• Assessing Wellbeing in Schools
  • Introduction
  • A Measure Suited for Your School
  • Measures of Child Wellbeing
  • Measures of Child Wellbeing at School
  • Measures of Adult Wellbeing
  • Measures of Adult Wellbeing at Work
  • Measures of Cultural Wellbeing
  • Other Resources
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  • Glossary

    Appreciative Inquiry

    A strengths based approach to change created by Dr. David Cooperrider involving the 5 D's: definition, discovery, dream, design, and destiny

    Dual Continuum Approach to Wellbeing

    A perspective that places individuals' wellbeing on two different continuum of struggling and flourishing

    EPOCH

    An adaptation of Dr. Martin Seligman's PERMA framework for adolescents which argues that adolescent wellbeing consists of Engagement, Perseverance, Optimism, Connectedness, and Happiness

    Flourishing

    The state of experiencing wellbeing

    Growth Mindset

    A mental framework that believes intelligence and personality can be developed through personal effort

    Negative Affect

    Negative emotions such as sadness, fear, or anxiety

    PERMA

    Dr. Martin Seligman's widely used wellbeing framework which defines wellbeing as a product of Positive emotion, Engagement, Meaning, positive Relationships, and Accomplishment

    PERMAH

    An adaptation of Dr. Martin Seligman's PERMA framework which defines wellbeing as a product of Positive emotion, Engagement, Meaning, positive Relationships, Accomplishment, and physical Health

    Positive Affect

    Positive emotions such as happiness or joy

    Systems Map

    A visual representation of how factors within a network influence each other

    Traditional Single Continuum Approach to Wellbeing

    A perspective that places an individuals mental state on one continuum from low amounts of struggle to high amounts of struggle

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