POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY INTERVENTIONS IN PRACTICE

1. Positive Psychology Interventions: The First Intervention Is Our Self
2. Flourish: A Strengths-Based Approach to Building Student Resilience
3. Active Ageing as Positive Intervention: Some Unintended Consequences
4. Fostering Humour
5. Well-Being and Well-Doing: Bringing Mindfulness and Character Strengths to the Early Childhood Classroom and Home
6. Applying Positive Psychology in the Primary School: Celebrating Strengths, a UK Well-Being Project
7. Transforming Our Schools Together: A Multi-School Collaboration to Implement Positive Education
8. Fostering Positive Changes in Health and Social Relationships in Children
9. Learning Healthy Relationships
10. Positive Psychology at Work: Research and Practice
11. Applying Positive Organisational Scholarship to Produce Extraordinary Performance
12. Positive Technologies for Improving Health and Well-Being
13. How Design Can (Not) Support Human Flourishing
14. How Can Positive Psychology Influence Public Policy and Practice?

This book presents recent advancements in positive psychology, specifically its application across broad areas of current interest. Chapters include submissions from various international authors in the field and cover discussion and presentation of relevant research, theories, and applications. The volume covers topics such as CBT, Psychotherapy, Coaching, Workplaces, Aging, Education, Leadership, Emotion, Interventions, Measurement, Technology, Design, Health, Relationships, Experiences, Communities. With the growing interest in the applications of positive psychology across diverse fields within psychology and beyond, this book will make a worthwhile contribution to the field. It will also fill the current need for a volume that highlights specifically the various recent advancements in positive psychology into diverse fields and as such will be of benefit to a wide range of professionals, including psychologists, educators, clinicians, therapists, and many others

Features
• The first volume to highlight recent advancements in positive psychology and its application into diverse fields
• Offers valuable information to a wide range of professionals and students in the social and behavioural sciences
• Covers discussion and presentation of relevant research, theories, and applications

Author
Carmel Laura Proctor completed a Certificate in Liberal Arts in 1996 and a BA in Psychology in 1998 at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada and an MA in Measurement Evaluation and Research Methodology in 2002 at the University of British Columbia, Canada. In 2011 she completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Leicester, UK. My research interests are primarily in the areas of positive psychology, applied positive psychology, values, character, personality, existential psychology, and well-being. In general, the main focus of her work has centered on adolescent and youth life satisfaction and well-being, specifically the application of positive psychological theory in the enhancement of these variables.