Evaulation Flashcards
What are two strengths of the Positive approach?
Successful applications - MBCT has been used to help countless depressed patients
Acceptance of Free will - Its the only approach to accept that we have the abilty to control our lives
Why is the subjectiveness of happiness a weaknesses of the Positive approach?
Happiness can’t be measured - its subjective therfore cannot be measured objectively, which means the approach cannot apply to everyone the same way
Why is the cognitive approach ignoring individual differences such a significant weakness?
The positive approach implements a ‘one size fits all’ stance on the power of postivity , which simply cannot be applied to cases such as Bi-polar or Schizophrenia , where Freewill can’t be used deal with the symptoms
What are two weakness of the Positive Approach?
It ignores individual differences
Happiness is subjective
