AHSC 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Vehicle Frame, Positive Psychology
7 Jan 2017
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With the advent of the veterans administration and the national institute of mental. Health, psychology became a healing discipline based upon a disease model and illness ideology. Seligman wanted to initiate a shift in psychology towards positive psychology. The goal of positive psychology is to pioneer a shift in the focus on psychology from preoccupation with repairing what is damaged to an inclusion of building upon what is good. The focus of psychology should also aim at understanding and studying strength and virtue. Recognized and built upon the structural forces that shaped the discipline of psychology. Positive psychology is a holistic and integrated body of knowledge. Its goal is to consolidate and celebrate what makes life worth living, and to discover the areas we need to improve on. Aimed to utilize scientific research and scholarship to reorient psychological science and practice towards human strength. It would focus on what makes life worth living.
