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	4.5 stars Average User Rating 4.5See 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

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 ...

5 videos, 2 readings, 2 practice quizzes

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

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

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

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Ratings and Reviews

Rated 4.5 out of 5 of 15 ratings

Great course! Peterson's master work is mind blowing!

It was a good practice to learn how to apply positive psychology to real life.

An outstanding wrap up to this specialization.

This entire course was EXCELLENT! I definitely increased my knowledge and I'm already applying what I've learned here in my work as psychotherapist and counselor. Thanks for the initiative and dedication tprofessionals involved, and to all my colleagues.

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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