Cultivate hope with strengths-based practices grounded in positive psychology.If you suffer from depression, sub-clinical depression, or low mood, you may have days where you feel like you’ve lost hope—hope that you’ll ever feel better, that the world will be a better place, or that you’ll someday find the happiness that always seems to elude you. You aren’t alone. Many people struggle with feelings of sadness and hopelessness—especially in our difficult, ...

"We have a situation that borders on a snake pit." - Robert F. Kennedy In 1987, following a public outcry about its questionable medical practices, Staten Island's Willowbrook State School for people with intellectual disabilities closed its doors for good. Flat broke and almost finished with graduate school, Dan Tomasulo -- now a core faculty member at Columbia University's Spirituality Mind Body Institute -- was hired to relocate Willowbrook's most severely disabled inhabitants into a gr...

Hoffnung ist unser wichtigstes psychologisches Kapital. Umso erstaunlicher ist es, dass wir eine falsche Auffassung davon haben: Anders als viele glauben, hat Hoffnung nichts mit passivem Abwarten zu tun – im Gegenteil: Hoffnung ist die Überzeugung, die eigene Zukunft aktiv und selbstbestimmt gestalten zu können. Wer sich angewöhnt, zuversichtlich zu denken, ist nachweislich resilienter, hat mehr Erfolg, stärkere Beziehungen und ist auch körperlich gesünder. Anhand von beeindruckenden Fall...

Engedd szabadjára a pozitivitás erejét, hogy megszabadulj a szorongástól és kiteljesedj!Aki szorong, könnyen a negatív dolgokon való rágódás, az aggodalom és az elkerülés ördögi körében találhatja magát – és végül lemarad mindarról, amit az élet kínál neki. De mi lenne, ha megváltoztathatnánk a nézőpontunkat, ha átalakítanánk a stressz okozta negativitáshoz fűződő kapcsolatunkat? Mi történne, ha megtanulnánk rugalmasabban reagálni a váratlan helyzetekre és mindvégig hinnénk abban, ...

Harness the power of positivity to overcome anxiety—and thrive!If you suffer from anxiety, you may feel stuck in a vicious cycle of rumination, worry, and avoidance—and ultimately miss out on all life has to offer. But what if you could shift your thinking and start living with more expansiveness, hope, and happiness? What if you could transform stress and anxiety, and find lasting balance, peace, and joy? This book can show you how.Based in proven...

This book examines the science and practice of character strengths as the backbone for understanding, studying, and applying positive interventions across a wide range of disabilities. It explores character strengths as positive personality qualities most central to an individual’s identity that create positive outcomes for building well-being and managing adversities and contribute to the collective good. The book recognizes disability as a part of the human experience that can emerge for...

Cultivate hope with strengths-based practices grounded in positive psychology.If you suffer from depression, sub-clinical depression, or low mood, you may have days where you feel like you've lost hope—hope that you'll ever feel better, that the world will be a better place, or that you'll someday find the happiness that always seems to elude you. You aren't alone. Many people struggle with feelings of sadness and hopelessness—especially in our difficult, modern wo...

If you suffer from anxiety, you may feel stuck in a vicious cycle of rumination, worry, and avoidance—and ultimately miss out on all life has to offer. But what if you could shift your thinking and start living with more expansiveness, hope, and happiness? What if you could transform stress and anxiety, and find lasting balance, peace, and joy?Based in proven-effective cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and positive psychology, psychologist Dan Tomasulo offers powerful skills to help...