Scientific Advances in Positive Psychology by Meg A. Warren,Meg Warren,Stewart Donaldson

By Meg A. Warren,Meg Warren,Stewart Donaldson

This publication examines the diversity of recent theories, examine, and functions within the such a lot generative components of optimistic psychology, on the sunrise of a brand new wave of optimistic psychology scholarship—one that's more and more delicate to real-world matters, adversity, tradition, and context.

• bargains an exceptional exam of the main generative matters in optimistic psychology

• presents a scientifically grounded, thorough, and obtainable evaluation of optimistic psychology idea, learn, and practice

• Showcases a brand new wave of confident psychology that's mainstreaming elevated sensitivity to adversity, tradition, and contextual factors

• Brings jointly contributions from popular leaders and prolific thinkers in confident psychology

• provides state of the art info that would be important to students, scholars, in addition to basic readers

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