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Critique of positive psychology and positive interventions
- Introduction
- Positive psychology’s fundamental problems
- Positive psychology’s conceptual limitations
- Positive-only focus
- Componential rather than holistic thinking
- Value-neutral position
- Lack of a comprehensive theory
- Positive psychology’s methodological limitations
- Limitations of positive psychology interventions
- Definitional problems
- Critique of specific interventions
- PPIs may not be as effective as originally claimed
- PPIs may involve risk factors
- Some PP experiments may lead to misguided PPIs
- Lack of meaning interventions
- The need for PP 2.0
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
Abstract
In a recent post on the popular German positive psychology (PP) blog Mappalicious, Sonja Lyubomirsky was quoted as saying, “I hope for the label ‘positive psychology’ to be retired. We don’t need it anymore” (Rose, 2016). This raises a question in the minds of PP practitioners and enthusiasts: Is the field spearheaded by Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi (2000) on its last legs? Has the domain been over-used for commercial interests, especially for the field of positive coaching?
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