Positive Psychology Therapy
Developed from theorist
Abraham Maslow
(1908 – 1970)
Created Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Carl Rogers
(1902 - 1987)
Developed the client-centered approach
Erich Fromm
(1900 – 1980)
Father of Positive Psychology
Martin Seligman
What is it?
This theory is based on the belief that happiness is derived from various factors, both emotional and mental. Positive psychology aims to help people identify the happiness moment to moment, rather than only in retrospection.
Theories
Pleasant Life - examines how people optimally experience, forecast, and savor the positive feelings and emotions that are part of normal and healthy living.
Good Life -Investigation of the beneficial effects of immersion, absorption, and flow, felt by individuals when optimally engaged with their primary activities.
Meaningful Life - questions how individuals derive a positive sense of well-being, belonging, meaning, and purpose from being part of and contributing back to something larger and more permanent than themselves.
Goal
To make normal life more fulfilling.
Approaches
Neuroscientific approach- neuroscience and brain imaging have shown increasing potential for helping science understand happiness and sadness. Though it may be impossible to achieve any comprehensive objective measure of happiness, some physiological correlates to happiness can be measured.
Evolutionary approach- an alternative approach to understanding happiness and quality of life.The evolutionary perspective points towards an understanding of what happiness is about and how to best exploit the capacities of the brain with which humans are endowed
Techniques
- Positive thinking
- Positive emotions
- Positive authenticity
- Positive choices
- Positive habits
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