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Jane E. Gillham

Researcher at Swarthmore College

Publications -  71
Citations -  7202

Jane E. Gillham is an academic researcher from Swarthmore College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anxiety & Psychological intervention. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 71 publications receiving 6678 citations. Previous affiliations of Jane E. Gillham include Yale University & University of Pennsylvania.

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Positive Education: Positive Psychology and Classroom Interventions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the story of teaching resilience, positive emotion, engagement and meaning to an entire school in Australia, and they speculate that positive education will form the basis of a new prosperity, a politics that values both wealth and well-being.
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Prevention of depressive symptoms in school children

TL;DR: The development and preliminary efficacy of a program designed to prevent depressive symptoms in at-risk 10-13 year-olds, and the findings to the current understanding of childhood depression are described.
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Prevention of Depressive Symptoms in Schoolchildren: Two-Year Follow-Up

TL;DR: After teaching cognitive and social-problem-solving techniques designed to prevent depressive symptoms, this article followed 69 fifth and sixth-grade children at risk for depression for 2 years and compared these children with 49 children in a matched no-treatment control group.
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A Meta-Analytic Review of the Penn Resiliency Program’s Effect on Depressive Symptoms

TL;DR: Evidence that PRP significantly reduces depressive symptoms through at least 1-year postintervention is found, and preliminary analyses suggested thatPRP's effects on depressive disorders may be smaller than those reported in a larger meta-analysis of depression prevention programs for older adolescents and adults.