A bestselling self-help author suggests a plan based on "positive psychology," which uses the positive qualities that one already possesses to help overcome difficulty and achieve happiness.
People everywhere are looking for a reason to believe--in themselves, in their world--and Learned Optimism offered enough answers to vault it onto bestseller lists everywhere. An even larger audience of pessimists who need to change their lives awaits this trade paperback edition.
Martin E.P. Seligman is a noted psychologist who has observed that 30% of American children suffer from depression. "The Optimistic Child" offers parents a plan for preventing depression in children, based on self-evaluation and social interaction, that will instill them with optimistic attitudes and high self-esteem.
In the climate of self-improvement that has reigned for the last 20 years, misinformation has flourished. Grounded in the most recent and authoritative studies, this book pinpoints the techniques and therapies that work best for conditions in virtually every area of self-improvement, explains why they work, and shows how anyone can use them to ...
What is crucial to a happy successful life, according to the author of this groundbreaking book, is what we say to ourselves when we experience failures and disappointments that inevitably come to even the most fortunate men and women. How we explain out setbacks to ourselves can make the difference between overcoming defeat and succumbing to it, ...
This groundbreaking handbook of human strengths and virtues is the first progress report from a prestigious group of researchers in the Values in Action Classification Project, which has undertaken a systematic classification and measurement of universal strengths and virtues. This landmark work makes possible for the first time a science of human ...
Martin E.P. Seligman is a noted psychologist who has observed that 30% of American children suffer from depression. "The Optimistic Child" offers parents a plan for preventing depression in children, based on self-evaluation and social interaction, that will instill them with optimistic attitudes and high self-esteem.
This volume demonstrates how learned helplessness develops and operates, and how it can lead to depression, anxiety, childhood failures, lack of motivation, and in extreme cases, sudden death. This is no "cure yourself" guide, but the theory Dr. Seligman presents does should offer hope, suggesting that depressed adults and children can "unlearn" ...
Martin E.P. Seligman is a noted psychologist who has observed that 30% of American children suffer from depression. "The Optimistic Child" offers parents a plan for preventing depression in children, based on self-evaluation and social interaction, that will instill them with optimistic attitudes and high self-esteem.
Psychology has made great strides in understanding mental illness, but how much has it learned about mental health? When people want to reflect upon the good life and how to live it, they turn to philosophers and novelists, not psychologists. The emerging field of positive psychology aims to redress this imbalance. In Flourishing, distinguished ...
The psychological syndrome of learned helplessness is a uniquely modern phenomenon, and has been applied to a variety of human problems such as inappropriate passivity or demoralization. The best-known application of learned helplessness has been an explanation of depression, although numerous other extensions have been made, most recently to ...
When experience with uncontrollable events gives rise to the expectation that events in the future will also elude control, disruption in motivation, emotion and learning may ensue. "Learned helplessness" refers to the problems that follow in the wake of uncontrollability. The present volume summarizes and integrates work on learned helplessness: ...
In this text, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists and historians examine over a dozen international cases to understand what causes a society's ethnic conflicts to either escalate or de-escalate. They highlight the role of group identification in the escalation of ethnic conflict.
This text provides an understanding of explanatory style, which is one's tendency to offer similar sorts of explanations for different events - a cognitive variable which has been related to psychopathology, physical health, achievement and success.
La nueva Psicologia Positiva revoluciona el concepto de felicidad y senala el camino para conseguirla.El doctor Martin Seligman, el investigador de la psique humana que hace una decada creo el concepto de "optimismo aprendido," presenta ahora una nueva y revolucionaria corriente cientifica, la Psicologia Positiva.En lugar de centrarse, como la ...
This is a thorough and up-to-date guide to putting positive psychology into practice. From the Foreword: 'This volume is the cutting edge of positive psychology and the emblem of its future' - Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D., Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, and author of "Authentic Happiness". Positive psychology ...
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