Working with LGBT individuals: Incorporating positive psychology into training and practice.

Integrating Positive Psychology into Schools: Implications for Practice

Traditional approaches for working with children and families in the schools focus on problems and disturbance. The concept of positive psychology as a way to change this focus is offered through exploration of its integration within school psychology. Specifically, the application of positive psychology can form the basis of preventive practices within the school setting. Examples of this appl...

Positive psychology in clinical practice.

Positive psychology is the scientific study of positive experiences and positive individual traits, and the institutions that facilitate their development. A field concerned with well-being and optimal functioning, positive psychology aims to broaden the focus of clinical psychology beyond suffering and its direct alleviation. Our proposed conceptual framework parses happiness into three domain...

An Approach to Incorporating Psychology into Economics ∗

This article proposes an approach to improving the psychological realism of economics while maintaining its conventional techniques and goals: formal theoretical and empirical analysis using tractable models, with a focus on prediction and estimation. These techniques have proven valuable for studying the behavioral and welfare implications of economic phenomena—oil shocks, higher education, jo...

Incorporating smartphones into clinical practice

With the widespread adoption of smartphones over the past decade, there has been increasing scrutiny over their role in medicine. Although health care providers and patients have long used mobile phones, these devices were initially limited technologically to basic voice transmission. Nowadays, even the most inexpensive models combine traditional functionality with powerful computing capability...

Liberating Psychotherapy: Liberation Psychology and Psychotherapy with LGBT Clients