Michael J. Furlong

Universal Monitoring of Adolescents’ Flourishing Mental Wellness

The importance of monitoring adolescents’ mental wellness is now as apparent as ever. I will describe a field-tested approach for assessing and monitoring students’ social-emotional wellness based on a study of more than 100,000 students. Content includes the Social Emotional Health Surveys and Social Emotional Distress Scale, developed/validated with/for California’s diverse students, and cross-validated in China, Korea, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, United Kingdom, Netherlands, and other countries. I will provide information about how schools integrate screening/monitoring within a comprehensive mental wellness program (see: www.covitalityucsb.info and Proyecto CoVitalidad).

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Michael J. Furlong, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of School Psychology and Research Professor at the International Center for School Based Youth Development, University of California Santa Barbara. Dr Furlong is a coeditor of the Handbook of Positive Psychology in Schools (2009, 2014, 2021), and an associate editor of Educational and Developmental Psychologist and the Journal of Positive School Psychology. He directs Project Covitality (www.covitalityucsb.info), which supports schools’ efforts to foster all students’ flourishing social-emotional development.