Positive Psychology: Gratitude and Its Role Within Mental Health Nursing

A white paper reviewing two decades of gratitude research: what gratitude is, where it comes from, what it does for health and relationships, and how it can be cultivated. The most complete treatment of the topic here.

Summer Allen

Eight ready-to-run gratitude practices, from the gratitude letter and journal to savoring walks and team huddles, each with instructions, timing, and the research behind it. Built for health care teams but usable anywhere.

American Nurses Foundation and Greater Good Science Center

A short practitioner guide to the kindness intervention: how to set it up, how often it should be repeated, and what the evidence says about its effect on the person doing the kind act.

Jonathan Passmore and Lindsay G. Oades