PS389 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: American Psychiatric Association, Personnel Selection
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He305 week 2 module b: character strengths. Introduction to character strengths: "hide not your talents. Benjamin franklin: shane lopez, who is one of the authors of our textbook in this course, gives a great introduction to character strengths in this tedx talk. It is 991 pages long, and it focuses on disorder and disease. It"s a useful document, as it helps diagnosticians identify and treat mental illness: you probably won"t be surprised to learn that there is no equivalent for mental wellness. There is no diagnostic manual for people who are thriving and flourishing. Take a minute to think about how you would go about developing a classification system. Interestingly, there are various versions of strengths classifications, and they are quite different from each other. We"ll talk about two of them here: the clifton. "what would happen if we studied what is right with people?"
