Positive psychology

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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 book brings together a diversity of perspectives on the psychology of ageing.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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 book applies the analytical framework used by economists to investigate how one can make the most out of one's life, thus achieving happiness and fulfilment.

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.