Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and

Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification by Christopher Peterson, Martin Seligman

Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification Christopher Peterson, Martin Seligman ebook
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Format: djvu
ISBN: 0195167015, 9780195167016
Page: 794

An important milestone in the study of strengths occurred in 2004, with the publication of Character Strengths and Virtues by Peterson and Seligman. Martin Seligman, he established the nonprofit VIA Institute in 2002 to create a classification of character strengths and virtues and scientifically valid tools for measuring these character strengths. Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification. Among the aspirations of the Classification is to identify elemental positive traits that can combine to form more complex traits, but which cannot be decomposed into one another. Research on character strengths by Chris Peterson and colleagues has been monumental to the field of positive psychology and has ushered in a new science of character that involves a classification system (VIA Classification) and a scientific measurement tool . The VIA Institute serves as a for inclusion (see pp. Niemiec, Rashid, and Spinella (2012) suggest that this integration creates a synergy of mutual benefit that can foster a virtuous circle in which mindful awareness boosts strengths use which, in turn, enlivens mindfulness. Washington D.C.: American Psychological Assn. The child sexual abuse accomodation syndrome. By Christopher Peterson and Martin E. Child Abuse & Neglect, 7(2), 177-193. From Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Character strengths and virtues: A handbook and classification. Wisdom and knowledge – cognitive strengths that entail the acquisition and use of knowledge. Modulating social behavior with oxytocin: how does it work?