Position Paper: Developing Skills for Social and Emotional Wellbeing

Wellbeing can be defined as multidimensional and incredibly complex, affected by many different factors according to an individual’s experience. Understanding the social and emotional wellbeing of adolescents is important to help support their development and transition to adulthood smoothly. Project based learning has the potential to increase social and emotional wellbeing in students and have a positive impact on the wider community, particularly with regards to health education and sharing of knowledge. Positive computing can play an important role in scaffolding the prevention, promotion and maintenance of psychological wellbeing. Further work is needed to explore the perceptions of wellbeing with adolescents before designing and developing effective digital platforms in this area.