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.
Positive Psychology Specialization Project: Design Your Life for Well-being
This course is part of Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization
Instructor: Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D.
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Identify your five signature strengths
Describe the character strengths that promote well-being
Craft a positive intervention using a signature strength
Share your work by writing a post-intervention assessment
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There are 4 modules in this course
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.
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9 videos1 reading2 assignments1 peer review
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.
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5 videos2 readings2 assignments1 peer review1 discussion prompt
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.
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5 videos2 readings2 assignments1 peer review
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.
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Reviewed on Oct 5, 2021
Great integration module. I would give a 5/5 if there had been more explicit alignment between the assignment descriptors and the rubric.
Reviewed on Jun 13, 2020
A great introductory course in the science of Positive Psychology that sets a solid foundation for exploring the field further.
Reviewed on Nov 4, 2018
Taking this course will help you understand your emotions such as happiness and hope, and how to apply this understanding to improve quality of life.
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