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This course covers the theories and research contributing to the emerging field of positive psychology. The course provides an overview of the positive views of human functioning along with a review of this sub-discipline's contributions to traditional research and practice in psychology. Topics include human strengths, happiness, gratitude, flow, optimism and hope, wisdom and courage, positive affect, resilience, coping, friendship and love, positive psychology in organizations, clinical psychology and psychotherapy, positive education, and positive development across the lifespan.
This book examines how positive psychology applies to stressors and health within such traditional research areas as developmental, clinical, personality, motivational, social, and behavioral psychology. Furthermore, the book offers perspectives on positive emotional states, research and theory on positive traits, coverage of positive institutions, and a look at the future of positive psychology. This third edition, reflects significant growth in field with hundreds of new references and expanded content on topics including mindfulness, money and subjective well-being, and romantic love. It also features new research on emotional intelligence, positive character strengths, emotional regulation, LGBT issues, gratitude, compassion, organizational issues, and positive psychology through the lifespan.
Written from a scientific perspective and thoroughly grounded in research, this book covers major topics of concern to the field of positive psychology- positive experiences such as pleasure and flow; positive traits such as character strengths, values, and talents; and the social institutions that enable these such as friendship, love, education, and religion. every chapter contains exercises that illustrate positive psychology and offers articles and books for further reading as well as a listing of films, websites, and popular songs that embody chapter themes or might provide the basis of research papers.
This book belongs to the field of positive psychology, an approach to human behavior that focuses on strengths as well as weaknesses and on promoting human potential and fulfillment. It describes the classification of strengths and virtues and ways of measuring them devised by Martin Seligman, the scientific director of the Values in Action Institute created by the Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson Foundation, and Christopher Peterson, the project director of the classification project, with the assistance of a number of scholars and practitioners. 24 Character Strengths divided among 6 virtues are presented. One chapter is devoted to each of the 24 virtues.
