Beautiful Thinking in Action: Positive Psychology, Psychodrama, and Positive Psychotherapy

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-67
Author(s):  
Dan Tomasulo
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Positive Psychotherapy

Goal focused positive psychotherapy: an integration of positive psychology and psychotherapy

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-95
Author(s):  
Evelyn I. Winter Plumb ◽  
Kathryn J. Hawley ◽  
Margaret P. Boyer ◽  
Michael J. Scheel ◽  
Collie W. Conoley
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Positive Psychotherapy

Epilogue

2012 ◽  
pp. 201-204
Author(s):  
Jairo N. Fuertes ◽  
Arnold R. Spokane ◽  
Elizabeth Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Vocational Psychology ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Positive Psychotherapy ◽  
Helping Skills ◽  
Process And Outcome

The epilogue considers advancements of knowledge in psychology in areas such as helping skills, the process and outcome of treatment, the proper use of evidence-based professional practice, vocational psychology, multiculturalism, supervision, and consultation, as well as primary challenges for the profession, and emerging areas of research, including the movement towards positive psychology and positive psychotherapy, and cultural differences.

scholarly journals The Model for Sustainable Mental Health: Future Directions for Integrating Positive Psychology Into Mental Health Care

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernst Bohlmeijer ◽  
Gerben Westerhof
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Psychological Treatment ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Complete Recovery ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Personal Recovery ◽  
Positive Psychotherapy

This position paper proposes a model for systematic integration of positive psychology interventions (PPIs) in mental healthcare. On the one hand, PPIs can contribute to the decrease of dysfunctional processes underlying mental illness. This evidence is at the core of the new domains of positive clinical psychology and positive psychiatry. On the other hand, a growing number of studies demonstrate that mental health is not merely the absence of mental illness. Mental wellbeing represents a related but separate dimension of mental health. Mental wellbeing reduces the risk of future incidence of mental illness and is highly valued by people receiving psychological treatment as an important aspect of personal and complete recovery and personal growth. This makes mental wellbeing a vital outcome of mental healthcare. PPIs can directly increase mental wellbeing. The model of sustainable mental health is presented integrating the science of positive psychology and mental wellbeing into mental healthcare. This heuristic model can guide both practitioners and researchers in developing, implementing, and evaluating a more balanced, both complaint- and strength-oriented, treatment approach. The role of gratitude interventions is discussed as an example of applying the model. Also, three potential modalities for implementing PPIs as positive psychotherapy in treatment are as: positive psychotherapy as primary treatment, as combinatorial treatment, and as intervention for personal recovery of people with severe or persistent mental disorder. Finally, we argue that longitudinal studies are needed to substantiate the model and the processes involved.

Positive Psychotherapy

2018 ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Tayyab Rashid ◽  
Martin Seligman
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Therapeutic Approach ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Positive Psychotherapy ◽  
Psychiatric Distress ◽  
The Impact

Positive psychotherapy (PPT) is an emerging therapeutic approach that is broadly based on the principles of positive psychology (PP). PP studies the conditions and processes that enable individuals, communities, and institutions to flourish. PPT is the clinical or therapeutic arm of PP. PPT integrates symptoms with strengths, risks with resources and deficits with assets. Without dismissing the severity psychiatric distress, or naively minimizing clients’ genuine concerns, PPT identifies and teaches clients evidence-based skills which use their best resources to meet their toughest challenges. Specifically, PPT helps clients to translate their cognitive, emotional, social and cultural strengths into goal-oriented, purposeful and pragmatic actions and habits, which aim to reduce their psychiatric distress as well as enhance their well-being. A strengths-based approach such as PPT can improve the effectiveness of psychotherapy by expanding the scope of psychotherapy, broadening beyond the medical model, expanding the outcome of psychotherapy, and attenuating the impact on the clinician.

Goal focused positive psychotherapy: an integration of positive psychology and psychotherapy

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-233
Author(s):  
Evelyn I. Winter Plumb ◽  
Kathryn J. Hawley ◽  
Margaret P. Boyer ◽  
Michael J. Scheel ◽  
Collie W. Conoley
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Positive Psychotherapy

Positive Psychotherapy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tayyab Rashid ◽  
Martin Seligman
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Main Topic ◽  
Positive Psychotherapy

Positive psychotherapy (PPT) is a therapeutic endeavor within positive psychology that aims to alleviate symptomatic stress by way of enhancing well-being. Traditional psychotherapy does a good job of making clients feel, for example, less depressed or less anxious, but the well-being of clients is not an explicit goal. Positive psychology studies the conditions and processes that enable individuals, communities, and institutions to flourish. PPT integrates symptoms with strengths, risks with resources, weaknesses with values, and regrets with hopes, in order to understand the inherent complexities of human experience in a balanced way. This workbook contains 15 chapters (plus an introduction and conclusion) to correspond with the skills and practices clients learn in session. Each session focuses on one or more practice; every chapter also includes three things to know about the main topic, worksheets, reflection and discussion points, and “in real life” client stories. Each chapter also includes a list of relevant books, videos, and websites related to the issues discussed in the chapter.

scholarly journals Positive Interventions in the Therapy of Schizophrenia Patients

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryla Sawicka ◽  
Agnieszka Żochowska
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Symptoms ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Positive Psychotherapy ◽  
Therapeutic Goals ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
The Individual

Abstract Positive psychology directs its research interests primarily to healthy people. The most important goal is to build a positive attitude towards yourself and the surrounding world. Recently, positive psychology has set a new area of research interest, which is clinical psychology. In recent years, several positive psychotherapy programs have been developed for people with schizophrenia experience. The article presents the latest trends in positive psychotherapy for people with schizophrenia. They involve taking into account the individual differences of each patient and the specificity of his / her psychopathology. As far as the therapeutic goals are concerned, there are interventions focused on strategies for enhancing positive emotions and wellbeing or the method of activating the strengths of character. Taking into account the methods of therapeutic work, they can be divided into training methods or those of the behavioral-cognitive psychotherapy as well as those that take into account the various aspects of meditation. The article presents the distribution of therapeutic programs in terms of the range of therapeutic goals in which the most important are: intensification of positive experiences, building of strengths of character and well-being. Therapeutic programs have been shown to focus not only on breaking down negative attitudes towards one’s own illness and life, but also on those that try to deal with the unsolved schizophrenia problem - negative symptoms.

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