Analyzing the Effectiveness of Positive Psychology Interventions

Course overview

Positive psychology is a relatively new field that focuses on enhancing well-being and optimal functioning and that includes themes such as savoring, gratitude, kindness, promoting positive relationships, and pursuing hope and meaning. This intermediate continuing education course, developed using information from the BMC Psychiatry Journal, is to examine the effects of positive psychology interventions on well-being, depression, anxiety, and stress in clinical samples with psychiatric or somatic disorders, as well as to evaluate its cost-effectiveness. Findings from a systematic review are presented as well as results of a specific study analyzing the cost effects of a guided positive psychology intervention and how it impacted flourishing mental health, anxiety and depressive symptoms.