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Showing 1 to 20 of 209 for “"positive psychology"”.
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From Coach to Positive Psychology Coach
The success of positive psychology interventions and visual learning methods combined with the growing field of executive coaching provides rich opportunity to develop potentially transformative positive coaching methods. My hypothesis is that it is possible to become a deeper coach helping clients …
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Positive psychology within the clinical context
Background: Positive psychology is a subdomain of psychology concerned with the development and enhancement of well-being, strengths and conditions conducive to human flourishing. A plethora of research now supports the efficacy of positive psychology interventions in increasing well-being and …
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Positive Psychology Toolkit for Coaches: Book Proposal
… University of Pennsylvania Masters in Applied Positive Psychology program begins with a book prospectus that briefly describes the book’s proposed content, target audience, market potential, competitive works and author’s experience. This is followed by an annotated table of contents that gives …
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Designing a Positive Psychology Course for Lawyers
… conduct and early professional formation. Positive psychology, with its emphasis on the evidence-based study of how people can thrive, not just be treated for mental illness or emotional difficulty, can aid these additional educational objectives. This Article examines some of the ongoing …
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Using Positive Psychology to Grow Through Grief
… as well as a customized application plan for how positive psychology can be further integrated into Children’s Bereavement Center’s services. We include a situation analysis of the grief sector, looking specifically at Children’s Bereavement Center’s influence in southern Florida, a literature …
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Building a Foundation for Positive Psychology in Schools
… non-urban school system completed one or more positive psychology questionnaires assessing strengths of character; happiness; orientation toward pleasure, engagement, and meaning as three different paths to happiness; explanatory style; orientation toward teaching as a job, a career, or a …
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Parenting a child with cancer: positive psychology and coping
… themes from across participants. In this study, positive psychology literature was used as a theoretical guide to focus interviews. Positive psychology is concerned with the study of positive emotions or characteristics, positive relationships and positive organisations, and how people may draw …
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Positive Psychology: A Scholar-Practitioner Approach to Evidence Based Coaching
In this thesis, I assert positive psychology is the science at the heart of coaching and argue it is an evidence-based coaching model. I provide a background of positive psychology and briefly discuss its history, evolution, psychological influences and current challenges. I discuss the nature of …
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Positive psychology and sleep: the influence of an internet-based exercise
… pathology. An alternative approach offered by positive psychology considers whether those who have good sleep quality (SQ) show high levels of subjective well-being (SWB). Evidence is limited, but recent findings have linked good sleep with constructs that are central to SWB, including trait …
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The Intersection of Positive Psychology and Teachers' Dispositional Fitness: A Delphi Study
… study, two previously unaligned constructs, positive psychology and teacher dispositions, were synthesized for the purpose of: a) identifying the most compelling teacher dispositions that infuse positive psychology into positive classroom communities, and b) suggesting observable behaviors …
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Toward a theory of positive psychology in supporting child-centred family language policy
… dissertation focuses on exploring the role of positive psychology in the design of child-centred family language policy (FLP) to support home language maintenance in transnational bilingual families with young children learning two or more languages simultaneously at home. This study aims to …
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Career Matters: Leveraging Positive Psychology to Guide Us to Good and Right Work
… the difference? I believe that the principles of positive psychology can be applied to the career navigation process to elevate and enhance our capacity to find good and right work. In this paper, I will look through a positive psychology lens at career development theory and propose a series of …
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To SeE Others Flourish: Towards the Integration of Positive Psychology Into Ombuds Practice
This paper proposes a novel application of positive psychology to optimize the well-being of ombuds and our clients, organizations, and field. Specifically, a new framework for ombuds casework is introduced. Consistent with self-determination theory, ombuds can help clients to satisfy the core …
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The Impact of Art Based Positive Psychology on Stress Reduction for Working Mothers
… at the impact of art therapy, combined with positive psychology, on working mothers’ perceptions of their ability to manage stress by using the coping skills they already had developed. It was found that when working mothers identified their strengths in Positive Psychology questionnaires and …
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Positive psychology intervention for girls with conduct problems: a single-case time-series design
… youth offenders with psychopathic traits. The Positive Psychology Intervention (PPI; Salekin, 2010) was designed to fulfil this purpose. The current study aimed to examine the effectiveness of PPI in reducing psychopathic traits in a sample of female juvenile offenders. Method: The participants …
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The Art of Flourishing: Integrating Positive Psychology with Art Therapy to Promote Growth from Trauma
… for integration between the fields of positive psychology and art therapy in the treatment of trauma. The experience of trauma is widespread: between 60-89% of people will likely experience at least one traumatic event during their lifetime (Kilpatrick, Resnick, & Acierno, 2009; Mills …
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Intersectional Examination of Individuation and Emotional Intelligence: Longitudinal Associations with Positive Psychology and Multicultural Psychology
… Gaps exist in explicating underlying concepts of positive development in this developmental period. Individuation and emotional intelligence have been identified as crucial developmental tasks for emerging adults (Lapsley & Edgerton, 2002; Fernandez, Salamonson, & Griffiths, 2012). Positive …
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A Positive Psychology Perspective on Chinese EFL Students’ Well-Being, Language Mindset, and English Performance
… The research results indicated a strong positive correlation between well-being levels and GLM among Chinese higher vocational students (<em>r</em> = .589). Moreover, weak positive correlations were confirmed between well-being levels, GLM, and CET 4 scores. Surprisingly, due to the …
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What makes a flourishing language self? A positive psychology perspective on LOTE learners’ language learning motivation
… a language other than English (LOTE) from a positive psychology perspective (PP). Three overarching research aims were adopted as follows: <br>1. To unravel Chinese learners’ LOTE motivational profiles; <br>2. To identify the LOTE motivational trajectories among Chinese learners; <br>3. To …
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An Integrated Literature Review of Trust and Well-being and Implications for Trust Models and Positive Psychology
Trust has not yet been explored by positive psychologists. This paper reviews the literature on trust, discusses four well-being models, summarizes the relationship between trust and well-being and considers implications. Two main conclusions are reached. First, a strong and significant …
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