Second wave positive psychology’s (PP 2.0) contribution to counselling psychology

By P. Wong. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 2019

108 citations recorded by the source corpus.

ABSTRACT Second wave positive psychology (PP 2.0), consisting of two pillars – existential positive psychology and indigenous psychology – emerges as a complement to the limitations of positive psychology as championed by Martin Seligman. This special issue illustrates through various papers the depth and breadth PP 2.0 contributes to counselling psychology. Specifically, PP2.0 introduces the following principles and practices: (1) Accepting and confronting with courage the reality that life is full of evil and suffering; (2) sustainable wellbeing can only be achieved through overcoming suffering and the dark side of life; (3) recognizing that everything in life comes in polarities and the importance of achieving an adaptive balance through dialectics; (4) learning from indigenous psychology, such as the ancient wisdom of finding deep joy in bad situations.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/252a122b56ad426cf4d04ca859b0f432286a92d6