{"product_id":"the-routledge-international-handbook-of-critical-positive-psychology-9780367226343","title":"The Routledge International Handbook of Critical","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the turn of the twenty-first century, the field of positive psychology has sought to implement a science of human flourishing so that we may lead happier, more fulfilling lives. It has found expression not only in academic papers but also popular books and, increasingly, in government policy. \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge International Handbook of Critical Positive Psychology \u003c\/i\u003eis the first volume dedicated to a critical appraisal of this influential but controversial field of study.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book critically examines not only the scientific foundations of positive psychology, but also the sociocultural and political tenets on which the field rests. It evaluates the current field of knowledge and practice, and includes chapters analysing the methodological constructs of the field, as well as others that question what positive psychology actually means by ideas such as happiness or well-being. Taking the debate further, the book then discusses how positive psychology can be applied i\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInteriorizing and Interrogating Well-Being\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsaac Prilleltensky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritical Positive Psychology: A Creative Convergence of Two Disciplines\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePiers Worth and Matthew Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 1: Criticism of Positive Psychology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicholas J. L. Brown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Unavoidable Role of Values in Positive Psychology: Reflections in Light of Psychology’s Replicability Crisis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrent Dean Robbins and Harris L. Friedman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking a Closer Look at Well-Being as a Scientific Construct: Delineating its Conceptual Nature and Boundaries in Relation to Spirituality and Existential Functioning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDouglas A. MacDonald\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Meaning and Valence of Gratitude in Positive Psychology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiz Gulliford and Blaire Morgan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePositive Psychology, Mental Health, and the False Promise of the Medical Model\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSam Thompson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs Positive Psychology an Indigenous Psychology?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeanne Marecek and John Chambers Christopher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommunity Psychology’s Contributions on Happiness and Well-being: Including the Role of Context, Social Justice, and Values in Our Understanding of the Good Life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSalvatore Di Martino, Francisco José Eiroa-Orosa, and Caterina Arcidiacono\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePositive Psychology: Intellectual, Scientific, or Ideological Movement?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBernardo Moreno-Jiménez and Aldo Aguirre-Camacho\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs Positive Psychology Compatible With Freedom?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigby Tantam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritique of Positive Psychology and Positive Interventions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul T. P. Wong and Sandip Roy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToward a Well-Spoken Explanatory Style\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Kalkin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Introduction to Criticality for Students of Positive Psychology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicholas J. L. Brown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterlude 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive Historic Philosophers Discuss Human Flourishing and Happiness in Positive Psychology: A Speculative Dialogue in Three Acts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiz Gulliford and Kristján Kristjánsson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 2: Doing Positive Psychology Critically\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTim Lomas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Re-appraisal of Boredom: A Case Study in Second Wave Positive Psychology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTim Lomas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAffirming the Positive in Anomalous Experiences: A Challenge to Dominant Accounts of Reality, Life, and Death\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdith Steffen, David J. Wilde, and Callum E. Cooper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncovering the Good in Positive Psychology: Toward a Worldview Conception That Can Help Positive Psychology Flourish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter C. Hill and M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToward a Culturally Competent Positive Psychology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdil Qureshi and Stella Evangelidou\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCultural and Racial Perspectives on Positive Psychologies of Humility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid R. Paine, Sarah H. Moon, Daniel J. Hauge, and Steven J. Sandage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePositive Psychology’s Religious Imperative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel K. Brown and David G. George\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 20\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharacter Strengths as Critique: The Power of Positive Psychology to Humanise the Workplace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoger Bretherton and Ryan M. Niemiec\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 21\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToward an Integrative Applied Positive Psychology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eByron Lee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 22\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePositive Politics: Left-wing Versus Right-wing Policies, and Their Impact on the Determinants of Wellbeing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTim Lomas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 23\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Proposed Enquiry Into the Effect of Sociocultural Changes on Well-Being\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancisco Jose Eiroa-Orosa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 24\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComplexity: Towards a New Measure of Societal Well-being\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel T. Gruner and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterlude 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 25\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePleasure as a Form of Liberatory Practice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTod Sloan and Marisol Garcia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 3: Applied Perspectives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancisco Jose Eiroa-Orosa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 26\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommunity Social Psychology and Positive Psychology: Learning From the Experience of Latin America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRamón Soto Martínez and Salvatore Di Martino\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 27\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePositive, Necessary, and Possible Lives: Experience and Practice from the Struggle for a Dignified Life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosé Eduardo Viera and Lauren Languido\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 28\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring the Role of Engagement on Well-Being and Personal Development: A Review of Adolescent and Mental Health Activism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne C. Montague and Francisco Jose Eiroa-Orosa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 29\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCitizenship, Mental Health, and Positive Psychology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean-François Pelletier, Chyrell Bellamy, Maria O’Connell, Michaella Baker, and Michael Rowe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 30\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Brutality of Reality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChris Beales\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 31\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilotimo: Vices and Virtues of a Moral Archetype\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eManos Rhodes Hatzimalonas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 32\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvaluating Positive Education: A Framework and Case Study\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDianne A. Vella-Brodrick, Nikki S. Rickard, and Tan-Chyuan Chin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 33\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShaping Positive Education Research to Influence Public Policy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharlie Simson, Lauren Rosewarne, and Lea Waters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 34\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePositive Psychology at a City Scale\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMike Zeidler, Liz Zeidler, and Byron Lee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 35\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudging the Efficacy and Ethics of Positive Psychology for Government Policymaking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark D. White\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 36\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeel Good or Be Happy. 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