"POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY": SOME PLUSSES AND SOME OPEN ISSUES

By E. Cowen, Ryan P Kilmer. 2002

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Introduction: Contributions to the Discipline of Positive Organizational Scholarship (2004, background): “…2000), prosocial behavior (e.g., Batson, 1994), citizenship behavior (e.g., Bolino, Turnley, & Bloodgood, 2002), community psychology (e.g., Cowen & Kilmer, 2002), corporate social responsibility (e.g., Margolis & Walsh, 2001), ethics (e.g., Handelsman, Knapp, & Gottlieb 2002), and…”
Positive psychology in clinical practice. (2005, background): “In a review and critique of the field of positive psychology, Cowen & Kilmer (2002) reminded readers that positive psychology researchers are far from the first to contemplate the nature of happiness and how to build it.”
Assessing Strengths, Resilience, and Growth to Guide Clinical Interventions. (2005, background): “Such work has a substantial history (Cowen & Kilmer, 2002; Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1995; Tedeschi, Park, & Calhoun, 1998), with roots including Hollister’s (1965) introduction of the concept of strens, that is, experiences that enhance or strengthen people psychologically, contrasting with the…”
Dreaming the American Dream: Individualism and Positive Psychology (2008, background): “Who counts as a ‘positive psychologist’ and who disavows that identity are matters of some controversy; indeed, the movement seems more centered around personalities than ideas (cf., Cowen & Kilmer, 2002).”