Preface -- Introduction -- Positive psychology -- The actualising tendency -- Developmental and personality theory -- The therapeutic relationship -- Process direction and person-activity fit -- Person-centred psychopathology -- Posttraumatic growth -- Theoretically consistent measurement -- Conclusion: reflections, challenges, and future
Summary
The applications of positive psychology are different from traditional interventions in therapy in that they are focused on building strength, resilience and well-being rather than being restricted to simply treating disorder. Since the publication of the first edition of Positive Therapy, there is now a comprehensive body of applied positive psychology research to which practitioners may turn in order to inform their own practice, and that sees its purpose as the facilitation of human flourishing and optimal functioning. However, much of this research and its implications are only now becomin
Notes
Revised edition of the author's Positive therapy, 2006
