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Edited by Lisa G. Aspinwall, PhD and Ursula M. Staudinger, PhD
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LIST PRICE: $49.95
MEMBER/AFFILIATE PRICE: $39.95
369 pages
ITEM #: 431685A
ISBN: 1-55798-931-1
ISBN 13: 978-1-55798-931-4
PUBLICATION DATE: November 2002
EDITION: Hardcover
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In A Psychology of Human Strengths: Fundamental Questions and Future Directions for a Positive Psychology, leading scholars of contemporary psychology set a research agenda for the scientific study of human strengths. The book features contributors who bring both supportive and challenging voices to this emerging field to stimulate discourse. In many cases, their findings have turned "established wisdom" on its head. What results is a comprehensive volume that provides a forward-looking forum for the discussion of the purpose, pitfalls, and future of the psychology of human strengths.
This volume offers commentary on positive psychology and its antecedents. It is a must-read for those looking for new ways of thinking about such topics as intelligence, judgment, volition, social behavior, close relationships, development, aging, and health as well as applications to psychotherapy, education, organizational psychology, gender, politics, creativity, and other realms of life.
Book Review
Although positive psychology only recently reached its five-year mark, the study of psychological factors that "make life worth living" is flourishing. This tightly edited book tackles human strengths, the qualities and processes that promote well-being and health while preventing pathology. The editors invited leading researchers to explore the role strengths play in a variety of topics, including personality, aging, sex differences, close relationships, intelligence, creativity, judgment, affect…This excellent, 23-chapter moveable feast of theory and data is by no means a united front; constructive criticism of the young discipline's possible directions and problems are offered alongside more embracing perspectives. Summing up: Essential.
—CHOICE Magazine
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