching interventions in educational settings
Handicapping with optimism
Learning from Malawi
Country walks can help reduce depression
Motivation and positive relationships
The (other) Secret
The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis
How children use their local environment
The biology of charitable donations
The science of team success
There's much more to a walk in the park
Children are not mad or bad, they are just scared
Educational site which shares good practice
The Effort Effect
Leave No Child Inside
Virtual 'Vital Friends'
Brain's response means that we learn from mistake
Young people can change the world
The myth of the teen brain
Moving from good to great
Mindset website
Resilience: build skills to endure hardship
Talking about problems is not always a good thing
Self regulation is important for academic success
Gratitude is good medicine for organ recipients
High hope and problem gambling
The impact of well-being on health outcomes
Is depression overdiagnosed? yes.
Good lives don't need to cost the earth
Simple Interventions can reduce achievement gaps
The impact of loneliness on health and well-being
The brain's response to a growth mindset
Raising Grateful Children
Predicting Health vs. Predicting Disease
Resilient parenting
Learning beyond the classroom
Body-mind techniques increase performance
Flourishing
Some things get better with age
Health and economic impact of reducing class sizes
Happiness and recovery from negative events
Optimism and the brain
Bringing parenting classes to the football field
Thought control and chocolate consumption
Living arrangements: happiness, health and old age
Oxytocin reveals why we are generous
Can a lack of sleep cause Psychiatric disorders?
Teamwork improves learning and career success
Violent video games are great aggression teachers
Storytelling for business
Giving is better than receiving
Child well-being and income inequality
Searching for happiness at work
The growth mindset and success
Babies prefer helpers
Disguising unsustainable actions eases our mind
Giving gifts or our time to others is good for us
Attending to the positive reduces worrying
Creative work is good for your health
Cultivating happiness
Brain turns to the positive when faced with death
Happiness can help cut blood pressure and obesity
A new way to think about social relations
Public policy and effects of media violence
Tal's tips for happiness
Mental Health in Education
Exercising judgement: the psychology of fitness
Slowing the hedonic treadmill
Restricting TV time reduces obestiy
Caveman blues
Happiness event
Antidepressant studies unpublished
Work stress and heart disease: the mediators
Why life is good
Who's fooling whom?
From the tennis court to the work place
What makes children happy?
Can people be too happy?
Older people are happy
Debate on teaching happiness
Shifting the focus to staff well-being
Revolution of values
Is happiness fixed from birth?
A resource for young people
The commercialisation of young people
Training in the arts improves thinking
Healthier diets foster success and well-being
Update on Jane Mayer's book and the claims against Martin Seligman
Reflecting on values transcends the self and increases love and acceptance
Happiness is the measure of true wealth
Joining the International Positive Psychology Association
If at first you don't succeed, you're in excellent company
The long tem effect of antidepressants. Who am I?
Values are the key to happiness
More is not always better
Children of active parents are more likely to succeed
Embracing the blues
Giving up cigarettes is socially contagious
It's okay to keep those feelings inside
Artificially boosting happiness in young people impairs learning
Scoring goals comes from having the right stereotype
Grandparents are good for young people's well-being and resilience
Therapeutic education is undermining young people and adults
School ethos can influence smoking behaviour in pupils
Exam success is determined by 'mental toughness' and not intelligence
Growing Success
Less power may equal less success at work
What happens when I think you can change
The Unintended Consequences of Childline
You may not see it, but TV is affecting children
Allegations against Martin Seligman
Nature has a calming effect, watching it on TV doesn't
Happiness and longevity
Don't climb that tree, it's too risky
Are the Scots happy?
The Dark Side: The Centre's view
This is your life (and how you tell it)
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