PSYC 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Positive Psychology, Personality Disorder, Dsm-5
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What are the potential implications of suggesting that some personalities are abnormal or disordered. Labelling -> helpful in some settings but can be stigmatizing. Mental disorder normality/mental health character strengths and virtues; A complementary eld of psychology that moves beyond simply treating mental illness and dysfuntion. Positive psychologists seek to make normal life more ful lling and to nd and nurture genius and talent. Character strengths and virtues: organizes and classi es all the orders and behaviours of emotion, and cognition. (in contrast to the dsm-5: wisdom and knowledge: creatibity, curiosity, open-mindedness, love of learning, perspective, innovation, courage: bravery, persistence (see slide) Forgiveness correlated positively with cognitive exibility, positive affect, and distraction; it correlated negatively with rumination, vengeance and hostility. The intentionally focused awareness of one" immediate inner and outer experiences. Moment-by-moment attention to thoughts, e motions ,sensations, and surroundings. Losing oneself n the present moment, lack of judgement, simple observation.
