UPenn - Positive Psychology Specialization Project: Design Your Life for Well-being

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Positive Psychology Specialization Project: Design Your Life for Well-being
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Duration	13 hours
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Total fee	Free
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Credential	Certificate

Positive Psychology Specialization Project: Design Your Life for Well-being
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Highlights

Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
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Course 5 of 5 in the Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization
Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
Approx. 13 hours to complete
English Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish, Japanese

Positive Psychology Specialization Project: Design Your Life for Well-being
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Course details

Skills you will learn

Psychology Software Testing

More 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.

Positive Psychology Specialization Project: Design Your Life for Well-being
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Curriculum

Character Strengths: One Concept to Rule them All

1.1 Course Overview

1.2 Module 1 Overview

1.3 Assignment: Taking the VIA or reviewing your results

1.4 Interview: Paul Rozin on Character Strengths

1.5 James Pawelski's Review of Via Character Strengths

1.6 Signature Strengths

1.7 Disappointment in your Signature Strength

1.8 Does the strength seem to fit you?

1.9 How can you tell if the strength is authentically you?

Chris Peterson: What makes life worth living

Practice Quiz 1

Character Strengths

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

2.1 Module 2 Overview

2.2 Peterson?s Theory

2.3 Assessment of Peterson?s 24 Absence and Opposite of Strengths

2.5 Contrasting Strengths Versus DSM

2.6 Using Character Strength in a Challenge

Chris Peterson?s Unfinished Masterwork: The Real Mental Illnesses

Which Character Strengths are most Predictive of Well-Being?

Practice Quiz

Excess, Absence, and Opposite in Character Strengths

Developing a Positive Intervention using a signature strength to bolster a strength absence or strength opposite. Hypothesis & Experiment Design for Personal Positive Intervention

3.1 Module 3 Overview

3.2 Interview: Picking what works best for you from strengths banquet

3.3 Deliberate Practice

3.4 Laying the Foundation: Defining Measurement and Testing Happiness and Flourishing

3.5 What is a Positive Intervention?

Articles on Research Methods

PERMA overview Well-Being Theory

Practice quiz on research methods and picking from strengths

PERMA, Positive Interventions, Research Methods

Putting the Positive Intervention into Action

4.1 Module 4 Overview

4.2 Trying the Positive Intervention