An Examination of Positive Psychology
Keywords:
Positive, psychology, identifiedAbstract
The field of positive psychology is sometimes derided as little more than happy talk. However, practitioners of these treatments assert that they provide psychiatry's conventional emphasis on psychological suffering and disease a much-required counterbalance to that focus. The word positive psychology refers to an expansive field that incorporates a wide range of approaches that inspire individuals to recognise and cultivate the positive aspects of their lives, including positive emotions, experiences, and personality qualities. Humanistic psychology serves as a foundation for many aspects of positive psychology, including its central beliefs. “The client-centered therapy developed by Carl Rogers, for instance, was predicated on the idea that individuals might make positive changes in their life by just being themselves and communicating those changes. And Abraham Maslow recognised characteristics of persons who have achieved self-actualization that are comparable to the character qualities found and used in various positive psychology programmes.
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