The Social Emotional Health Surveys were developed in 2010 and have been extensively evaluated via university-school partnerships. We make our best effort to substantiate the credibility, utility, and psychometric properties of these measures through publications in peer-reviewed journals. We are in Year 5 of an Institute of Education Sciences funded project. In September 2017, we began a longitudinal study of students in Grades 9-11, which we will conclude in October 2020). With our WestEd partners, we have also complied a cross-sectional sample of 120,000 secondary (Grades 7-12) students.
Furlong, M. J., Dowdy, E., Nylund-Gibson, K., Wagle, R., Carter, D., & Hinton, T. (2020, in press). Enhancement and standardization of a universal social-emotional health measure for students' psychological strengths. Journal of Well-Being Assessment.
More than 100 studies worldwide report on the psychometric properties, validation evidence, and practical applications of the Social Emotional Health Survey
Recent Presentations






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California Association of School Psychologist
Long Beach, CA, October 24, 2019
Monitoring Students' Complete Mental Wellness: Tier 1 and Tier 2 Best Practices
Institute of Education Sciences PI Meeting
Washington, DC, January 8, 2020
Poster #56 SEHS-Secondary 2020
Western Positive Psychology Association
Clairemont, CA, January 25, 2020
California Student Wellness Study: Assessing Students' Complete Social Emotional Health
California Student Wellness Conference
Virtual Conference, September 8, 2020
California Student Wellness Study: Tracking Students' Flourishing Mental Health
California Association of School Psychologist
Fall Conference, CA, November 4, 2020
Can You Monitor All Students Social Emotional Wellness? (workshop)
6th International Congress of Clinical and Health Psychology in Children and Adolescents
Elche, Spain, November 19, 2020
Universal Monitoring of Adolescents' Mental Wellness
Covitality Research