Positive psychology: A Review
Keywords:
Positive, psychologyAbstract
Positive psychology is often dismissed as a happy chat. Yet practitioners say their approaches offer a much-needed balance to psychiatry's conventional emphasis on psychic pain and pathology. The term "positive psychology" is broad, encompassing a range of strategies that enable people to recognise and further cultivate their own positive emotions, experiences and traits of character. Positive psychology builds on key principles of humanistic psychology in many ways. Carl Rogers' client-centered counselling, for example, was based on the idea that people could better their lives by sharing their true selves. And Abraham Maslow identified characteristics in self-realized individuals that are close to the qualities of character identified and used in certain constructive psychological interventions.
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