Positive psychology focuses on the characteristics of life that lead to happiness, fulfilment and flourishment. It takes the side of scientifically informed perspectives on what gives meaning to life and what makes it worth living (Dunlap, 1923). The aim of positive psychology is to focus on what is right with people rather than what is wrong with them; preventing mental...
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Positive Psychology is an approach that became notable around 1990 and was devised by Martin Seligman (Scorsolini-comin' et al. 2013). It is deemed a scientific approach that is used to study human experiences such as happiness, well-being, and the development of significant relationships (Carr, 2011). Pentti et al. (2019) discussed how they believe there are five core components of Positive...
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Abstract In Authentic Happiness Seligman suggests a formula for happiness, The Pleasant Life, The Good Life, and The Meaningful Life, encouraging people to seek a meaningful life in a continual quest for happiness. (Seligman 161). Seligman's theory reconciles two conflicting views of human happiness, the individualistic approach, which emphasizes that we should take care of ourselves and nurture our own...
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We all know this phrase that was said a long time ago: 'Love your neighbor as yourself'. However, few people have understood the meaning. It is very welcome to love our neighbors, even if our needs are not met. But as you often say in the sentence above, putting yourself in the first place is synonymous with egoism. However, a...
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The desire to find meaning is recognized as a fundamental human quest. Adler introduced us to the realization that humans live in the world of meaning, Frankl convinced us to believe that our life is directed at and guided by meaning, while Freud suggested that all our actions mean something. Meaning in life is seen as an important construct which...
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world”. True words from Holocaust survivor, Ann Frank. Everyone at some time in their life is once told to be optimistic about something. Many of us have been told an analogy of optimism is to think of a glass half full instead of it...
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Chinese philosopher Confucius explored what is needed to achieve happiness and sustain it. He believed that happiness is largely down to the individuals’ moral innocence and place within society rather than the individuals desires. Confucius looks at multiple ways to develop good character throughout our lives by increasing our place in society and thus increasing our happiness. One element Confucian’s...
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Positive psychology is the determination of the processes and situations that contribute to the flourishing or maximum operation of individuals, groups, and people. People become optimistic by having a positive attitude towards situations, people, events and outcomes. in the history of optimism, it has been shown that it has enhanced a celebration to live in the best of all worlds...
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2004 Household Economic Studies, only 61 percent of children are raised from birth to age eighteen in a home with both of their birth parents. What this statistic told us was that if we as society don’t open our eyes to new ways of defining family, we’ll miss a real opportunity to make our...
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Psychology is the art and science of behavior. It is a subject which is not just enclosed in books, but one that lies in the realm of reality, and becomes a part of our everyday life. Human tendency, more often than not is to not look at the flipside of things, but to look at the conventional path endorsed by...
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A revolution in the science of emotion has emerged in the last few decades, dealing with how positive and negative emotions mold individuals in an unexpected manner, with the prospective to create a theory shift in assessment of decision theories. The review reveals that emotions constitute dominant, persistent, and conventional drivers of decision making thus affecting an indivdual. Across different...
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This paper will examine the use of positive psychological exercises on well-being through viewing variations of heart rate when completing the exercises. Research from Cohen and Pressman (2006) state that disorders, such as, depression and anxiety have been examined as a larger risk for mortality rates. A great extent of research has proved that greater wellbeing has a strong correlation...
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Focus on positive ideas to deal with a situation than wallowing in sadness or anxiety. Kindness when shared, multiplies, and changes one’s perspective A gratitude journal or notes of things that one is thankful for, reminds one of good times. Difficult times like economic crisis, political unrest, and pandemic bring out anxiety and sadness in a majority of Americans. But...
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John Locke: our psychological properties define the self In this paper, I will propose a background for understanding personal identity based on the phenomenological premise of a proceeded with a continuous flow of consciousness across time, from the concept of John Locke: our psychological properties define the self. To find the problems of changes in consciousness or absences in a...
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The essay reveals how the theory of anomalous monism attempts to answer the physical status of mental events, the status of psychology, and the mind-body problem. From the outset, we should point out that Davidson believed psychology to be fundamentally different from sciences such as physics; his explanation of this is that, unlike physics, we cannot create laws or principles...
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Today I’m going to be sharing with you all about the effects of Positive Thinking. Positive thinking on the surface sounds useful and I'm sure most of us would prefer to be positive rather than negative. There was this one quote saying, “If you learn to harness the power of positive thoughts, you’ll attract more positive circumstances”. However, you will...
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The most defining factor of my schooling so far is my community involvement through two of the most significant charity associations in Hong Kong – the Hong Kong Joint School Volunteering Association (JSVA) and the Hing Kong Lion Club. Such extensive social work gave me many excellent opportunities to have meaningful interactions with the different factions within my community. Each...
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Transformational Psychology is a union of every single known arrangement of individual upgrade; a crate of all the most functional systems of development treatment, ceaselessly added to as new techniques and thoughts are painstakingly assessed. The entire is more prominent than the aggregate of the parts, be that as it may, since the strategies are intended to stir the cerebrum...
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Introduction Jessica is a 3-year-old girl who has speech and language difficulties. She has spent the majority of her life around her primary socialization which consists of her mum and gran. When she started nursery the Practitioners realised there was an issue with her speech and language, Practitioners can pick up on milestones in children and Jessica wasn’t meeting her...
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Have you ever wondered why someone around you, or even yourself, behaved or thought about something a certain way? If you answered “no” to this question, you would be lying. Concern for human behavior is a universal behavior among humans that has been prevalent since at least the eighth century BC in Ancient Greece. Philosophers wanted to understand what they...
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The Psychological Society (BPS) defines psychology as 'the scientific study of people, the mind, and behavior' (BPS, 2020, as cited in Gross, 2020). This essay will discuss the arguments for and against psychology being regarded as a science, which is defined as 'the systematic study of nature and behavior of the material and physical universe, based on observation, experiment, and...
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Broadly speaking, it is no doubt true that clinical psychologists come across the complexity of human nature through their practice every day (Forman, 2010). Human thinking and behavior are not something fixed. Biological, psychological, and social factors are combined together and interact with each other leading to unique results in clients’ lives. When people enter into therapy, regardless of their...
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When we hear the word optimism, we can get a sense of hope, confidence, or joy. Optimism is the hope for the future, the belief that everything will turn out favorably, it is seeing the glass as half full, not half empty. In this essay, I will talk about the reasons why we should adopt a more optimistic way of...
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