Towards Flourishing

ebook Contextualising Positive Psychology

By Marie Wissing

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A unique South African textbook on positive psychology which attempts to find scientific answers to and explore the assumptions behind questions such as the following: how do we live the good life? How do we care? What is a life well-lived? What is happiness and what is a meaningful life? Is it possible to thrive and flourish in life with all its brokenness, challenges and pain? Aimed at undergraduate students at universities, colleges and other tertiary institutions where positive psychology forms part of the curriculum.Contents include the following:

  • Feeling good and functioning well and its benefits
  • Harmonising hedonic and eudaimonic perspectives on well-being
  • Bio-psychosocial facets of well-being
  • Theories on character strengths, resilience, hope, meaning, self-determination and more
  • Positive relations, societies and institutions
  • Well-being and global trends, differences and comparisons
  • Activities to enhance well-being
  • Towards Flourishing