Identify the four primary aims of applied positive psychology.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: The first is to ameliorate and improve individual and/or social disorder by fostering prevention strategies. The second is to help professional practitioners become more oriented toward health and well-being (as opposed to problems and pathology) by training them to systematically build upon existing strengths. Third, he hopes to decrease the “promiscuous victimology” that has emerged in the social sciences (and related helping professions) as a result of the ideologies of passivity and pathology evident in disease and problem-focused models. Finally, the fourth aim of positive psychology is to move beyond the “egocentric” to the “philanthropic.”
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