Made in the UAE : an indigenous positive psychology for the United Arab Emirates

dc.contributor.authorLambert, Louise
dc.contributor.authorPasha-Zaidi, Nausheen
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-29T13:14:15Z
dc.date.available2020-01-29T13:14:15Z
dc.date.copyright2015
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionThis book chapter is not available at CUD collection. The version of scholarly record of this book chapter is published in Mental Health and Psychological Practice in the United Arab Emirates (2015), available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137558237_8.en_US
dc.description.abstractPositive psychology focuses on the creation of positive emotions and positive experiences in the lives of individuals, groups, and societies. It examines the positive aspects of people’s lives and its research aims are to study the reasons for individuals and groups to excel. The founders, Martin Seligman and Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi (2000), argue that traditional psychologists ignore people who want to be happy if they don’t have a mental disorder. As such, although the psychologist’s goal is to help, they often just help individuals to better cope with misery. In other words, they argue that mainstream psychologists have been so programmed to see only what is wrong with a person that when someone doesn’t necessarily have any sort of pathology but wants to simply improve his or her life, psychologists have nothing to say. Clients such as these end up feeling disappointed in therapy—and often grow worse—as they are not given the skills to move forward.en_US
dc.identifier.citationLambert, L., & Pasha-Zaidi, N. (2015). Made in the UAE: An indigenous positive psychology for the United Arab Emirates. In: C.Y. Al-Karam & A. Haque (Eds.), Mental Health and Psychological Practice in the United Arab Emirates (pp 83-91). New York : Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137558237_8en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9781137558237; 9781349566525
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137558237_8
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12519/76
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillanen_US
dc.relationAuthors Affiliations: Lambert, L., Canadian University of Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Pasha-Zaidi, N., Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMental Health and Psychological Practice in the United Arab Emirates;
dc.rightsPermission to reuse the abstract has been secured from the Palgrave Macmillan.en_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright: 2015 Louise Lambert and Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi
dc.subjectPositive emotionen_US
dc.subjectPositive psychologyen_US
dc.subjectSupport autonomyen_US
dc.subjectCharacter strengthsen_US
dc.subjectHappiness studyen_US
dc.titleMade in the UAE : an indigenous positive psychology for the United Arab Emiratesen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US

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