Existential Suffering in Palliative Care: An Existential Positive Psychology Perspective [PDF]
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inadequacies of the current healthcare system and needs a paradigm change to one that is holistic and community based, illustrated by the healing wheel. The present paper proposes that existential positive psychology
Paul T. P. Wong, Timothy T. F. Yu
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Finding Meaning Amidst COVID-19: An Existential Positive Psychology Model of Suffering [PDF]
The global COVID-19 pandemic has created a crisis of suffering. We conceptualize suffering as a deeply existential issue that fundamentally changes people indelible ways and for which there are no easy solutions.
Daryl R. Van Tongeren +1 more
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Editorial: COVID-19 and Existential Positive Psychology (PP2.0): The New Science of Self-Transcendence [PDF]
Paul T. P. Wong +3 more
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Suffering and Salutogenesis: A Conceptual Analysis of Lessons for Psychiatry From Existential Positive Psychology (PP2.0) in the Setting of the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a widespread effect on the thoughts, emotions and behavior of millions of people all around the world. In this context, a large body of scientific literature examining the mental health impact of this global crisis has ...
Ravi Philip Rajkumar
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Existential Positive Psychology (EPP): A Positive Tool for Healing Existential Anxieties in South Africa during, and after, the COVID-19 Pandemic. [PDF]
Globally, humanity is in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic; thus, we question our individual, and collective, behaviours. Long periods of lockdown and ever-escalating death rates have found people asking questions such as “What is the point of carrying on?” This is exacerbated by the world’s burgeoning ecological crisis. Humanity is beginning to wonder
Nel KA, Govender S.
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The Joyful Life: An Existential-Humanistic Approach to Positive Psychology in the Time of a Pandemic [PDF]
In the midst of a global pandemic, psychology has a duty to identify dispositional or character traits that can be cultivated in citizens in order to create resiliency in the face of profound losses, suffering and distress.
Brent Dean Robbins
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Measuring Personal and Social Responsibility: An Existential Positive Psychology Approach
Responsibility was regarded as essential for wellbeing, and measuring this construct is warranted to develop strategies that promote people’s mental health and well-being.
Gökmen Arslan, Paul T P Wong
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The iNEAR programme: an existential positive psychology intervention for resilience and emotional wellbeing [PDF]
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a new psychological intervention, the iNEAR, which is a resilience and wellbeing programme consisting of a classroom based set of activities designed to facilitate the formation of positive identities through the acquisition of skills for growth and personal flourishing. Three hundred and fifty-
Rachel Tribe +2 more
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Existential positive psychology and integrative meaning therapy [PDF]
The unprecedented changes in our society because of COVID-19 and the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) shows that our healthcare system and the medical approach to psychotherapy can no longer meet the mental health needs of society. This paper first described the negative impact of COVID-19 and 4IR on our mental health.
Paul T P Wong
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An Inclusive Existential Positive Psychology: A Commentary
This is a commentary to dr. Paul T.P. Wong's article Existential Positive Psychology (PP 2.0) and global wellbeing: Why it is Necessary During the Age of COVID-19, published in the International Journal of Existential Positive Psychology. Publication can be found at https://www.meaning.ca/ijepp-article/vol10-no1/an-inclusive-existential-positive ...
Lilian Jans-Beken
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