School, apart from being a place of education and transmission of new knowledge, should also be a place of personal development and enhancement of students' well-being and mental resilience, while protecting mental health and preventing teacher burnout. The current covid-19 pandemic has made the need for psychological support for students and teachers more urgent than ever.

The science of positive psychology has offered many tools and methods that are particularly effective in the school environment and in educational contexts in general.

New tools, methods, and practices are needed to enhance the well-being and psychological resilience of students, teachers, and parents in a time of challenges such as the current pandemic and inflation that cause stress, uncertainty, and an increase in psychopathology.

In the school environment, additional, specific challenges have emerged, such as tele-education and the lack of physical contact between students and teachers. In response to the need to prevent and enhance well-being in the school environment, our aim is to gather research and proposals from the international scientific community on:

-New tools, practices, methods, and interventions that contribute to enhancing well-being in the school environment.
-Examining variables that contribute to school well-being and resilience of students, teachers, and parents.

The science of Positive Psychology has been flourishing in recent years and Positive Education holds great promise. It is hoped that achieving the pooling of this knowledge and new tools and methods will benefit educational institutions worldwide through sharing and synthesizing this knowledge.

The main objective of this Research Topic is to bring together the most recent work on the topic of positive education and the enhancement of well-being and resilience in the school environment.

Without being restrictive, manuscripts regarding the following topics are welcome:

-prevention of teacher burnout
-positive psychology & stress management in school settings
-team interventions to enhance psychological resilience among students
-using character strengths at school
-positive communication in the school environment
-compassion/self-compassion and positive education
-using positive psychology tools and methods to enhance parents’ resilience and well being
-positive organizational culture in educational institutions

The following types of contributions will be considered: empirical, qualitative, quantitative, or mixed studies, systematic reviews, bibliometric studies, meta-analyses, protocols, and case studies.

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