Positive Psychology: Theory, Research and Applications
Open University Press (Verlag)
978-0-335-26218-2 (ISBN)
Ilona Boniwell and Aneta Tunariu skilfully combine a breadth of information about positive psychology with reflective questions, critical commentary and up-to-date research. Written in a witty, engaging and contemporary manner, this new edition includes:
• Chapter summaries to help you check your understanding and speed up your revision
• Experiments boxes to highlight research methodologies and contextualize the latest psychological findings
• Personal development exercises to enhance your skills in wellbeing
• Review questions to test your knowledge
• Suggested resources to make your study time more efficient
• Time out boxes to highlight key concepts and thinkers
• Think about it boxes to develop your critical thinking skills
• Measurement tools to introduce you to current thinking and debates
• Mock essay questions to help you practise for your exam
• Further reflection topics to delve deeper
• Links to media materials within as well as beyond the typical academic literature
• End of chapter quizzes to help you check your understanding
Positive Psychology is essential reading for students taking modules in positive psychology and wellbeing; will be of interest to students of applied, coaching and sports psychology; and can help develop practising psychologists, coaches, counsellors and researchers interested in this burgeoning field of mental wellbeing and human happiness.
"A highly recommended resource for teaching and studying positive psychology. Up-to-date, incorporating both the history and the latest developments in this field. Very clearly laid out, with key topics and concepts explained well along with practical learning activities for the use in classroom and/or for students’ individual learning."
Vanessa King, MAPP (UPenn), Board Member Action for Happiness
Kate Hefferon is a Chartered Psychologist, Senior lecturer and Programme Leader of the MSc in Applied Positive Psychology at the University of East London. She is the author of several peer -reviewed papers, chapters and books including 'Positive Psychology and the body: The somatopsychic side to flourishing'. Kate’s research interests lie in the area of health, physical activity and posttraumatic growth. Ilona Boniwell is one of the world leaders in positive psychology, having founded and headed the first Masters Degree in Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) in Europe at the University of East London. Nowadays, she teaches Positive Leadership and Positive Performance at l’Ecole Centrale Paris, writes a monthly column for Psychologies (UK and Russia), and consults around the world as a director of Positran. Her main teaching expertise lies in the areas of positive psychology and positive scholarship, with research interests around: subjective time use, time perspective, eudaimonic well-being and applications of positive psychology to business, one-to-one work and education.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Positive Psychology
Chapter 2: Understanding Emotions
Chapter 3: Happiness and Subjective Wellbeing
Chapter 4: Eudaimonic Wellbeing
Chapter 5: Optimism, Explanatory Style and Hope
Chapter 6: Resilience, Post Traumatic Growth and Positive Aging
Chapter 7: Values, Motivation and Goal Theories
Chapter 8: Positive Psychological Interventions
Chapter 9: Physical Activity and Positive Psychology
Chapter 10: Applying Positive Psychology
Chapter 11: Summing up Positive Psychology
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.06.2019 |
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| Verlagsort | Milton Keynes |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 172 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 568 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-335-26218-X / 033526218X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-335-26218-2 / 9780335262182 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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