Education for Positive Schools
This is Part 1 in a 3 part series about Communicating with children and young people about sexuality. Children are wonderfully curious and want…
“It is time we stopped thinking of free time as ‘time out’ for kids and realized that it is a vital path to adult…
Neil Porter and Dr Helen Street are helping you take home a little piece of Positive Schools 2014. Better than OK: helping young people…
Modern technology offers increasingly effective solutions for kids with special needs…. not to mention a much needed dose of credibility… All too often,…
BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL — Female students who were more optimistic achieved significantly higher grades than their less optimistic peers, according to a new study by…
The impact of physical exercise on convergent and divergent thinking. Front Hum Neurosci. 2013 Dec 2;7:824. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00824. The impact of physical…
If young people can be helped to understand why the burger looks so dam good in the picture (and incidentally nothing like the real…
EXAMPLES OF AUTOMATIC NEGATIVE THOUGHTS (ANTs) One of the basic assumptions of the cognitive model that underlies much of the broader positive psychology model…
Being able to regulate your emotions is important for well-being, but new research suggests that a common emotion regulation strategy called “cognitive reappraisal” may…
The Brilliance Of Boredom Dr Helen Street How often, as parents and educators, we hear the words “I’m bored!” Or “I can’t…