C1-Positive approach- Evaluation Flashcards
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What is free will v determinism?(2)
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- only approach that focuses on free will being a strength
- can be a weakness- Held 2002 free will can lead to blaming people for their own unhappiness and this may make things worse
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What are the applications?(2)
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- has been used in resilience in the army. Aim of specialised training is to improve different aspects of resiience and reduces stress symptoms. They help develop signature strengths eg courage so they return home without mental illness
- has been used in education to help them increase well being through development
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What is other evaluation?(2)
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- mindfulness came from budhism
- some may argue that removing religious aspects from therapy makes it unauthentic and no more than breathing and relaxation and this can be seen as unethical due to destroying view of philosophy
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What is scientific?(2)
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- quantitative data collected by closed qs in questionairres in Myers and Dieners can be repeated so it is reliable
- Lazannas 2003 many studies are correlational so we cant assign casuality or make concrete conclusions and psychodynamic approach is unfalsifiable
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What is ignoring individual differences?(4)
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- nomothetic-weakness
- christopher and Hickinbottom 2008 suggest the approach is ethnocentric based on culture western ideas
- believe collectivism over individualism
- mindfulness therapy is ideographic
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What is not a new idea?(3)
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- ignores work of Abraham Maslow in terms of humanistic psychology
- positive psychology is argue to ignore qualitative methods which humanistic psychology used and they believe it will result in narrow explanations of human behaviour
- self actualisation= meaningful life
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Is this approach more nature or nurture?(1)
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-both: interactionist approach
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Is this approach holistic or reductionist?(2)
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- holisitc: investigates the complexity of behaviour
- can be a weakness as not easy to provide a cause and effect conclusion
