Positive Identity
Personal power
- Create a learning environment in which students feel they have
control over what happens to them (e.g., provide students with
choices).
Self-efficacy
- Support students in developing confidence and believing in
their abilities to achieve goals.
Sense of purpose
- Help students to see how their lives have purpose.
Positive view of personal future
- Model and encourage students to practice being optimistic
about their personal futures and willingness to learn from
failures and obstacles.
Self-compassion
- Model and have students practice placing value on themselves
as their own best friends.