PA146: Virtual Professional Development in Positive Psychology for Practitioners: What Worked

Friday, February 16, 2024
10:00 AM–10:50 AM CST

  • PMD: 4,9
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Introduction
  • Poster Session 4: Recent Developments in Assessment and Research

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. learn about the importance of promoting well-being and flourishing among students;
  2. gain resources for providing a virtual professional development to develop local experts in positive psychology interventions; and
  3. learn about evaluation tools to evaluate the effectiveness of a virtual professional development on positive psychology interventions.

Description

This paper will present the scope of virtual professional development in positive psychology that participants can lead within their school/district to develop local experts to promote students’ emotional flourishing.

Presenter(s)

Kai Zhuang Shum, University of South Florida
Shannon M. Suldo, PhD, University of South Florida
Sarah A. Fefer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Cydney Williams, University of South Florida

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