Book Details
Orange Code:56758
Paperback:333 pages
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Sections:
1. The Healthy Personality2. Fostering Exceptional Development in Intellectually Talented Populations3. Individuality and Optimal Human Functioning: Interests, Self-Efficacy, and Personality4. Person-Environment Psychology and Well-Being5. Optimal Human Functioning From Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Cultural Competence as an Organizing Framework6. Optimal Human Functioning in People of Color in the United States7. Toward a Positive Psychotherapy: Focus on Human Strength8. Strength-Based Health Psychology: Counseling for Total Human Health9. Toward a Taxonomy of Human Strengths: Career Counseling’s Contribution to Positive Psychology10. Assessing Optimal Human Functioning11. Fostering Human Strength Through Diversity and Public Policy: A Counseling Psychologists’ Perspective12. Fulfilling Its Promise: Counseling Psychology’s Efforts to Understand and Promote Optimal Human Functioning
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Counseling psychologists have always been vitally involved in promoting good health and preventing mental, physical, and social disorders. This volume focuses on how their efforts can foster and build optimal human strength and well-being. The chapters show how counseling psychology plays a major role in helping people make changes at home, at work, and in the community in ways that prevent disease risk and strengthen personal and social resources.
Written by leading psychologists, the volume shifts away from pathology and illness and moves more toward the science of positive psychology. Five major themes--intact personalities, individual assets and strengths, positive mental health, person--environment interaction, and career development-are discussed. These serve to unite the roles and tasks of counseling psychology.
All students and professionals concerned with mental health and career counsiling with findCounseling Psychology and Optimal Human Functioning thought-provoking and helpful reading.
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