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Positive Psychology [1]

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.      
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 Edu

3. Seligman, M., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2000) : Positive Psychology: An Introduction. American Psychologists. 

Academic Year: 
2014-15 [2]

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