Shane J. Lopez Ph.D. is research director for the Clifton Strengths School and Senior Scientist in Residence at Gallup. He is an architect of the Gallup Student Poll, a measure of hope, engagement, and well-being in American students. Dr. Lopez is also the director of the annual Wellbeing Forum which convenes scholars, leaders, and decision makers to discuss global wellbeing. He leads research on the links between hope, strengths development, academic success, and overall well-being and collaborates with scholars on these issues. He specializes in hope and strengths enhancement for students from preschool through college graduation, advocating a whole school strengths model that also builds the strengths expertise of educators, parents, and youth development organizations. Dr Lopez has provided strengths mentoring to thousands of college students. Formerly, Dr. Lopez was associate professor of counseling psychology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence where he taught courses in positive psychology, psychological assessment, and educational leadership. He serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Positive Psychology and on the advisory board for Ready, Set, Learn, the Discovery Channel’s pre-school educational television programming. Through his current research programs, Lopez is examining the effectiveness of hope training programs in the schools (under the auspices of the Making Hope Happen Program), refining a model of psychological courage, and exploring the link between soft life skills and hard outcomes in education, work, healthy, and family functioning. Dr. Lopez has published over 100 articles and chapters and seven books including Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology (Wiley) and The Handbook of Positive Psychology (Oxford) and Positive Psychological Assessment: A Handbook of Models and Measures (American Psychological Association Press), both with C. R. Snyder.
Dr. Lopez is a licensed psychologist and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.
C. R. Snyder (deceased) was the Wright Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. Internationally known for his work at the interface of clinical, social, personality, and health psychology, his theories have pertained to how people react to personal feedback, the human need for uniqueness, the ubiquitous drive to excuse transgressions and, most recently, the hope motive. He received 31 research awards and 27 teaching awards at the university, state, and national levels. In 2005, he received an honorary doctorate from Indiana Wesleyan University. Snyder has appeared many times on national American television shows, and he has been a regular contributor to National Public Radio. His scholarly work on the human need for uniqueness received the rare recognition of being the subject matter of an entire Sunday cartoon sequence by Gary Trudeau. All of these accomplishments were packaged in a graying and self-effacing absent-minded professor who says of himself, “If you don’t laugh at yourself, you have missed the biggest joke of all!”
저자 : Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti
Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Child Development at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where she teaches courses in positive psychology, multicultural psychology, clinical and counseling psychology, and research methods. Dr. Teramoto Pedrotti’s current research includes projects on topics including ethnocultural empathy, hope in diverse populations, and well-being in multiracial individuals. She has contributed to several works discussing the intersections of positive psychology and multicultural issues and has been teaching positive psychology with a multicultural focus for 7 years. Dr. Teramoto Pedrotti and her husband, Brian, live with their two children, Ben and Cate, on the Central Coast in California.