Let’s get real with well-being interventions in schools.

Tracks
Grand Ballroom 3
Thursday, March 21, 2019
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Grand Ballroom 3

Overview

Halfday workshop #4 Diane Vella-Broderick


Presenter

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Dianne Vella-Brodrick

Let’s get real with well-being interventions in schools.

2:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Abstract

This workshop will provide an overview of wellbeing programs in schools and factors relating to the design, delivery and monitoring that optimize their success. The importance of making well-being tangible, engaging and practical will be underscored and illustrated through some of the latest methods and interventions using technology and biofeedback. In this workshop you will have the opportunity to try a number of wellbeing interventions and to explore their relevance in educational settings.

Biography

Dianne is Deputy Director and Head of Research at the Centre for Positive Psychology at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. She is the inaugural Director of the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program (2013 – 2015) and is a registered psychologist and a Member of the Australian Psychological Society and College of Health Psychologists. She founded the Positive Psychology Network in Australia and has served as Treasurer and Secretary of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) and is currently on the IPPA Council of Advisors. Dianne has been an inaugural Editor in Chief of the Psychology of Well-Being: Theory, Research and Practice journal (2011-2016) and has Co-Directed the 2008, 2010 and 2014 Australian positive psychology and well-being conferences. She serves on numerous research advisory boards, regularly reviews scientific papers for leading journals and has received around $2.85 million funding for her research. Dianne’s research interests include the development and evaluation of well-being programs, particularly in the areas of positive education and performance optimisation. She specialises in innovative mixed method designs which utilise the latest technology, experience sampling method and biological indices of well-being. Her research has a special focus on young people. She also integrates ethical and professional practice issues in much of her work and is currently the Ethics Chair at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Dianne also has extensive experience with scale development and psychometric testing having been involved in the development of numerous well-being scales including the Wuzzup app and Wellbeing Profiler.

Session Chairs

Gerald Wurf


Student Volunteers

Sarah Pearson
University of Melbourne

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Marissa Yi-Hsuan Wu
University of Melbourne

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