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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143578603321

Titolo

Positive psychology in practice / / edited by P. Alex Linley and Stephen Joseph

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

1-118-42890-0

1-283-91675-4

0-470-93933-8

0-471-67163-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (795 p.)

Disciplina

150

150/22

158

Soggetti

Positive psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Positive Psychology in Practice; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Part I: THE APPLIED POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY PERSPECTIVE; Part II: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS; Part III: VALUES AND CHOICES IN PURSUIT OF THE GOOD LIFE; Part IV: LIFESTYLE PRACTICES FOR HEALTH AND WELL-BEING; Part V: TEACHING AND LEARNING: METHODS AND PROCESSES; Part VI: POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AT WORK; Part VII: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND PSYCHOTHERAPY: A POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE; Part VIII: POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN THE CONSULTING ROOM

Part IX: STRENGTHS OF CHARACTER IN PRACTICEPart X: POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN; Part XI: BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH INTEGRATION AND REGENERATION; Part XII: PUBLIC POLICY INITIATIVES: GOOD GOVERNANCE AND THE GOOD LIFE; Part XIII: SIGNPOSTS FOR THE PRACTICE OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; Author Index; Subject Index



Sommario/riassunto

A thorough and up-to-date guide to putting positive psychology into practice From the Foreword: ""This volume is the cutting edge of positive psychology and the emblem of its future.""-Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D., Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, and author of Authentic Happiness Positive psychology is an exciting new orientation in the field, going beyond psychology's traditional focus on illness and pathology to look at areas like well-being and fulfillment. While the larger question of optimal human functioning is hardly new - Aristotle add