Positive psychology

This book discusses child well-being, with children and adolescents as key informants, from a Latin American perspective.

This volume addresses new innovations in quality of life and well-being from the perspectives of the individual, society and community.

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.

The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of research from different psychological domains with regards to intergroup helping, arguing for intergroup helping as a research area in and of itself.

In this book, experts discuss whether volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) represent a challenge or a business opportunity.

This book builds the bridge between the fields of clinical and positive psychology research and practice.

This book presents recent advancements in positive psychology, specifically its application across broad areas of current interest.

With female migrants dominating low paid and ever-expanding domestic work worldwide, this book brings together the voices of 120 migrating women of 28 national identities and 10 different religious affiliations.

This book closely interrogates the construct of identity and the role it plays in career development.

This volume connects aspects of personal health, overall well-being, and education to quality of life.

This book addresses one of the most critical issues facing global business leaders and the multicultural workforce - how to work and relate effectively in the intercultural contexts.

This book offers both marketing and sales professionals a rare combined insight into both worlds to continuously capture customer intelligence and create value, by blending detailed research with academic rigor and commercial experience of the authors in both Europe and North America.

Shows how to unlock the massive efficiency savings and productivity gains by reframing the approach to flexible working by concentrating on workforce agility.

This briefs offers a comprehensive view of the journey of grandparents of children with disabilities by employing a wide range of theoretical approaches such as intergenerational relationships, positive psychology, psychoanalytic views and models of stress.

This volume examines the questions of what constitutes a good life and how one can achieve happiness and well-being, and analyses different ways in which people can strive for a good life.

As the world is currently in the midst of financial and economic crises, this collection of expert contributions focuses on strategy formation and implementation at various organizational levels to address the challenges ahead.

This book gives the reader an understanding of what consciousness is about, and of how to make conscious experiences more pleasant.

This Handbook presents current research on children and youth in ethnic minority families.

This book focuses on well-being at school in association with positive peer relationships and bullying.

This book compares the unique features of workplace mediation to other contexts of mediation, as well as the specific competences each situation requires of the mediator.

This handbook presents the most comprehensive account of eudaimonic well-being to date.

This book examines the concept and practice of mentoring, as well as the wider scope and diversity of the mentoring that people can experience in their own life time.

This handbook informs the reader about how much progress we, the human race, have made in enhancing the quality of life on this planet.

Developing resilience skills has the potential to shield firefighters and other emergency responders from the negative effects of stressful incidents and situations.

This book explores health and leisure as a holistic phenomenon with individual and social dimensions.

This book introduces readers to the principles of a fairlynew branch of psychology positive psychology and demonstrates how they canbe applied in the context of second language acquisition in a naturalenvironment and in instructed foreign language (FL) learning.

This book presents 9 theory-based and practice-oriented methods for assessing and stimulating a multi-voiced dialogical self in the context of groups, teams, cultures, and organizations.

This book presents the most recent theoretical insights and practical intervention methods to (re)build trust between management and organized employees in organizations.

This textbook provides a clear understanding of leadership needs in today's business world, explained within the scope of hard and soft leadership skills.

This book is primarily intended to serve as a research-based textbook on sustainable supply chains for graduate programs in Business, Management, Industrial Engineering, and Industrial Ecology, but it should also be of interest for researchers in the broader sustainable supply chain space, whether from the operations management and industrial engineering side or more from the industrial ecology and life-cycle assessment side.

This volume provides updates and informs the reader about the development of the current empirical research on the flow experience.

This book proposes several commonly used interval-valued solution concepts of interval-valued cooperative games with transferable utility.

This volume focuses on breaking ground with family coaching, presenting theory, research and practical guidelines for researchers, educators and practitioners.

This handbook addresses the historical background of the Islamic world and reviews its basic past intellectual achievements.

This book discusses boundaries for organizational humour as well as the jokers and jesters that enliven modern workplaces.

This book discusses the risks of information concealment in the context of major natural or industrial disasters - offering detailed descriptions and analyses of some 25 historical cases (Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Bhopal disaster, Challenger Space Shuttle explosion, Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster, Enron's bankruptcy, Subprime mortgage crisis, Worldwide Spanish flu and SARS outbreaks, etc.

This brief defines student wellbeing and outlines seven evidence-informed pathways that schools can take to promote student wellbeing and develop their school as an enabling institution.

This book brings together the world's leading perfectionism researchers and theorists to present their latest findings and ideas on how and why perfectionism may confer risks or benefits for health and well-being, as well as the contexts which may shape these relationships.

This book focuses on the very nature and function of intuitive thought.

This book presents Responsible Adult Culture (RAC), a truly comprehensive program for helping offenders to think and act responsibly.

This monograph describes the contributions to our current understanding of quality of life made by the most important ancient philosophers in the Western Tradition.

This Brief integrates the literature and research on other-oriented hope.

This volume explores new ground in the area of personal transformation, achieved partly through a person's volition with a guide or catalyst.

This anthology examines the practical role of well-being in contemporary society.

This book presents a discussion of happiness that takes the shape of a dialogue between contemplative knowledge and practice or the wisdom traditions and the social sciences.

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 research-to-practice text explores how coaching can support thriving in the workplace.

This handbook informs the reader about how much progress we, the human race, have made in enhancing the quality of life on this planet.

This book presents a novel viewpoint in HR management: in addition to the macroeconomic factors (demographic development, industry 4.