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Short title: Promoting learner happiness and well-being; UNESCO Asia-Pacific education thematic brief; 2017; Image title: THA/DOC/IQE/17/05-E; Author
The purpose of the GATQ books is to provide honest, unbiased answers to hard questions that can help children as well as adults turn negative experiences into positive ones. The books can also help parents, teachers, and counselors initiate therapeutic dialogues and provide insights that can lead to healing and growth.
This project of worldwide proportions inspired by the new religious movement called the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University incorporates twelve values (unity, peace, happiness, hope, humility, simplicity, trust, freedom, co-operation, honesty, courage, love), [18] and has formed the basis of the whole-school ethos approach in schools such as West Kidlington Primary School, Kidlington ...
The World Health Organization recommends in "Preventing Suicide", [105] published in 2000, that strengthening students' self-esteem is important to protect children and adolescents against mental distress and despondency, enabling them to cope adequately with difficult and stressful life situations.
Happiness By Design. On 28 August 2014, Dolan published his book Happiness by Design, with foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman. [17] The theme of the book is using the tools of behavioural science to help promote individual happiness by reallocating attention. Dolan promoted this book in a talk at the Hay Festival on 30 May 2015. [18]
In the US, the book became the number-one nonfiction book and e-book on The Wall Street Journal ' s Best-Selling Books list. [61] It also topped The Washington Post 's [ 62 ] [ 63 ] and Reuters 's US bestsellers list, [ 64 ] reached number two on USA Today ' s overall list, [ 65 ] and topped the hardcover nonfiction and top 10 overall category ...
One line of evidence for this comes from studies conducted with college students, where students who went on trips (new and unusual experiences), whether they be short excursions or semester-length study abroad programs, reported increased psychological richness, but not increases in happiness or meaning (Oishi et al., 2021). [91]
Glasser believed that "pleasure" and "happiness" are related but far from synonymous. Sex, for example, is a "pleasure" but may well be divorced from a "satisfactory relationship," which is a precondition for lasting "happiness" in life. Hence the intense focus on the improvement of relationships in counseling with choice theory—the "new ...