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Positive Psychology
Paper Code:
PSY 144 (A)
Credits:
04
Contact Hours:
60.00
Max. Marks:
100.00
12.00
Unit I:
Introductory and Historical Overview and Positive Psychology
Definition, Assumptions, goals, relationships with other branches of psychology; Positive Prevention; positive therapy.
12.00
Unit II:
Emotion Focused Approaches
- Subjective well being : Happiness, Positive Emotions, life satisfaction
- Resilience : Perspectives, Sources, Growth through trauma
- Emotional Intelligence – History of concept, current model of EQ, Measuring EQ, Interventions to improve EQ.
12.00
Unit III:
Cognitive Focused Approaches
- Optimism : Expectancy Value Models of Motivation; optimism and subjective well being; optimism, pessimism and coping, hope theory, optimistic Explanatory style.
- Creativity : History, measurement approaches, theoretical issues, practical applications.
- Problems solving appraisal : History of applied problem solving, measuring problem solving appraisal, issues related to problem solving appraisal, Problem Solving Training intervention
- Personal goals as windows to well being : Definition, goals and related motivational concepts, measuring personal goals, personal goals and well being, materialism and its discontents.
12.00
Unit IV:
Self based Approaches
- Self regulations and self control : Introduction, theories – control theory, self discrepancy theory, personal goals and self –regulation, everyday explanations for self control failure, Good disengagement.
- Reality Negotiation – definition, individual differences in reality negotiations, types of reality negotiation strategies, reality negotiations as coping, reality negotiations and social support, reality negotiations and professional accountability.
- Authenticity – History, development, emergence of an interest in authenticity during adolescence, developmental precursors of authenticity, correlations and consequences of authenticity, authenticity and adult relationship.
12.00
Unit V:
Interpersonal Approaches
- Relationship connection : Role of minding in enhancement of connection, minding model, mending theory, (adaptive and non adaptive steps).
- Psychology of forgiveness : Definition, measures of forgiveness, studies on forgiveness, mental health and well being, interventions to develop forgiveness.
- Empathy and altruism – Empathic emotions and altruism, Empathy hypothesis, other sources of altruistic motivation, collectivism and principalism as prosocial motives, theoretical implications of Empathy – Altruism relationship.
References:
1. Snyder, J.L. Shane (2005). Handbook of Positive Psychology, Oxford University Press.
2. R.B. Steve, M.K. Gothers (2002). Positive Psychology, New Delhi: Person Education.
3. Seligman, M., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2000) : Positive Psychology: An Introduction. American Psychologists.
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