Positive Psychology
by Lopez, Shane J.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-08-30
Publisher(s): Praeger Pub Text
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Summary
Positive psychology is a movement that emphasizes what is right with people rather than what is wrong with them. Most of psychology tends to focus on negatives and mental illness. Positive psychology is an attempt to redress the balance and focus on the positive aspects of life (human strengths and virtues which are found in the happiest people).
Table of Contents
| Discovering Human Strengths | |
| Preface | |
| Discovering Your Strengths | |
| Making the Most of Human Strengths | |
| Human Strengths: Differences that Bring Us Together | |
| If Bad is Stronger than Good, Why Focus on Human Strength? | |
| Being Wise at Any Age | |
| Can Courage be Learned? | |
| The Health Benefits of Optimism | |
| Living Lessons: The Psychological Strengths of | |
| An Agentic Perspective on Positive Psychology | |
| Capitalizing on Emotional Experiences | |
| Preface | |
| The Broadening, Building, Buffering Effects of Positive Emotions | |
| Personal Narratives, Positive Emotions, and Long Lives: The Nun Study | |
| Exercising Gratitude | |
| The Gratitude of Youth | |
| For the Good of Others: Toward a Positive Psychology of Sacrifice | |
| Helping behavior and positive emotions: Implications for health and well-being | |
| Emotional Intelligence: Living Intelligently with Emotions | |
| Allophilia: Beyond Tolerance | |
| Re-envisioning Mens Emotional Lives: Stereotypes, Struggles, and Strengths | |
| Growing in the Face of Adversity | |
| Preface | |
| Growth Through Loss and Adversity: A Choice Worth Making | |
| Personal Growth after Relationship Breakups | |
| Romantic Conflict and Its Resolution | |
| Forgiveness is a Matter of Choice: Forgiveness Education for Young Children | |
| The Self-Determination of Adolescents with Intellectual Disability | |
| Overcoming Stereotype Threat | |
| Career Flexibility | |
| Emotional Storytelling after Stressful Experiences | |
| Pursuing Human Flourishing | |
| Preface | |
| Who Flourishes? The Criteria of Complete Mental Health | |
| Toward a Durable Happiness | |
| Will Money Buy Happiness? | |
| Presenting a Positive Alternative to Strivings for Material Success and the Thin-Ideal: Understanding the Effects of Extrinsic Relative to Intrinsic Goal Pursuits | |
| Positive Schooling | |
| Employee Engagement | |
| Families that Work | |
| How Smart Girls Become Talented Women | |
| Practicing Authentic Leadership | |
| Cultivating Civic Engagement | |
| Positive Psychotherapy | |
| Index | |
| About the Editor and Contributors | |
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