Overview

The APS hosts this webinar with the APS Positive Psychology Interest Group.

Psychologists are increasingly interested in strategies that treat mental ill health and that promote positive mental health. The field of positive psychology aims to support this full continuum approach by exploring 'positively deviated' pathways that enable vitality and flourishing.

Systems Informed Positive Psychology (SIPP) suggests that well-being occurs at the individual, group, and systems levels. Understanding how a system functions, reacts to, and interacts, to build and maintain well-being can help psychologists to promote more widespread and sustained well-being at multiple levels.

This webinar aims to:

• provide psychologists with the latest scientific findings relating to Systems Informed Positive Psychology (SIPP),

• provide approaches that can be adopted to foster Collective Well-being, and

• demonstrate a framework for how system-level well-being can be conceptualised within a specific context of a school classroom.

Level of Learning

Foundational. This activity is targeted to those new to the topic.

Duration of access

Participants will have access to the recording and presenter slides for 12 months from the date of confirmed registration. Please note that access cannot be extended, and participants should plan to complete the activity within this period.

APS CPD Approved 

This activity has been assessed against the APS Standards for CPD activities and approved for its education quality. Learn more about the APS CPD Approval process.

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Activity details

• On-demand webinar recording

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• have a greater understanding regarding the field of systems informed positive psychology,

• describe an example of a flourishing system and distinguish system elements, and

• adopt systems thinking concepts and apply to their professional practice context.

Presenter(s)

Dr Laura Allison

About the presenter(s)

Dr Laura Allison is a registered psychologist employed as the Chief Psychologist for Catholic Education in Western Australia.
Laura has worked in education across the Government, Catholic and Independent sectors and has been the Director of Wellbeing in two schools. Laura sits on numerous State and National steering and advisory committees for mental health, wellbeing and suicide prevention.
She has expertise relating to school psychology, mental illness prevention and wellbeing promotion and was the recipient of the 2015 WA School Psychologist of the Year Award.
She completed her PhD with the University of Melbourne, researching a system informed positive psychology, context-focused approach to student wellbeing to develop the Flourishing Classroom System Observation Framework.
Laura’s research has been published in scientific journals and is being implemented across almost 160 Catholic schools in Western Australia.

Facilitating this webinar will be Order of Australia recipient Professor Lea Waters AM, PhD.She is an Australian academic, psychologist, author and speaker who holds a PhD in Organisational Psychology and is a world expert in School Psychology and Parenting.
Professor Waters is the Founding Director of the Centre for Positive Psychology (now the Centre for Wellbeing Science), University of Melbourne, where she has held an academic position for over 20 years. Lea holds an affiliate position with the Centre for Positive Organizations, University of Michigan and is on the Science Board of the Greater Good Science Centre at the UC Berkeley.