Counseling psychology and optimal human functioning / / edited by Bruce Walsh

• Pubblicazione: Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (334 p.)
• Disciplina: 158/.3
• Soggetto topico: Counseling psychology
• Altri autori: WalshW. Bruce <1936->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Counseling Psychology and Optimal Human Functioning: An Introduction; 1 The Healthy Personality; 2 Fostering Exceptional Development in Intellectually Talented Populations; 3 Individuality and Optimal Human Functioning: Interests, Self-Efficacy, and Personality; 4 Person-Environment Psychology and Well-Being; 5 Optimal Human Functioning From Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Cultural Competence as an Organizing Framework; 6 Optimal Human Functioning in People of Color in the United States; 7 Toward a Positive Psychotherapy: Focus on Human Strength ; 8 Strength-Based Health Psychology: Counseling for Total Human Health9 Toward a Taxonomy of Human Strengths: Career Counseling's Contribution to Positive Psychology; 10 Assessing Optimal Human Functioning; 11 Fostering Human Strength Through Diversity and Public Policy: A Counseling Psychologist's Perspective; 12 Fulfilling Its Promise: Counseling Psychology's Efforts to Understand and Promote Optimal Human Functioning; Author Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Counseling psychologists have always been vitally involved in promoting good health and preventing mental, physical, and social disorders. This volume focuses on how their efforts can foster and build optimal human strength and well-being. The chapters show how counseling psychology plays a major role in helping people make changes at home, at work, and in the community in ways that prevent disease risk and strengthen personal and social resources. Written by leading psychologists, the volume shifts away from pathology and illness and moves more toward the science of positive psychol
• Titolo autorizzato: Counseling psychology and optimal human functioning
• ISBN: 1-282-32239-7; 9786612322396; 1-4106-0920-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823643503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Vocational Psychology Series