About this course: You are encouraged to take the first four courses of the Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization before starting this course and completing the Specialization Project. This course, taught by Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman brings all the key concepts from the first four courses to practice as you develop and test a new positive intervention for an audience of your choice. You identify opportunities in your daily life to increase the wellbeing by using knowledge you developed in the first four courses of the Specialization. In this final project, you evaluate the efficacy of a positive intervention based on subjective and objective measures. Then, you compare how empirical and non-empirically-based positive interventions can be applied to influence a person's wellbeing. Lastly, you reflect on how the fundamental elements of research methods are important in the everyday application of positive psychology. After completing all five courses, learners earn a certificate signed by Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman, Dr. James Pawelski, Dr. Angela Duckworth, Dr. Claire Robertson-Kraft and Dr. Karen Reivich.

Who is this class for: This is the culminating course of the Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization. Students are strongly encouraged to complete the first four courses of the Specialization before starting this course and the Specialization Project.

Created by: University of Pennsylvania

Taught by: Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D., Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology & Director, Positive Psychology Center
Positive Psychology Center

Basic Info	Course 5 of 5 in the Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization
Commitment	4 weeks of study, 2-5 hours per week.
Language	English
How To Pass	Pass all graded assignments to complete the course.
User Ratings	4.8 stars Average User Rating 4.8See what learners said

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Character Strengths: One Concept to Rule them All

Module 1 of the Positive Psychology Capstone reviews the VIA Character Strengths Classification and in particular asks the learner to identify his or her five signature strengths and assess if they are authentic.

9 videos, 2 readings, 2 practice quizzes

Video: 1.1 Course Overview
Video: 1.2 Module 1 Overview
Leyendo: Chris Peterson: What makes life worth living
Video: 1.3 Assignment: Taking the VIA or reviewing your results
Video: 1.4 Interview: Paul Rozin on Character Strengths
Video: 1.5 James Pawelski's Review of Via Character Strengths
Leyendo: The World Well-Being Project
Video: 1.6 Signature Strengths
Cuestionario de práctica: Practice Quiz 1
Video: 1.7 Disappointment in your Signature Strength
Video: 1.8 Does the strength seem to fit you?
Video: 1.9 How can you tell if the strength is authentically you?
Cuestionario de práctica: Character Strengths

Graded: Character strengths. Who are you at your best? Do your signature strengths seem genuinely you?

WEEK 2

Peterson Theory on Psychological Mental Illness as defined as an Excess, an Absence, or an Opposite of a Character Strength rather than by the Presence or Absence of a Symptom in the DSM

Module 2 presents Chris Peterson's unfinished theory on mental illness. Specifically his belief that the absence of strengths, the excess of strengths, and the opposite of strengths might define 72 conditions of character weakness, and that these shortcomings might be a better framework than the DSM which uses a checklist of symptoms.

5 videos, 2 readings, 2 practice quizzes

Video: 2.1 Module 2 Overview
Video: 2.2 Peterson’s Theory
Leyendo: Chris Peterson’s Unfinished Masterwork: The Real Mental Illnesses
Video: 2.3 Assessment of Peterson’s 24 Absence and Opposite of Strengths
Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Definitions
Cuestionario de práctica: Practice Quiz
Video: 2.5 Contrasting Strengths Versus DSM
Video: 2.6 Using Character Strength in a Challenge
Leyendo: Which Character Strengths are most Predictive of Well-Being?
Cuestionario de práctica: Excess, Absence, and Opposite in Character Strengths

Graded: 72 deviations from strength. Can you spot your own deviance?

WEEK 3

Developing a Positive Intervention using a signature strength to bolster a strength absence or strength opposite. Hypothesis & Experiment Design for Personal Positive Intervention

Module 3 has the learner target an area for remediation from among Peterson's inventory of 72 deviant strengths and craft a positive intervention using a signature strength.

5 videos, 2 readings, 2 practice quizzes

Video: 3.1 Module 3 Overview
Leyendo: Articles on Research Methods
Video: 3.2 Interview: Picking what works best for you from strengths banquet
Cuestionario de práctica: Practice quiz on research methods and picking from strengths
Video: 3.3 Deliberate Practice
Video: 3.4 Laying the Foundation: Defining Measurement and Testing Happiness and Flourishing
Leyendo: PERMA overview Well-Being Theory
Video: 3.5 What is a Positive Intervention?
Cuestionario de práctica: PERMA, Positive Interventions, Research Methods

Graded: Designing your Positive Intervention

WEEK 4

Putting the Positive Intervention into Action

Module 4 has the learner put the positive intervention into action, assess and the share the results, and finally reduce the positive intervention to writing so it can be shared.

8 videos, 2 practice quizzes

Video: 4.1 Module 4 Overview
Video: 4.2 Trying the Positive Intervention
Video: 4.3 Aristotelian Balance
Cuestionario de práctica: Practice quiz on Positive Interventions
Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Using the Peterson strength Excess, strength Absence, and strength Opposite categories
Video: 4.4 Interview: Using Strengths
Video: 4.5 Using Signature Strengths Instead of Weakness
Video: 4.6 Using Signature Strengths over time to Increase Happiness
Video: 4.7 Assignment: Retaking the PERMA and the PANAS assessment
Cuestionario de práctica: Positive Interventions, Strengths
Video: 4.8 Closing Thoughts

Graded: Assessing the Positive Intervention and the post intervention assessment.

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How It Works

Trabajo del curso

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Conéctate con miles de estudiantes y debate ideas y materiales del curso, y obtén ayuda para dominar los conceptos.

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Creators

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn) is a private university, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. A member of the Ivy League, Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and considers itself to be the first university in the United States with both undergraduate and graduate studies.

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Ratings and Reviews

Rated 4.8 out of 5 of 56 ratings

By far the best and most practical course I have ever taken. The study of PP is so relevant to the times that we live that it can make a difference to your own life and lives that you can touch by accentuating the positive

Helpful and life-giving course and information!

I truly want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I've been interested in Positive Psychology . Writing English was little hard for me because I can reading English but I'm not accustomed to writing.

I've been learning English mostly by myself . So it was hard for me,but taking these courses were very fulfilling. I'd like to take an entrance exam for working people a University of Foreign Studies after the few months or next year.

Very good!!!

Positive Psychology Specialization Project: Design Your Life for Well-being

Positive Psychology Specialization Project: Design Your Life for Well-being

Positive Psychology Specialization Project: Design Your Life for Well-being