Teaching Teens To Be Grateful: Why It Matters

Inside The Mind of Teens and Tweens

English - August 20, 2014 21:52 - 12 minutes - 20 Bytes - ★★★★ - 46 ratings
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A spirit of gratitude can go a long way as a teen develops. In this segment we take a look at how gratitude can be taught to teens and why it's so important.

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Giacomo Bono, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and studies positive youth development. He is co-investigator of the Youth Gratitude Project, which is a research grant funded by the John Templeton Foundation, and co-author, along with Jeffrey Froh, of Making Grateful Kids: The Science of Building Character. Dr. Jann Gumbiner is a licensed psychologist specializing in child and adolescent psychology. Jann has authored numerous scientific articles, a book titled Adolescent Assessment, and currently writes a blog for Psychology Today titled "The Teenage Mind."