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Positive Psychology And Its Application Of Educational Practice

Posted on:2007-06-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R M QianFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360182988998Subject:Development and educational psychology
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Positive psychology is a trend of studying human strength and virtue by making good use of the perfect effective experimental ways and measurements. It can be dated back to the study of the genius and the happiness of marriage by Terman and the study of the meaning of life by Carl GustavJung in 1930s. The comprehensive thinking trend of treating human being as the foundation raised by Maslow and Rogers from 1950s and the movement of developing the potential of human that is aroused by it has established a good foundation for the rise of the modern positive psychology.Now in western counties the study focuses on such fields as positive emotion and experience, positive personality, the effect of positive psychological progress on health and the foster of the genius.Positive psychological treatment is a kind of treatment with the guidance of the theory of positive psychology and it is a kind of pattern of combination of all kinds of theories and technologies. The system of positive psychological treatment is a combination of mental analysis, action treatment and the treatment centered on human being.The value of positive psychological treatment lies in the critically inheritance and the application of it to the branch of traditional psychological study such as clinical psychology, consultant psychology, social psychology, personality psychology and health psychology, which can focus on the positive sides of human being .There are two direction for positive psychology: one is to broaden the fields of it, the other is to develop the study technology of it.This article summarizes the positive psychology and positive psychological treatment and makes an effort to study the application of it to educational practice .Ideas of positive personality and the development of creativity are key to guidance to the development of children's potential. The theory of broadening and establishing is very useful to the foster of the children positive emotions. Positive psychology is also useful to broaden the fields of psychological assistance to the young people in their adolescence, which benefits us with positive things just like the treatment with traditional Chinese medicine with more effects in permanent cure than temporary relief. The application of positive psychology has positive effects on the foster of creativity, positive moral personality and the establishment of positive educational environment, which broadens the channels of political education and psychological education. It is sure that there is great room for positive psychology to develop in the future.
Keywords/Search Tags:Positive psychology, educational practice, application
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