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Positive Psychology and Relational Connectedness
Published in Michelle Tollefson, Nancy Eriksen, Neha Pathak, Improving Women's Health Across the Lifespan, 2021
Medical practitioners can briefly assess patients’ levels of flourishing with brief measures, such as the Satisfaction with Life Scale, and monitor the status of this health element, as positive activities and healthy lifestyles are being adopted.
Prosocial Practices, Positive Identity, and Flourishing at Work
Published in Cary L. Cooper, Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Work, 2020
Jane E. Dutton, Laura Morgan Roberts, Jeff Bednar
This trio of studies provides suggestive evidence that organizational practices can shape how employees define themselves in ways that might pave the way for employee flourishing. The three studies we reviewed showed a pattern of how prosocial organizational practices cultivate more positive work-related identities. These prosocial practices—employee support, community outreach, and beneficiary impact practices—promote thoughts and actions that influence two aspects of identity: identity content and identity evaluation.
Cry and response
Published in Anthony Korner, Communicative Exchange, Psychotherapy and the Resonant Self, 2020
Feeling gives a sense of the situation we are in. It is also accompanied by a need for expression. Human communication took another step as language became symbolic, coming to represent more than just the immediate situation. As it developed, language must have done so in concert with feeling. Humans have an evolutionary investment in language and communication involving emotional investment renewed in each life where our sense of who we are and who we become is so intimately tied up with how we communicate both to ourselves and others. Born immature, we are shaped by the communicative environment. It provides pathways for the growth of relationships and skill acquisition. Human flourishing occurs through the relationships and communication that give our lives meaning. On the other hand, traumatic experience disrupts our ongoing sense of existence and bodily functioning. Trauma requires healing. For psychotherapy, a compassionate exchange of feeling through conversation is the vehicle for personal growth, healing and recovery.
Transformative experiences at art museums to support flourishing in medicine
Published in Medical Education Online, 2023
Sean Tackett, Lauren Eller, Samuel Scharff, Kamna S. Balhara, Kaitlin M. Stouffer, Melissa Suchanek, Sarah L. Clever, Philip Yenawine, Suzy Wolffe, Margaret S. Chisolm
The alignment between modern concepts of health, professional identity formation, and the notion of flourishing may justify incorporating flourishing into medical curricula. Evidence also suggests that flourishing is linked to well-being in medical learners [6,7]. Supporting student flourishing may be especially important at a time when well-being is likely to be waning during clinical years. This time also serves as a major threshold in the formation of a physician and most US medical schools offer curricula to support this transition [8]. However, the majority of the content in these courses focuses on development of technical knowledge and skills, such as working with the electronic health record, performing clinical procedures, and managing common diseases [9]. Human flourishing tends not to be addressed at all in most of these courses [8].
Flourishing or physical activity?: Identifying temporal precedence in supporting the transition to university
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2023
Roxy Helliker O’Rourke, Isabelle Doré, Benjamin D. Sylvester, Catherine M. Sabiston
Flourishing is an index of positive mental health (hereafter mental health) that refers to functioning optimally and feeling good.5,6 The core features of flourishing include positive emotions, engagement, interest, meaning, and purpose.6 Flourishing has been used as an indicator of positive mental health and well-being. Flourishing is also operationalized as one component of the broader positive mental health construct that is also defined by components such as environmental mastery and self-acceptance.7 Flourishing is associated with experiencing more positive emotions and better psychological well-being,6 greater life satisfaction, and recovery from personal challenges.8 However, university students are at risk of reporting low levels of flourishing9,10 and, therefore, understanding ways to enhance flourishing within first-year university students is important.
Light at the end of the bottle: flourishing in people recovering from alcohol problems
Published in Journal of Substance Use, 2022
Paul Makin, Rosie Allen, Jerome Carson, Stacey Bush, Bethany Merrifield
Flourishing mental health is the epitome of mental well-being and encompasses the presence of psychological, emotional and social components of functioning (Seligman, 2011). Flourishing can be defined as “the experience of life going well and a combination of feeling good and functioning effectively” (Huppert & So, 2013). Seligman (2011) proposed a theoretical model of happiness (PERMA) that consists of positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning and achievement. According to Seligman (2011), these five core elements of flourishing guide people toward a life of fulfillment, happiness and meaning. Research has shown that flourishing can act as a buffer to mental health problems such as depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation (Keyes & Simoes, 2012; Schotanus-Dijkstra et al., 2017). Flourishing has been associated with an array of personal, psychological and social benefits (Keyes, 2005; Ross et al., 2013). For example, people who are flourishing are less likely to use substances such as tobacco and alcohol, and are increasingly likely to participate in regular physical activity (Keyes & Simoes, 2012). Recent studies have found that only a modest proportion of the population are considered to be flourishing (Middleton, 2016). One group of individuals who struggle to demonstrate flourishing mental health are those who have problems of alcohol dependency (Keyes, 2015).