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1. Introducing Positive Psychology

2. Introducing Positive Psychology History of Positive Psychology O riginally coined by the psychologist Abraham Maslow in the 1950’s. 

3. Introducing Positive Psychology History of Positive Psychology What were the limits of human energy? How could this energy be stimulated and released so it could be put to optimal use?”

4. Introducing Positive Psychology History of Positive Psychology Martin E. P. Seligman, in his 1998 APA Presidential introduced positive psychology to the American Psychological Association. “The most important thing, the most general thing I learned, was that psychology was half-baked, literally half-baked. We had baked the part about mental illness […] The other side’s unbaked, the side of strength, the side of what we’re good at.” (Address, Lincoln Summit, Sep. 1999.)

5. Introducing Positive Psychology Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi “Psychology has, since World War II, become a science largely about healing. It concentrates on repairing damage within a disease model of human func­tioning.” ”

6. Introducing Positive Psychology A focus on weakness “What is wrong with people?” ?

7. Introducing Positive Psychology A focus on weakness “Which factors impair human functioning?” ?

8. Introducing Positive Psychology A focus on weakness Psychological Abstracts (1967-2000): anger: 5,584 anxiety: 41,416 depression: 54,040 joy: 415 happiness: 1,710 life satisfaction: 2,582 Ratio: 21/1

9. Introducing Positive Psychology A focus on weakness -5 +5

10. Introducing Positive Psychology A focus on strengths Martin Seligman “Positive Psychology is the scientific study of optimal human functioning that aims to discover and promote the factors that allow individuals and communities to thrive.”

11. Seligman - Individuals can modify their thinking and actions and learn how to be optimistic and positive. LEARNED HELPLESSNESS LEARNED OPTIMISM 12

12. VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE Humans are capable of many things , including both good and bad feelings and actions, and our actual behaviors are likely a function of a multitude of factors, including situational factors, the system in which we live, our culture, our genes, how we grew up, and perhaps a little bit of mystery. 13

13. GOALS of positive psychology include building a science that supports: families and schools that allow children to flourish workplaces that foster satisfaction and high productivity communities that encourage civic engagement therapists who identify and nurture their patients’ strengths the teaching of positive psychology dissemination of positive psychology interventions in organizations and communities 14

14. Positive psychology researchers have focused on how people can make shift from negative thoughts and behaviors to positive emotions and actions. Barbara Frederickson – positive emotions increase happiness and psychological growth , result in longer life, increase intuition, and creativity, increase resilience to adversity, and decrease health problems. Her research suggests that, there should be a 3:1 ratio of positive to negative feelings . 15

15. Introducing Positive Psychology A focus on strengths “What is right about people?” ?

16. Introducing Positive Psychology A focus on strengths “Which factors promote human flourishing?” ?

17. Introducing Positive Psychology A focus on strengths -5 +5 P ositive psychology is a supplement to what psychology traditionally does. We should be just as concerned with making the lives of people fulling as we are with healing pathology.

18. Introducing Positive Psychology A focus on strengths P ositive subjective experience: well-being and satisfaction (past); flow, joy, the sensual pleasures, and happiness (present); and constructive cognitions about the future—optimism, hope, and faith. ?

19. Introducing Positive Psychology A focus on strengths P ositive personal traits : the capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill, aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, future mindedness, high talent, and wisdom. ?

20. Introducing Positive Psychology A focus on strengths P ositive civic virtues: responsibility, nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation, tolerance, and work ethic ?

21. Human strengths = Positive human traits courage, future-mindedness, optimism, interpersonal skill, faith, work ethic, hope, honesty, perseverance, the capacity for flow and insight, to name several. The skill of “disputing” = “learned optimism.” Positive Prevention

22. Making the lives of our clients physically healthier, given all we are learning about the effects of mental well-being on the body; R eorienting psychology to its two neglected missions, making normal people stronger and more productive, as well as making high human potential actual. Positive Prevention

23. Get Ready, Get Set, Go! The three appreciations: Name 3 things I am SATISFIED with Name 3 things I am ENTHUSIASTIC about Name 3 things I am THANKFUL for (As a variation, you may find it useful to name just one item for each of S E T) You will be surprised that when you apply this to something you are dreading, your mindset becomes more creative, productive and engaged. 

24. Introducing Positive Psychology Critical notes ignoring weakness will not promote well-being PP is an addition to the field, not a replacement “negative” psychology does not exist psychology reaches far beyond the subdomains of psychopathology and clinical psychology many studies on well-being before 2000