Differential effects of well-being promoting and anxiety-management strategies in a non-clinical school setting

Well-Being and Generalized Anxiety in Japanese Undergraduates: A Prospective Cohort Study

“…Also, WBT has been applied on school setting with primary preventive purpose (Ruini et al 2009). Tomba et al (2010) revealed that WBT was effective to reducing psychological distress and increasing PWB in adolescent sample in their controlled study.…”

Well-Being Therapy: Current Indications and Emerging Perspectives

“…Three randomized controlled trials in educational settings indicated that protocols based on WBT may be suitable for promoting mechanisms of resilience and psychological well-being [35,36,37] In the first pilot study, school interventions (4 class sessions lasting a couple of hours) were performed in a population of 111 middle-school students randomly assigned to either a protocol using theories and techniques derived from CBT or a protocol derived from WBT. Both school-based interventions resulted in a comparable improvement in symptoms and psychological well-being [35].…”

“…This pilot investigation suggested that well-being-enhancing strategies could match CBT in the prevention of psychological distress and in promoting optimal human functioning among children. The differential effects of WBT and CBT approaches have been subsequently explored in another controlled school intervention, involving more sessions and an adequate follow-up [36]. In this trial, 162 students attending middle schools were randomly assigned to either a protocol derived from WBT or an anxiety management protocol.…”

Direction: Happiness

“…Bolier et al, 2014;Borness et al, 2013;Goldstein, 2007;Korte et al, 2012;Lamers et al, 2014;Page & Vella-Brodrick, 2013;C. Ruini et al, 2009;Stein et al, 2013;Tomba et al, 2010;Trompetter et al, 2014) examined follow-up effects after at least 2 months up to 10 months. Nine of these 12 studies examined the follow-up at 6 months.…”

“…Sample size varied between 20 and 376 participants. (Hickson, Worrall, & Scarinci, 2007) and chronic pain (Trompetter, Bohlmeijer, Veehof, & Schreurs, 2014) (Addley et al, 2014;Bolier, Haverman, Kramer, et al, 2013;Bolier et al, 2014;Borness et al, 2013;Fava, Rafanelli, Cazzaro, Conti, & Grandi, 1998a;Fava et al, 2005;Fledderus, Bohlmeijer, Pieterse & Schreurs, 2012;Hickson et al, 2007;Korte et al, 2012;Pots, Meulenbeek, Veehof, Klungers, & Bohlmeijer, 2014;Ruini et al, 2006;Ruini et al, 2009;Stein, Corte, Chen, Nuliyalu, & Wing, 2013;Tomba et al, 2010), the other 11 studies did not mention whether there was a conflict of interest.…”