Cheuk, Chung H
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Publication Tapping Into Your Inner Superhero: Positive Interventions for At-Risk Youth Organizations(2019-05-05) Cheuk, Chung H; Bono, Alexandra; Ritchie, Henry; O'Malley, DevonChildhood poverty has been linked with gaps in physical, emotional, and cognitive outcomes. Previous research sheds light on potential interventions for helping at-risk youth. We combine these findings with proven positive psychology interventions to create a curriculum for an organization serving at-risk youth in Trenton, New Jersey. The workshops are geared towards teaching components that enable lasting well-being using existing positive psychology frameworks, such as Martin Seligman’s PERMA. We also adapt lessons using VIA Character Strengths and resiliency factors for an adolescent population, and leverage behavioral modeling, self-agency, and environmental mastery to create sustainable programming. If successful, these interventions may teach us how positive psychology can enable flourishing in at-risk youth populations.Publication Measuring the weight of love: Have relationships deteriorated over time?(2019-08-09) Cheuk, Chung HWe are healthier, richer, safer, and better educated than ever before. Yet paradoxically, depression is on the rise in the United States. Given the strong emphasis that positive psychology places on the importance of social relationships, I review direct and proxy evidence that relationships are deteriorating in the United States. Additionally, I outline next steps to strengthen this hypothesis. The implications of this work point toward a need to complement the joys of modernity with interventions and policies that support strengthening our weakened relationships.