After reading the material on Positive Psychology Interventions for this week, please create a post that contains each of the following 3 items (with a minimum 300 words total). Cite sources and include a reference list:
Discuss two valuable “takeaways” you gained when reading about positive psychology interventions, and why you feel these items are significant.
Select a day this week to engage in three (3) different types of acts of kindness (i.e., conduct the acts of kindness on the same day). You may want to do a little planning (such as picking up treats or making cards in advance). Choose 3 people to receive the acts of kindness (One act of kindness each. For example, Person A – Kindness 1, Person B – Kindness 2, Person C – Kindness 3.) At the end of the day, take a moment to reflect and to write down – What were your personal feelings while doing the acts of kindness? As the day progressed and you completed each task what did you experience? What connections to course lessons to date come to mind as you reflect upon the day’s experience?
For TWO days this week, try one of the humor interventions (“three funny things”; collecting funny things; counting funny things; applying humorous activities in a specified time frame; or solving stressful situations in a humorous way) OR one of the optimism interventions (inducing a positive mindset; visualizing your “best self”; or writing about positive experiences). Describe your experiences from these interventions.
Positive Psychology in the Workplace (Luthans & Frey, 2017)
This reading approaches the topic of positive psychology applications within organizational settings.
Positive Psychology Interventions (Smirnova & Parks, 2017)
This informative reading introduces us to a collection of positive psychological interventions (PPI) applied within clinical settings.
PDF – Positive Psychology in Clinical Practice (Duckworth et al., 2005)
Duckworth et al. (2005) discusses positive psychology’s aim to broaden the focus of clinical psychology beyond suffering and its direct alleviation. It presents a conceptual framework that parses happiness into three domains: pleasure, engagement, and meaning. Empirical support for framework is given in the reading.
Positive Psychology Progress: Empirical Validation of Interventions (Seligman et al., 2005)
Seligman et al. (2005) discusses character strengths and virtues and presents cross-cultural findings that suggest a surprising ubiquity of strengths and virtues.
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