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The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of positive psychological interventions /
Collating for the first time a range of techniques in positive psychology, this handbook introduces topics such as courage, empathy and humor, and spans areas as diverse as gratitude & forgiveness. It also explores special considerations such as ethics and motivation, and offers informed conject...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2014.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Established areas of intervention
- Gratitude interventions : a review and future agenda / Tara Lomas, Jeffrey J. Froh, Robert A. Emmons, Anjali Mishra, and Giacomo Bono
- Positive psychological interventions for promoting forgiveness : history, present status, and future prospects / Everett L. Worthington Jr., Nathaniel G. Wade, and William T. Hoyt
- Nurturing the capacity to savor : interventions to enhance the enjoyment of positive experiences / Jennifer L. Smith, Patrick R. Harrison, Jaime L. Kurtz, and Fred B. Bryant
- Promoting meaning and purpose in life / Joo Yeon Shin and Michael F. Steger
- Empathy-related interventions / Mark H. Davis and Ena Begovic
- New and emerging areas of intervention
- Creativity as a target and tool for positive intervention / Marie J.C. Forgeard and Katherine V. Eichner
- Do good things come to those who wait? patience interventions to improve well-being / Sarah A. Schnitker and Justin T. Westbrook
- Courage interventions : future directions and cautions / Cynthia Pury, Charles Starkey, Chad Breeden, Christie Kelley, Hannah Murphy, and Arden Lowndes
- Humor intervention programs / Willibald Ruch and Paul E. McGhee
- Enacting flow and student engagement in the college classroom / David J. Shernoff and Brett Anderson
- Positive education and teaching for wisdom / Michel Ferrari and Christine E. Guthrie
- Areas of application
- Positive family therapy interventions / Collie W. Conoley, Jane Close Conoley, and Marla E. Pontrelli
- Applications of positive psychology to individual therapy / Jeana L. Magyar-Moe
- Evidence-based coaching as a positive psychology intervention / Suzy Green and Gordon B. Spence
- Online positive psychological interventions : state of the art and future directions / Linda Bolier and Katherina Martin Abello
- Resilience interventions for youth / Amy Kranzler, Lindsay Liotta, and Jane Gillham
- Positive social identity interventions : finding a conduit for well-being in stigmatized group memberships / Thomas C. Ball and Michelle R. Nario-Redmond
- Adapting a positive psychology intervention for people with chizophrenia / Piper S. Meyer
- Adapting positive psychology for smoking cessation / Anne M. Day, Elise M. Clerkin, Nichea S. Spillane, and Christopher W. Kahler
- Special considerations
- Making happiness last : using the hedonic adaptation model to extend the success of positive interventions / Katherine Jacobs Bao and Sonja Lyubomirsky
- Person-activity fit in positive psychology interventions / Stephen M. Schueller
- Taking culture into account with positive psychological interventions / Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti
- Dovetailing ethical practice and postitive psychology to promote integrity, industriousness, innovation, and impact / Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick
- Beyond life satisfaction: a scientific approach to well-being gives us much more to measure / Jos L. Duarte
- Positive psychology interventions and self-perceptions : a cautionary tale? / Kasley M. Killam and Young-Hoon Kim
- Act well to be well : the promise of changing personality states to promote well-being / Laura E.R. Blackie, Ann Marie Roepke, Marie J.C. Forgeard, Eranda Jayawickreme, and William Fleeson
- Index.