Positive Psychology: Between Theory and Practice

Abstract

The current research aims to introduce positive psychology, its role, fields, and goals. By reviewing what was written about this science, the following became clear:

Positive psychology is considered the gateway or entrance through which balance can be achieved and the psychological path corrected. It is a developmental approach to virtues and abilities, a preventive approach against disease, and a therapeutic approach at the same time. Among its names are positive psychology, the science of happiness, the science of human strengths, and the science of human power.

It is a modern trend that studies subjective experience, positive feelings, positive traits, meaningful life, and positive emotions, and works at the individual and group levels in the past, present, and future.

Positive psychology provides a list of positive indicators of mental health, represented by two axes, the first of which is measuring emotional vitality, and the second is measuring positive functional activity. The two axes constitute the opposite side of the clinical list of diseases.

Positive psychologists emphasize that a person's use of his positive characteristics, abilities, talents, and virtues achieves a happy life or a good life. This science aims to achieve a psychological balance between the positive model and the pathological model in practice and application, and to direct attention and study towards psychological flexibility and quality of life instead of preoccupation with illness, its factors and causes.