Module 1 – Understanding Wellbeing and Resilience

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Kappes, H. B., & Oettingen, G. (2011). Positive fantasies about idealized futures sap energy. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47(4), 719–729. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2011.02.003

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Leckie, R. L., Oberlin, L. E., Voss, M. W., Prakash, R. S., Szabo-Reed, A., Chaddock-Heyman, L., … Erickson, K. I. (2014). BDNF mediates improvements in executive function following a 1-year exercise intervention. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8(December), 1–12. http://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00985

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MacAuley, D., Bauman, A., & Frémont, P. (2015). Exercise: not a miracle cure, just good medicine. BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.), 350(4), h1416. http://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h1416

Martiny-Huenger, T., Bieleke, M., Oettingen, G., & Gollwitzer, P. M. (2016). From thought to automatic action: Strategic and spontaneous action control by if-then planning. In Reflective and impulsive determinants of behavior (pp. 69–84).

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McQuaid, M. (2017). Podcast with Professor George Bonanno. Retrieved from http://www.michellemcquaid.com/podcast/mppw39-george-bonanno/

Oettingen, G., Marquardt, M. K., & Gollwitzer, P. M. (2012). Mental contrasting turns positive feedback on creative potential into successful performance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(5), 990–996. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2012.03.008

Oettingen, G., & Mayer, D. (2002). The motivating function of thinking about the future: Expectations versus fantasies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83(5), 1198–1212.

Rath, T., & Harter, J. (2010). Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements. Gallup Press.

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Walsh, R., & Vaughan, F. (1983). Towards an integrative psychology of well-being. In R. Walsh & D. Shapiro (Eds.), Beyond health and normality. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.

World Health Organization. (2006). Constitution of The World Health Organization. Basic Document Forthy-Fifth Edition, (January 1984), 1–18. http://doi.org/12571729

Wu, G., Feder, A., Cohen, H., Kim, J. J., Calderon, S., Charney, D. S., & Mathé, A. A. (2013). Understanding resilience. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 7(February), 1–15. http://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00010

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