Positive psychology

Der Autor, Mario Eduard Giovanelli vermittelt in seinem einfach verständlichen, informativen, meist ernsthaft, manchmal auch witzig, zynisch und sarkastisch geschriebenen Buch, 'Zum Blöken zu dämlich - Von den Dummheiten und Irrtümern Einzelner über die der Massen, bis hin zur Beherrschung des Schach des Lebens', im ersten Teil über sowohl historische als auch gegenwärtige Dummheiten, Irrtümer und Fehlentscheidungen Einzelner bis hin zu denen der Massen.

Jeder von uns kennt das schöne und erfüllende Gefühl, wenn man etwas Gutes getan und Menschen eine Freude gemacht hat.

Vor Jahren hätte ich mich nicht getraut, der Patientin zu sagen »Sie erzählen sich die falschen Geschichten!

Die Handlungen dieses Buches, sind die Gefühle und Worte, meines pubertierenden Bewusstseins.

This book presents an international review of the principle new post-modern narrative interventions in Guidance and Career Counseling.

This book provides an overview of theoretical, empirical, and clinical conceptualizations of mental health following exposure to human rights violations (HRV).

This textbook examines the extent to which moral values play a role as productive forces for the economy, and explores the effect of ethical and unethical Behavior on the economy.

This volume focuses explicitly on close relationships as a reliable source for individual happiness and well-being across cultures.

This book explores the concepts from Scripture for Servant leadership and compare these findings with contemporary models of servant leadership.

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.

This book focuses on what makes people happy.

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 book offers both sport psychology practitioners and sport athletes a clear understanding of mindfulness to help athletes optimize sport performance.

This book shares the theoretical advancements that have been made regarding psychological ownership since the development of the construct and specifically the practical applications within multi-cultural and cross-cultural environments.

This book offers an introduction to structural dynamics, ripple effect and resilience in supply chain disruption risk management for larger audiences.

The current volume presents new empirical data on well-being of youth and emerging adults from a global international perspective.

This book serves as an introduction to the Nordic approach to Occupational Health Psychology and illustrates how this perspective can be transferred to a global audience.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art on the adaptive and maladaptive functions of humor.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of findings from the Children's Worlds project - the most extensive and diverse study to have been conducted globally on children's own views of their lives.

This book assesses the life and success of the writer Paulo Coelho, one of the most fascinating and contemporary writers in the world, through new lenses.

This edited volume focuses on different views of happiness and well-being, considering constructs like meaning and spirituality in addition to the more standard constructs of positive emotion and life satisfaction.

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 book disseminates the current trends among innovative and high-quality research regarding the implementation of conceptual frameworks, strategies, techniques, methodologies, informatics platforms and models for developing advanced industrial tools and techniques and their application in different fields.

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.