Lea Waters

Evaluation of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander strengths based coaching program: a study protocol

Alison Brown, Fiona Mensah, Graham Gee, Yin Paradies, Samantha French, Lea Waters, Kerry Arabena, Gregory Armstrong, Jan Nicholson, Stephanie J Brown, Kelsey Hegarty, Rebecca Ritte, Kristy Meiselbach, Margaret Kelaher

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

BACKGROUND: Increasingly, strength-based approaches to health and wellbeing interventions with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island..

Collective wellbeing and posttraumatic growth during COVID-19: how positive psychology can help families, schools, workplaces and marginalized communities

Lea Waters, Kim Cameron, S Katherine Nelson-Coffey, Damien L Crone, Margaret L Kern, Tim Lomas, Lindsay Oades, Rhea L Owens, James O Pawelski, Tayyab Rashid, Meg A Warren, Mathew A White, Paige Williams

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Stress-Related Growth in Adolescents Returning to School After COVID-19 School Closure

Lea Waters, Kelly-Ann Allen, Gokmen Arslan

Journal article  |  2021  |  FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY

The move to remote learning during COVID-19 has impacted billions of students. While research shows that school closure, and the p..

Trauma-Informed Teacher Wellbeing: Teacher Reflections within Trauma-Informed Positive Education

Tom Brunzell, Lea Waters, Helen Stokes

Journal article  |  2021  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF TEACHER EDUCATION

For the last 15 years, teacher wellbeing has been a priority area of exploration within education and positive psychology literatu..

School belonging policy

KA Allen, DLL Gray, G Arslan, K Riley, D Vella-Brodrick, L Waters

Book Chapter  |  2021

Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health

Lea Waters, Sara B Algoe, Jane Dutton, Robert Emmons, Barbara L Fredrickson, Emily Heaphy, Judith T Moskowitz, Kristin Neff, Ryan Niemiec, Cynthia Pury, Michael Steger

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

As the COVID-19 global health disaster continues to unfold across the world, calls have been made to address the associated mental..

Third wave positive psychology: broadening towards complexity

Tim Lomas, Lea Waters, Paige Williams, Lindsay G Oades, Margaret L Kern

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

The development of academic fields is often described through the metaphor of ‘waves.’ Following the instantiation of positive psy..

Using positive psychology interventions to strengthen family happiness: A family systems approach

Lea Waters

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

A randomized wait-list control study examined the effects of two positive psychology interventions (PPIs) on 300 families across s..

What does positive psychology tell us about early intervention and prevention with children and adolescents? A review of positive psychological interventions with young people

Rhea L Owens, Lea Waters

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

This paper reviews school-based (n = 212) and clinically-based (n = 68) positive psychological interventions (PPIs) for children a..

Coming Out as LGBTQ plus : The Role Strength-Based Parenting on Posttraumatic Stress and Posttraumatic Growth

Claudia Zavala, Lea Waters

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF HAPPINESS STUDIES

For LGBTQ + individuals, coming out can be an experience of marked adversity. Indeed, research has shown that the experience can t..