Positive Psychology and Well-Being
4
2020-2021
01741038
Psychology
Portuguese
Face-to-face
4.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
All previous subjects and good domain of the language.
Teaching Methods
Dynamic teaching methods with theory and practice, lectures , followed by students’ group reflection, supported by learning material indicated or given by the teacher. Analysis and discussion of texts and practical situations are examples of other methods used.
Learning Outcomes
This curricular unit promotes a reflection about the conceptual and practical knowledge necessary to understand optimal human functioning. There is a focus on issues related to the lifelong personal and interpersonal development, highlighting the many facets of human behavior (from the emotional, social vocational, educational, health and organizational points of view), as well as the main paradigms that preceded it in the counseling domain.
This curricular unit has the main following pedagogical goals:
- To understand the new epistemological paradigm of Positive Psychology.
- To know and understand the historical roots of the positive approach in Psychology and its developments.
- To articulate the concepts of mental health/illness and of well-being.
- To master the applications of positive psychology in the educational, social and health dimensions.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
1. Introduction to Positive Psychology (and Well Being): a brief overview.
2. Historical roots
2.1 Psychological roots (the humanistic school)
2.2 Philosophical roots (from ancient Greece to the present)
3. Positive Psychology and Well Being: characterization.
3.1 The study of positive emotions
3.2 The study of positive traits
3.3 The study of positive institutions
4. Positive Psychology: Current state and future perspectives
5. Multidimensionality in research and intervention
6. Positive Psychology and Well Being: relations and interactions in the understanding of happiness.
7. Evolutionary and neuropsychological perspectives of happiness
8. Positive counselling and psychotherapy
9. Positive health
10. Positive childhood
11. Positive aging
12. Positive organizations and institutions
13. Positive psychological assessment
14. Research methods in Positive Psychology
15. Positive Psychology: from every day to specialized intervention
Head Lecturer(s)
Joaquim Armando Gomes Alves Ferreira
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Project: 10.0%
Synthesis work: 90.0%
Bibliography
Gardner, H., Csikszentmihalyi, M, & Damon, W. (2002). Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet. New York: Basic Books.
Joseph, S. (2015). Positive Psychology in Practice: Promoting Human Flourishing in Work, Health, Education, and Everyday Life. Hoboken, NJ.: John Wiley & Sons.
Pearsall, P. (2003). The Beethoven factor: The new positive psychology of hardiness, happiness, healing and hope. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads.
Peterson, C., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2004). Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification. Washington, D.C.: APA Press and Oxford University Press.
Seligman, M. E. P. (1990). Learned optimism: How to change your mind and your life. New York: Pocket Books.
Snyder, C. R., & Lopez, S. J. (Eds.) (2002). Handbook of positive psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
A restante bibliografia será indicada nos sumários/The remaining reference list will be provided in the summaries of each class.