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Part I
Required Discussion Board assignment.
A developing field in psychology is called positive psychology, which is exploring ways to help people become happier and productive in life. Research the Internet to learn more about this type of psychology. Share what you learn with your classmates on the Discussion Board.
- Do you think that positive psychology is in more demand now that stress and economic hardship is more prominent in the United States?
- Are people under more stress now than in the past, if so, why do you think so?
- Do you consider yourself a happy person?
- In what ways could you enhance your own happiness?
Part II
Re:Unit3 – Discussion Board
Bernadette Moore-Simmons
02/25/2014
Unit3 Discussion Board
Positive Psychology
I have searched the internet and found some meanings for positive psychology but this one I have come up with was: Positive psychology is a branch of psychology that focuses on improving the mental functioning of human beings above that of normal mental health. Researchers in this rapidly growing field investigate what makes human beings happy and how an individual can lead a fulfilling and satisfying life. As a field of inquiry, its purpose is to understand and foster the factors that allow individuals, communities, and societies to flourish (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000), adapting what is best in the scientific method to the unique problems that human behavior presents. (SelfGrowth.com). Do you think that positive psychology is in more demand now that stress and economic hardship is more prominent in the United States? Yes I do think positive psychology is in more demand now because of all the crime we see and go through now and today. I mean we have children killing children, we have children killing their parents, shooting up schools, committing suicide, abusing drugs more than ever, and mental issues more now than then. I have said before when I was coming up my grandmother was still alive and she did not believe in seeing a counselor or psychologist because mental illnesses weren’t really an issue then like it is now. Our grandmothers and granddad’s really had no reconciliation of these sicknesses than like now. It’s something because some of my illnesses I show now at the age of thirty seven I can think about some things I did when I was younger that I now see was very disturbing or should I just say mentally challenging but no one knew what having bipolar, or schizophrenic, was so everyone looked over the issues.
Are people under more stress now than in the past, if so why do you think so? I feel that people are under more stress now than the past. I mean look at the cost of living now than in the past. People now have to have some kind of income to live a little decent life. I mean if you do not want to live in a shelter, living on your own is pricey and hard because there is no just getting by now it’s not enough. So much of our population now needs a car just to get around when in the past busing and trains were the most popular. Cars are expensive to buy and more expensive to maintain. It is very hard for a low-income family to try to afford a car to get around, or even gas to put into the car, or maintenance on the car. Now everything is all about money. If you as a person have no money you nine times out of ten have nothing. I know that is a harsh thing to say but truthfully in this life right now it’s true. Do you consider yourself a happy person? No I do not consider myself a happy person. I say this because I have been living in a manic depressed state for four years now. Sometimes I am happy depending on the situation; for instance, like now when I am writing, working, or cleaning, or even doing fun things but not having an income limits me to having fun time all the time. Most of the time I am bored, I am sad, and I am lonely. My phone does not ring. I do not have friends, or supportive family. My mom picks her phone up to call my sister but she will not pick it up to call me. It hurt my feelings very bad and no matter how I try to talk to my mom about it she still continue to do. She will not talk to me at all after an argument with me but she has no problem with talking to my brother or sister. Most of my depression comes from the lack of not being loved. I do not feel my family loves me, my husband left me, and my children are so unjust to me when all I do is try to love them and keep them from going through some of the bad experiences I went through. My oldest so do not talk to me or his siblings at all and that hurts me too. It’s just the feeling of loneliness brings depression to you and sometimes the feeling of not wanting to be around anymore when no one cares anyway. In what ways can you enhance your own happiness? Like I have said I think having something to do keep me happy, somewhere to be keeps me happy even if it’s for a few hours. Being in the house all day everyday with nothing to do tends to bring memories from the past up and the sadness begins, the madness comes in, and crankiness plays it roll. I do not like to be a mean person, cranky, or angry person all the time but unfortunately bipolar illness can do this to a person. Bottom line if a human being who lives with depression, bipolar, or any mental illness can sometime find it best to stay active because it helps tremendously with the sickness having a person by your side who is understanding and helpful would not hurt either.
References
Growth.com
Ella Weese Edwards
Discuss: Week 3 Positive Psychology
This week’s discussion focused on positive psychology. In my opinion you are the one that can make it negative or positive. If you are living a negative life full of doubts an uncertainties, hanging,, with negative people saying what you can’t do or son’t have or not doing whay it takes in the right manner to get these things you are bot libing for a purpose. On the other hand, positive thoughts, having a goal in life, people that will ne willing to a positive figure in your life. With much self determination, you can excel in the workforce and life.
Are people more stressed than before? My opinion again , yes, and it is alll bought on with the raising cost of living, the rich trying to get richer at anybody else expense. an example, Wall Street white collar criminals took all the money that they could and when things hit the ceiling, all that didn’t resigned, committed suicide. These Jordan’s tennis shoes, he doesn’t know who you are, last long as you are stressing yourself out getting these shoes. Things were better nack in my days when you knew what you had, how to work and get the other things. And we attend church every Sinday and was “thank So ful” for what iI had.
Do consider my self to ne a happy person? YES!! Everyday of ny lifem good, difficult and in time of sorry. I am happy. Sharing one of my experiences. On December 16,2013. While at the Christmas Parade helping with the lineup. My Doctor call and said that my test were positive and that I had breast cancer. I said “OK, he was quite and ask when could we set up an appointment to discuss things. Monday of the following week, we met, he told me my the procedures that I will have . January 9.2014, my port was installed. February 14 2014 I had my first chemo and things went well, no signs of anything that they were expecting. I have it to God. and He will bring me through it (if it is HIs will)/ February 21,2014, my husband had his right leg amputated below the knee….and I am still happy because he is alive and doing well.
If you believe in yourself, family support and true friends that are there with positive attitutdes, you can fly as high as the Eagle.
Part III – Unit 3 -Individual Project
You recently were asked to attend a meeting to discuss the hiring process in your workplace. The Human Resources Director attended and made the following statement: “ We obviously want intelligent people, but we also want them to have emotional intelligence”.
What did the HR director mean by that? To learn more about emotional intelligence, explore the sites listed below. Please take one of the Emotional Intelligence (EI) tests. Reflect on your results and explore ways that you might develop an enhanced emotional IQ.
The following sites have informal self – administered surveys that introduce the concept of EI in an interesting and personal way. There are also links at these sites to follow-up on emotional quotient (EQ) assessment and enhancement approaches.
http://discoveryhealth.queendom.com/eiq_abridged_access.html
http://www.ihhp.com/testsite.htm
After taking the test, write a 2 – 3 page paper that covers the following:
- Test results and a description of your experience in taking the test – a reflection on the results of the test
- Explanation of emotional intelligence including examples. Include the theories and ideas around EI
- Why emotional intelligence is important
- Ways that one can enhance their emotional intelligence
Be sure to document your references using APA format.
Please use the following guidelines for formatting your assignment.
- Margins – set to one inch
- Font – 12pt. Times New Roman, no bold, or underline
- Title – center above the paper, 12 pt. font (Level A Heading), no bold, underline, or italics
- Pagination – every page; consists of a header containing a short title for the paper and page number placed in the upper right corner of the page
- Line Spacing – double space all work including the References Page
- Point-of-View – third person, objective; limit perspective to research; no personal opinion or narrative First person is allowed in describing the test and results, as well as discussing personal ways to enhance EI
- In-text citations – must conform to APA requirements
- References list – must conform to APA requirements
Please submit your assignment.
