Positive Psychological Intervention Design and Protocols for Multi-Cultural Contexts

Llewellyn van Zyl (PhD) is currently an assistant professor of work and organizational psychology at the University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. He also holds an extraordinary professorship in Industrial Psychology with the Optentia Research Focus Area at the North-West University. Academically, he has completed a Doctorate degree in the field of Industrial Psychology, specializing in the development and evaluation of Positive Psychological Interventions aimed at increasing happiness. He also holds a Master of Commerce, an Honours and a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Psychology, which were obtained from the North-West University (cum laude) at the top of his class. These qualifications provided him with a means to register with the Health Professions Council of South Africa as a psychologist (cat: industrial). Professionally, Llewellyn is a respected researcher and published author of various scientific articles and specialist books. Within the scientific community he is known for his academic work as Associate Editor of the South African Journal of Industrial Psychology as well as his work on the editorial board of the Journal of Leadership and Organizational studies. Llewellyn has extensive experience within the tertiary educational environment (as a lecturer and researcher), as well as within the private and public sectors (as a consultant). Llewellyn has a passion for Online Positive Psychological Interventions aimed at talent development and consumer behaviour. As of 1 January 2017, Llewellyn holds the ranking as a C2 rated researcher with the National Research Foundation within South Africa. Sebastiaan Rothmann (Ph.D) is a professor in Industrial/Organisational Psychology at the North-West University (Vanderbijlpark Campus) and the Director of the Optentia Research Programme in South Africa. His research journey started with the topics of stress, burnout and work engagement and has evolved towards prospering and flourishing of people in work and organisational contexts. People who prosper in work and organisational contexts are satisfied with their jobs, experience positive emotions, are energetic, learning and dedicated, experience satisfaction of their autonomy, competence and relatedness needs, find meaning and purpose in their work, experience harmony and relate positively. He focuses on researching the prospering of people at work, the antecedents and outcomes thereof, and intervention programmes that could contribute to prospering of individuals and organisations.

1. Best practice guidelines for positive psychological intervention experimental designs 2. Adventure Therapy and Positive Psychology: A match made in ... nature.- 3 Taking a Strengths-Based Approach to Address Discrimination Experiences in a Clinical Context.- 4 A Framework for Assessing and Developing Self-Regulatory Positive Psychological Career Attributes for Sustained Employability.- 5 The Open Case Setting as a Person-Centred Innovation embracing Positive Psychological Principles.- 6 Moving forward in fostering humor: Towards benevolent humor training in multicultural contexts.- 7 Self-determination and positive psychological interventions: Two sides of the same coin.- 8 The Narrative Identity Team Intervention (NiTi): A positive psychological team-based story-telling intervention.- 9 Positive arts interventions: Creative tools helping mental health students flourish.- 10 Psychological capital development: an integrativereview of the evidence-based procedures.- 11. Happiness Raised By Raising Awareness Of How Happy One Feels. Effect Of Happiness Self-Monitoring Using The Happiness Indicator.- 12 Gratitude Interventions: Meta-Analytic Support for Numerous Personal Benefits With Caveats.- 13 Developing Savoring Interventions for Use in Multicultural Contexts: Bridging the East-West Divide.- 14 Positive psychological interventions aimed at managing territorial behaviours within the organisational context.- 15 The potential of Job Demands-Resources Interventions in organizations.- 16 Guidelines for the cultural adaptation of group-based positive psychology interventions.- What makes employees flourish? A positive psychology framework for interventions in multi-cultural contexts.- 18. A Review Of The Efficacy And Application Of Positive Psychological Interventions To Indigenous Populations.- 19 Solution-focused counselling as intervention approach for industrial psychology practitioners: A systematic literature review.- 20 How to create a flourishing classroom? An intervention protocol for enhancing teachers' social and emotional learning.