Positive Psychology Interventions: An Overview

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Introduction
Positive psychology interventions refer to psychological interventions which include
therapy, training and exercise mainly focused on uplifting, positive wellbeing regarding feelings,
cognitions and personality as opposed to interventions that target to reduce symptoms, disorders
or problems. In a few decades ago, several psychological treatments have been established for
various related psychopathology symptoms such as anxiety and depression. Effectiveness has
been realised in cognitive behavioural therapy, interpersonal therapy and problem-solving
therapy. Preventive and early interventions like the Don’t panic course, Coping with Depression
Course, Counting your blessings, coming up with personal goals, practising kindness, expressing
gratitude, using individual strengths to improve well-being and Living Life to the Full is some of
the developed interventions (Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi 2014).
Mental health is a condition of well-being such that a person becomes aware of his or her
abilities and can withstand the normal stresses of life, can perform productively and can make a
contribution to the community he or she belongs (Steve 2016). People can experience the
freedom of mental illness and at the same time feel unhappy and showcase a high level of
dysfunction in everyday life. Also, people suffering from mental disorders can experience
happiness by adapting to their illness and enjoy fulfilling good life (Donaldson, Dollwet and Rao
2015). Well-being decreases the chances of developing mental disorders and symptoms and
assists in reducing mortality risks in individuals with a disease which is physical. Although the
concept of well-being, being happy and human flourishing have been examined for the past
decades, there was a deficiency of evidence-based interventions.

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The positive psychology interventions all apply the concept of positive psychology which
the sub-branch of the psychology discipline and it merely means, the study of the way human
beings manoeuvre in the times of adversity.It aims at identifying and enhancing the human
strengths and virtues that make life worth living and enable people and communities to succeed
or thrive. I implemented interpersonal therapy intervention using Positive Clinical Psychology.
The findings on the impact of Positive Psychology in clinical practice is still an on-going project.
However, several studies have been done which indicate the validity of these interventions in
clinical psychology treatment (Proyer et al. 2015).
Interpersonal therapy intervention
Overview and goals:
Research in the previous majorly focused on the presence of negative traits of personality
and the way along with the impaired well-being created vulnerability on the development of
depression. The aspects of life which were positive appeared to have been left, and the aim is to
explore how the absence of the positive traits results in an additional depression risk factor.
To handle the concept of well-being fully, it is categorized into two separate parts:
Subjective which is also termed as hedonic and psychological also termed as eudemonic well-
being. Subjective well-being covers the emotional functioning of a person’s subjective
evaluation of life while psychological targets on more existential concerns and how the person
interacts with the world (Csikszentmihalyi 2014).
I carried out the intervention at in two places (place A and B) in Australia respectively,
and where the number of 5876 individuals took part in the study, females were 58% ages
between 53 and 59 those in A and 61 and 66 those in B. I took into consideration of the vehicle
ownership, homeownership, and annual income/assets. Marital, education and status of