To discover and promote the factors that allow individuals and communities to thrive (Sheldon et al, 2000)
To understand and encourage factors that allow individuals, communities and societies to flourish
To focus attention on the sources of psychological health, thereby going beyond prior emphases on disease and disorder
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Psychology should be
As concerned with strength as with weakness
As interested in building the best things in life as in repairing the worst
As concerned with making the lives of normal people fulfilling and with nurturing talent as with healing pathology
Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi
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Three types of happiness
Pleasant life (hedonic happiness)
Engaged (flow) life
Meaningful (eudaimonic) life - authentic happiness
Happiness= life satisfaction
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Three theories of flourishing
Mental health/Dual continua model - Keyes, 2002
Mental Health Spectrum - Huppert, 2009
Wellbeing Theory - PERMA - Seligman, 2011
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Dua Continua
Flourishing is mental health, where individuals thirve, prosper and fare well in endeavours - Keyes and Michalec
Absence of mental illness does not imply the presence of mental health
Assesses flourishing across 3 areas of mental health symptoms - Functional psychological wellbeing, functional social wellbeing, emotional wellbeing.
Individuals are flourishing if they score high on one of the 3 scales in emotional wellbeing, and have high levels on 6 of the 11 scales of positive functioning
Flourishing v languishing
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Mental Health Spectrum
Takes a population based approach to improving wellbeing
Defines flourishing as exhibition of 3 sets of core feature: Positive emotions, engagement and meaning
Plus 3 of 6 additional features: Self-esteem, optimism, resilience, vitality, self-determination and positive relationships
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