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Positive Psychology

Theory & Psychology, 2008
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 that are found in the happiest people ...
Becker, D., Marecek, Jeanne
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Positive Psychology

open access: yes, 2013
Clinical Psychology has traditionally focused on psychological deficits and disability. It has rarely privileged clients’ resilience and resourcefulness.
Sarah A. Schnitker, Robert A. Emmons
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Positive Psychology at the Summit

Review of General Psychology, 2005
Psychology has traditionally placed more emphasis on the negative than positive aspects of human behavior. The positive psychology movement, since its beginnings in 1999, has made major advances toward correcting this imbalance. Research inspired by the movement now spans an impressive range of topics, including many that are absolutely essential to a
Simonton, Dean Keith, Baumeister, Roy F.
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Positive psychology

Clinical Psychology Forum, 1992
Clinical Psychology has traditionally focused on psychological deficits and disability. It has rarely privileged clients’ resilience and resourcefulness. The critical psychology tradition in the UK has highlighted the shortcomings of this approach (Johnstone, 2000; Newnes, Holmes, & Dunn, 1999, 2001).
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Positive Psychology Coaching

2021
This book provides evidence for coaching from psychology perspectives, aiming to inform academics, researchers and students of the efficacy of positive psychology coaching practice for both individuals and organizations. It integrates three areas of research, providing a multifaceted analysis of coaching from traditional psychology, positive psychology,
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Positive Psychology Applications

2009
Applied positive psychology is concerned with facilitating good lives and enabling people to be at their best. It is as much an approach as a particular domain of inquiry. As shown throughout this chapter, positive psychology has applications that span almost every area of applied psychology and beyond.
Wood, A. M.   +4 more
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Is positive psychology an indigenous psychology?

2017
This chapter argues that positive psychology, like much of the psychological knowledge produced in the United States, is imbued with the folk psychology of middle-class Americans. All psychologies – including positive psychology – could be said to be indigenous psychologies.
Marecek, Jeanne, Christopher, J. C.
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