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. |
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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
- Video: 1.1 Course Overview
- Video: 1.2 Module 1 Overview
- Leyendo: Chris Peterson: What makes life worth living
- Video: 1.3 Assignment: Taking the VIA or reviewing your results
- Video: 1.4 Interview: Paul Rozin on Character Strengths
- Video: 1.5 James Pawelski's Review of Via Character Strengths
- Leyendo: The World Well-Being Project
- Video: 1.6 Signature Strengths
- Cuestionario de práctica: Practice Quiz 1
- Video: 1.7 Disappointment in your Signature Strength
- Video: 1.8 Does the strength seem to fit you?
- Video: 1.9 How can you tell if the strength is authentically you?
- Cuestionario de práctica: Character Strengths
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 might be a better framework than the DSM which uses a checklist of symptoms.
5 videos, 2 readings, 2 practice quizzes
- Video: 2.1 Module 2 Overview
- Video: 2.2 Peterson’s Theory
- Leyendo: Chris Peterson’s Unfinished Masterwork: The Real Mental Illnesses
- Video: 2.3 Assessment of Peterson’s 24 Absence and Opposite of Strengths
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Definitions
- Cuestionario de práctica: Practice Quiz
- Video: 2.5 Contrasting Strengths Versus DSM
- Video: 2.6 Using Character Strength in a Challenge
- Leyendo: Which Character Strengths are most Predictive of Well-Being?
- Cuestionario de práctica: Excess, Absence, and Opposite in Character Strengths
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
- Video: 3.1 Module 3 Overview
- Leyendo: Articles on Research Methods
- Video: 3.2 Interview: Picking what works best for you from strengths banquet
- Cuestionario de práctica: Practice quiz on research methods and picking from strengths
- Video: 3.3 Deliberate Practice
- Video: 3.4 Laying the Foundation: Defining Measurement and Testing Happiness and Flourishing
- Leyendo: PERMA overview Well-Being Theory
- Video: 3.5 What is a Positive Intervention?
- Cuestionario de práctica: PERMA, Positive Interventions, Research Methods
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
- Video: 4.1 Module 4 Overview
- Video: 4.2 Trying the Positive Intervention
- Video: 4.3 Aristotelian Balance
- Cuestionario de práctica: Practice quiz on Positive Interventions
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Using the Peterson strength Excess, strength Absence, and strength Opposite categories
- Video: 4.4 Interview: Using Strengths
- Video: 4.5 Using Signature Strengths Instead of Weakness
- Video: 4.6 Using Signature Strengths over time to Increase Happiness
- Video: 4.7 Assignment: Retaking the PERMA and the PANAS assessment
- Cuestionario de práctica: Positive Interventions, Strengths
- Video: 4.8 Closing Thoughts
Graded: Assessing the Positive Intervention and the post intervention assessment.
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Great learning opportunity. I loved all the courses in the Positive Psychology Specialization.
Excelente, claro y amable.
I loved this entire specialization. It changed my perspective on so many things. Loved it.
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added value to my life. we can find our happiness in many things, but i believe only one lasts.