This specially selected collection of landmark work from the Journal of Happiness Studies maps the current contours, and the likely future direction, of research in a field with a fast-rising profile.
This book provides an introduction to and a dynamic description of a new psychological paradigm that balances the excesses and distortions of the positive psychology paradigm.
This book integrates research in positive psychology, Islamic psychology, and Muslim wellbeing in one volume, providing a view into the international experiential and spiritual lives of a religious group that represents over 24% of the world's population.
This edited collection explores Positive Sociology of Leisure (PSL) as a subfield relating to leisure studies, sociology of leisure, and sociology of happiness.
Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Reinkarnationstherapie und entdecken Sie die transformative Kraft vergangener Leben für Ihre persönliche Heilung.
This book addresses important topics of coaching in order to better understand what sports coaching is and the challenges that arise when assuming this activity.
This book explores students' and teachers' well-being from positive psychology and education perspectives and showcases interventions that optimize well-being in the school context.
This volume addresses the convincing belief that hope is an existential need and resource for living a good life, not only when all is going well, but especially in difficult times.
The book offers critical discussion, constructive insights and informed guidance for future research and applied work that can move us closer towards a sustainable society.
Students spend significantly more time in school compared to any other formal institution during their lives; therefore, mental health in schools has attracted a lot of attention in recent years.
This book provides an overview of theoretical, empirical, and clinical conceptualizations of mental health following exposure to human rights violations (HRV).
This book demonstrates how leaders can use research from positive psychology to increase work engagement and wellbeing, improve relationships, and increase performance and productivity in the workplace.
Based on the analysis of eighteen authentic and inspiring personal stories, this book illustrates how people with severe childhood disabilities achieved extraordinary career success.
This book highlights religious faith from a positive psychology perspective, examining the relationship between religious faith and optimal psychological functioning.
In recent times there has been growing interest in positive psychology as evidenced by the swell in positive psychology graduate programs, undergraduate courses, journals related to the topic, popular book titles on the topic and scholarly publications.
This volume explores the transition to parenthood from a holistic developmental approach, relating to barriers such as fertility problems and traumatic childbirth, as well as pathways such as positive experiences of pregnancy and childbirth.
Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Sie mit Hilfe verschiedener mentaler Techniken an Motivation, Vertrauen, Klarheit, Zielfokussierung und Konzentration gewinnen, Stress und Versagensängste bewältigen, Emotionen regulieren können sowie Entspannung finden.
This volume combines empirical research-based and theoretical perspectives on shame in cultural contexts and from socio-culturally different perspectives, providing new insights and a more comprehensive cultural base for contemporary research and practice in the context of shame.
'Bex and Laura really have pieced together the parachute we all need to help us land safely after falling into the world of loss and fertility struggles.
Ein Buch für Frauen und Männer, in den mittleren bis höheren Lebensjahren, für die die Prostata des Mannes plötzlich und unerwartet ein wichtiges körperliches Thema sein wird.
Dieses Fachbuch bereitet die Erkenntnisse der Positiven Psychologie, wie sich ein gutes Leben führen lässt und wie Glück und Wohlbefinden entstehen, sehr verständlich für die Anwendung in der Beratungspraxis, der Psychotherapie und der Personalentwicklung auf.
Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Sie mit Hilfe verschiedener mentaler Techniken an Motivation, Vertrauen, Klarheit, Zielfokussierung und Konzentration gewinnen, Stress und Versagensängste bewältigen, Emotionen regulieren können sowie Entspannung finden.
This book is a collection of essays advancing the discourse in well-being science, authored by key thought leaders in positive psychology and its variants, including positive education, character education, and positive organizational scholarship.
This handbook is the updated and expanded second edition of a highly cited and impactful collection, which provides new perspectives on humour from transdisciplinary perspectives.
This welcome resource traces the evolution of self-concept clarity and brings together diverse strands of research on this important and still-developing construct.
This edited collection explores Positive Sociology of Leisure (PSL) as a subfield relating to leisure studies, sociology of leisure, and sociology of happiness.
This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the origins of happiness in the modern Western culture and makes the argument that happiness is not universal but is instead a culturally and historically specific experience, characteristic only to the Western world.
This comparative resource charts the interface between the University of the Third Age (U3A) movement and active ageing, and in doing so, offers a comprehensive and thorough understanding of what U3A means in different geographical and sociocultural contexts.
