Ms. White

Week 1 Check point: Description of the central themes and strategies of positive psychology as you understand them from your reading.
If I understand this correctly form our readings the central themes and strategies of positive psychology look at the importance of building positive qualities in people. This is meant to help people explore and focus on their strengths and values and use different proposed perspectives to help that person understand positive emotions, positive characteristics, and positive foundation that humans need to flourish and have a sense of well being. Positive psychology focuses on individual’s positive traits, such as perseverance, courage, spirituality, and love as well as the individual’s contentment with their past, and finding foreseeable future with happiness and optimism. Positive psychology acknowledges that we are not just along for the ride in our personal and social world, and that we are active participants also. There are external factors as well, such as biology factor and environmental factors that mold our behaviors. Positive psychology teaches us that we have the freedom to choose decisions that will cause specific changes in our behaviors and our environment that will create a sense of control over our own lives. Positive psychology builds on an individual’s strengths so that we may flourish as a human being or individual. Positive psychology uses several scales to measure the strengths of an individual. These scales are used to point out an individual’s strengths so that person and their therapist can build on them. Positive psychology also tries to reveal factors which have led to an individual’s issues but tries to sustain the positive factors in that individual’s life and help strengthen