Building Happiness, Resilience and Motivation in Adolescents: A Positive Psychology Curriculum for Well-Being Paperback – January 6, 2012

Great activities and lessons

There are portions of the book I've found helpful when working with adolescents; having permission to utilize the worksheets also has been a great resource. Diverse worksheets provide a wide variety of learning levels; this could be implemented in small groups as well as individual and/or family style settings.

We're using this as inspirational ideas for integrated arts and well being in the classroom. Perfect.

I love this book. I develop strengths-based well-being programs for schools in South Africa, and this will be a wonderful source of tools and ideas for the middle and upper grades. The first section provides a solid but succinct review of positive psychology and the link between strengths and flourishing; the second section reviews each of the 24 VIA character strengths and offers four tools for teaching those strengths to children, along with notes for the facilitator. A must-have for any school or teacher wanting to give their students the tools to make themselves happier, more resilient and more internally-motivated.There is mention on the book's cover of complementary online resources, but I haven't been able to find those -- if the author or other readers can direct me to them, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Really liked the exercises - they're ready-made/ ready to go, practical, pretty straightforward, and learners should find them fun to do.I've been trying them out, though at a post-adolescent level, and yet most leaners liked them, though some took some warming up over a number of weeks - until they started 'getting' their point. (Maybe they even became more positive, along the dimensions of the title - but I wasn't conducting a formal study to determine this.)The accompanying text is less useful - it's fairly basic, in my opinion - but ghen there are other texts if you want to read up on the theory.If you're looking for a book with practical exercises, I'd recommend it.

Very useful when I was putting together a series of presentations on emotional literacy.

Would recommend this book full of resources for delivering seal to young people. A good book to read useful tips.