🔑 Key Themes of Positive Psychology
Science of Well-Being: Empirical study of what makes life worth living 🔬
Strengths-Based: Focus on building what's right, not just fixing what's wrong 💪
Balance: Both positive AND negative have their place ⚖️
Strengths-Based: Focus on building what's right, not just fixing what's wrong 💪
Balance: Both positive AND negative have their place ⚖️
👤 Key Theorists Review
- Seligman - Founder, PERMA, learned helplessness 🌟
- Csikszentmihalyi - Flow 🌊
- Peterson & Seligman - VIA Character Strengths 💪
- Fredrickson - Broaden-and-Build 🌸
- Snyder - Hope Theory 🌈
- Duckworth - Grit 💪
📊 Major Models Review
- PERMA - 5 pillars of well-being 🌟
- Broaden-and-Build - Positive emotions expand resources 🌸
- Flow Channel - Balance challenge and skill 🌊
- HERO - Psychological Capital 🦸
- REACH - Forgiveness model 🤝
📋 Key Measures Review
- VIA-IS - Character strengths 💪
- SWLS - Life satisfaction 😊
- PANAS - Positive/Negative Affect 📊
- GQ-6 - Gratitude 🙏
- MAAS - Mindfulness 🧘
- HS/SHS - Hope 🌈
🛠️ Key Interventions
- Three Good Things 3️⃣
- Gratitude Letter 💌
- Signature Strengths 💪
- Acts of Kindness 🤲
- Mindfulness 🧘
💡 Final Exam Tips
- KNOW YOUR THEORISTS and their key contributions 👤
- Know acronyms: PERMA, HERO, REACH, VIA 📋
- Understand interventions and their effects 🛠️
- Second Wave = integration, not rejection ☯️
- Positive Psychology is SCIENTIFIC 🔬