Activities for Teaching Positive Psychology: A Guide for Instructors PDF

Rating: (5 reviews) Author: Jeffrey J. Froh ISBN : 9781433812361 New from $23.55 Format: PDF

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Jeffrey J. Froh, PsyD, is an associate professor of psychology at Hofstra University and a leading scholar in positive youth psychology. His research, which has been featured in mainstream media such as The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, focuses on the wellsprings, assessment, outcomes, and enhancement of gratitude in children and adolescents. He is past associate editor for the Journal of Positive Psychology, and his research has been funded by the John Templeton Foundation.

Acacia C. Parks, PhD, is an assistant professor of psychology at Hiram College. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked under Martin Seligman at the Positive Psychology Center. Her research focuses on the efficacy of positive interventions and the psychological and behavioral characteristics of individuals who use them. She serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Positive Psychology and was recently guest editor of the special issue Positive Psychology in Higher Education. She is also editor of a forthcoming handbook of positive psychological interventions from Wiley-Blackwell. Parks is an active teacher of positive psychology and critical writing.

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• Paperback: 173 pages
• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA); 1 edition (December 1, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1433812363
• ISBN-13: 978-1433812361
• Product Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.5 x 10.8 inches
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Activities for Teaching Positive Psychology: A Guide for Instructors PDF

This book was a lifesaver for me. I use a pedagogy called team-based learning in which students are assigned permanent teams at the beginning of the semester and do most of their learning through team activities. I do little lecturing; most classroom time is activity-based. That being said, developing interesting, creative, and thought-provoking activities is not my strength. "Activities for teaching positive psychology" was released a few weeks before my spring 2103 Positive Psychology course, and I used at least one activity from the book each week. A weekly three hour session is a lot of time to fill with activities; yet students said that time flew by because they were always doing something interesting (I should note that there were 48 students in the class). By the end of the course I had tried 13 of the 25 activities in the book. Some of them needed to be modified for use as team activities; I used others as written. Some of them worked extremely well, others didn’t, but even those that didn’t work as planned still generated worthwhile discussions. For example, the “Heart rate variation with positive psychology exercises” activity didn’t generate a change in average heart rate as a result of the different stimuli I presented, which was disappointing. But the class had a great discussion about why the activity might not have worked, providing them the opportunity to make connections to what they knew about research methodology. Most activities were quite successful. Students completed “The savoring expedition: An exercise to cultivate savoring” and wrote about their experience in a journal entry. I was impressed by the seriousness with which they approached this activity and how much they learned through doing it.