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Chapter 20 - Positive Education

Visible Wellbeing and Positive Functioning in Students

from Section 3 - Beyond Services: What Would a Recovery-Supporting and Wellbeing-Targeted Society Look Like?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2017

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Lea Waters ,
Jessie Sun ,
Reuben Rusk ,
Alice Cotton  and
Alice Arch
Edited by
Mike Slade ,
Lindsay Oades  and
Aaron Jarden
Mike Slade
Affiliation:
King's College London
Lindsay Oades
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
Aaron Jarden
Affiliation:
Auckland University of Technology
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Wellbeing, Recovery and Mental Health , pp. 245 - 264
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