🙌 Thriving in College Through Strengths: Emotional Wellness

College is more than GPAs and credit hours—it's an emotional journey, too. Helping your student develop emotional wellness is one of the best investments you can make in their long-term happiness.

And one of the smartest ways to begin? Tap into their strengths.

🎁 Discover the Advantage of a Strengths-Based Approach

With a Paid College Parents of America Membership, your student receives a personalized CliftonStrengths report that reveals their top five strengths and how to turn them into tools for emotional resilience, academic success, and meaningful relationships.

Backed by decades of research, CliftonStrengths empowers students to thrive—on campus and beyond—by helping them understand what makes them uniquely powerful.

❤️ Emotional Wellness: Understanding PERMA

According to Dr. Martin Seligman’s work in positive psychology, emotional well-being has five elements—called PERMA:

• Positive Emotion

• Engagement

• Relationships

• Meaning

• Accomplishment

Each dimension is tied to how a student thinks, feels, and interacts with themselves and others.

When students understand their own strengths—like Empathy, Achiever, or Positivity—they can build strategies to experience more of these five pillars in daily life.

🧠 Emotional Self-Awareness Made Practical

Encourage your student to:

• Understand and respect their feelings, values, and attitudes

• Empathize with and appreciate the emotions of others

• Develop skills to manage challenges constructively

• See the bigger picture behind their college experience

With their CliftonStrengths report, they’ll learn:

• Why certain stressors affect them more than others

• How to create moments of motivation, meaning, and joy

• Where to find natural connection and how to nurture it

✔️ Action Plan:

• Ask your student to choose one element from PERMA to focus on this week.

• Use their CliftonStrengths insights to make that element actionable and sustainable.

For example, if they want to boost Engagement and have Learner as a top strength, they might enroll in a short course or workshop that excites their curiosity.

🎓 The Strengths Advantage: College and Beyond

Understanding strengths is a powerful gift. With access to personalized CliftonStrengths reports, member-only resources, and targeted college guidance, a College Parents of America Membership equips your student for every challenge and opportunity that lies ahead.

From better grades to stronger friendships and a clearer career path, CliftonStrengths helps your student unlock their full potential—and empowers them to thrive in college and well beyond graduation.