Character Strengths and Abilities Within Disabilities
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-36293-4 (ISBN)
This book examines the science and practice of character strengths as the backbone for understanding, studying, and applying positive interventions across a wide range of disabilities. It explores character strengths as positive personality qualities most central to an individual's identity that create positive outcomes for building well-being and managing adversities and contribute to the collective good. The book recognizes disability as a part of the human experience that can emerge for anyone and the necessity for examining and applying strengths-based approaches. It explores what is known about character strengths and various disabilities from a science and practice perspective. The book reviews research on the assessment, correlations, concepts, populations, and applications of character strengths across disabilities. It disseminates disparate research and little-known best practices and hypothetical practices, along with multiple case examples, in the effort to advance the science and practice, bring a balanced approach to the field, and contribute to human flourishing.
Key topics of coverage include:
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and character strengths.
- Intellectual and physical disabilities, medical illness and character strengths.
- Mental and emotional disorders (e.g., trauma) and character strengths.
- Character strengths and disability across special issues including justice, inclusion, dual-diagnosis, and spirituality.
- Understanding character strengths as internal capacities and abilities across disabilities, problems, and suffering.
Character Strengths - the Abilities Within Disabilities is an essential and valuable resource for researchers, professors, clinicians, practitioners, and therapists as well as graduate students in the fields of developmental and positive psychology, rehabilitation, social work, special education, occupational, speech and language therapy, public health, and healthcare policy.
lt;b>Ryan M. Niemiec, Psy.D., is a leading figure in the global education, research, and practice of character strengths that are found in all human beings. He is the education director of the renowned VIA Institute on Character, a nonprofit organization in Cincinnati OH that leads the global advancement of the science of character strengths. Dr. Niemiec is an award-winning psychologist, certified coach, annual instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, special guest faculty at 5 coaching and positive psychology agencies, and author of 11 books, 90+ academic papers, including a thought leadership paper on the integration of character strengths in the intellectual/developmental disability field as well as several hundred user-friendly articles. His books include the bestselling consumer book, The Power of Character Strengths, the popular stress workbook, The Strengths-Based Workbook for Stress Relief, the 2020 workbook The Positivity Workbook for Teens, and Positive Psychology at the Movies. He is also author of two of the leading practitioner-focused books in positive psychology: Character Strengths Interventions and Mindfulness and Character Strengths. The latter book contains the evidenced-based program he founded, Mindfulness-Based Strengths Practice (MBSP), used by practitioners across the globe. Dr. Niemiec has been interviewed by several luminaries, including the legendary Larry King in 2020. He's given nearly 1,000 presentations on positive psychology topics, including a character strengths world tour in 2009-2010, a TEDx talk in 2017, a speaking tour of Australia, a keynote at a Harvard conference, and invited presentations at conferences across the globe. He is Fellow of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) and serves on their Council of Advisors. He is currently co-founder and president of the Spirituality/Meaning Division of IPPA.
Dan Tomasulo, Ph.D., is the Academic Director and core faculty member at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute (SMBI), Teachers College, Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology, an MFA in writing, and a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. He has also been a teaching fellow at Princeton University. Sharecare honors Dr. Tomasulo as one of the top ten online influencers on the issue of depression. His most recent book, Learned Hopefulness, The Power of Positivity To Overcome Depression, is hailed as: "...the perfect recipe for fulfillment, joy, peace, and expansion of awareness", by Deepak Chopra, M.D. and Martin Seligman, Ph.D. His award-winning memoir, American Snake Pit (2018), tells of the first experimental group home releasing inmates from America's most notorious asylum, Willowbrook. Dr Tomasulo coauthored the American Psychological Association's first book on psychotherapy for people with intellectual and psychiatric disabilities and published numerous articles on innovations in delivering mental health and well-being services. Dr. Tomasulo was the lead author for the first Diagnostic Manual - Intellectual Disability (DM-ID), identifying the criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in people with intellectual disabilities. He has been elected to fellow of the American Society for Group Psychotherapy/Psychodrama and served as a board member for this organization and the National Association for Dually Diagnosed (NADD). The International Positive Psychology Association has presented Dr. Tomasulo the Avant-Garde Clinical Intervention award.
Section 1. Foundations for Character Strengths and Disabilities.- Chapter 1. Introduction to Strengths-Based Approaches and Disability.- Chapter 2: Ability, Well-Being, and Resilience in Individuals with Disabilities.- Sections 2. Character Strengths for Specific Disabilities.- Chapter 3: Intellectual Developmental Disorder and Character Strengths.- Chapter 4: Dual Diagnosis and Character Strengths.- Chapter 5: Trauma, Disabilities, and Character Strengths.- Chapter 6. Psychological Disorders and Character Strengths.- Chapter 7: Physical Disabilities, and Character Strengths.- Chapter 8: Medical Disorders, Health, and Character Strengths.- Section 3. Special Topics and Character Strengths.- Chapter 9: Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) and Intellectual Developmental Disorder.- Chapter 10: Spirituality, Meaning, and Intellectual Developmental Disorder.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.08.2023 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Positive Psychology and Disability Series |
| Zusatzinfo | XVIII, 203 p. 2 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 460 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie |
| Schlagworte | Anxiety, character strengths • Autism spectrum disorder, character strengths • Character strengths, positive interventions • Depression, character strengths • Down syndrome, character strengths • Dual diagnosis, character strengths • Gender, disability, character strengths • IDDs, positive psychology • Intellectual developmental disorder (IDDs) • Physical disability, character strengths • Positive personality qualities, character strengths • Positive psychology, character strengths • Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), character strengths • Race, disability, character strengths • Sensory disabilities, character strengths • Signature strengths, developmental disabilities • Signature strengths, intellectual disabilities • Spirituality, disability, character strengths • Strengths-based approach, mental health disorders • VIA (Values in Action) Classification and Inventory |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-36293-4 / 3031362934 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-36293-4 / 9783031362934 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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