Mid-Term Exam

Department of Psychology

Submitted to

Ma’am Samra

Semester 4

SECTION: B2

Submitted by:

Aamna Ahmad

Roll Number:

2426
Positive Psychology:
Positive psychology is defined as the scientific study of human strengths and virtues.

Importance of Positive Psychology:

Application of positive psychology in family life:
Family life is the kind of life a person normally leads when one is married and has children.
The application OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY on a family system encourages the strengths
a person has individually and then helps him channel it out to one’s family. The importance
of positive psychology in family life is given below:

1. It helps children develop capacities that are a family’s strength.

2. Children are the center focus, and the end goal is the enhanced outcomes for children.
3. It focuses on the family-identified needs rather them the professional identification
methods.
4. It promotes the acquisition of new skill and helps children learn specific behaviors and
roles.
5. Emphasizes on strengthening social supports.
6. The goal of positive psychology is to bring out common interests in family and children.
7. It promotes the existing family strengths and use them to mobilize family resources.

Contribution of positive psychology in the welfare of the community:

Over the last few years, people have been more inclined towards the wellbeing and happiness of
the community. Positive psychology helps in the welfare of the community through a number of
channels. The group level of positive psychology focusses on the positive interaction one has
with their community and includes traits like altruism, nurturance, tolerance, work ethic social
responsibility and other factors and virtues that strengthen our bonds with the social life we have.
Positive psychology has had a fair share in bringing out the collectivist culture that makes people
work together to form a society that is beneficial for both individuals and communities. People
who study positive psychology have been more bent towards how one should one, after
mastering the individual level, should move on the group level of positive psychology and help
people have a positive outlook on the social life of a human being.

Overall role of positive psychology in health sector & transition of life:

Since there has been a rise to the positive psychology, there is a shift seen in the mental health
practice that makes the theory unite with positive functioning and advances on the positive
psychology. According to a survey conducted, the health of people can be enhanced if they start
the use of

 Optimism
 Social support
  Self esteem
 Active coping skills.

30 years of research has been conducted in order to claim that health and positive psychology are
interrelated and help in creating a positive social environment and improve well being through
out the society. Positive psychology has also been used as an aid in treating depression.

The impact of community on mental health and subjective well-being of the residents:

Mental health is a complex thing and the social environment one lives in is one of the many
factors that affect the mental health of a person. There are many factors that have in impact on
the mental health and the subjective well being of a person. According to a study, people who
had the highest level of subjective well being had satisfying social lives. Some if the things that
impact the mental health and wellbeing are:

 A person is accepting of others.

 They get socially engaged.
 They feel independent.
 They have a feeling a belongingness
 There is a feeling of independence
 They are satisfied with their lives
 They have more positive emotions
 They accept themselves.

Even though the community can have a negative impact on a person’s life and might ruin their
life, but it can make one’s life as well. Subjective wellbeing depends on the community as well
and can have the above mentioned benefits.

Role of religion in the mental health and subjective well-being of the people:
Religion and spirituality have an incredibly positive impact on the mental health of a person,
even though the results have been proved different. According to some reports, people who have
higher levels of spirituality and religion in their lives are more optimist and tend to have a better
mental health than the people who are not very religiously active. Religious involvement benefits
a person’s individual and social life as well. Praying helps a person in expressing gratitude, yoga
and meditating helps them in expressing love, hope and forgiveness. These points emphasize the
role of religiosity in one’s life.

Present Status and Recent Trends:

 Significance of the legal, ethical, and professional issues of positive psychology:
Ethical issues: Ethical issues may include not telling the client of more options to cure their
mental health problems, other than positive psychology, even if they are well sited and better.
Similarly, if he is judged on the basis of color, caste, and creed, it is not fair to the client at
all.

Legal issues: Legal issues include therapists not having a proper license to practice positive
psychology.

Professional issues: Professional issues include not providing the client a safe space,
misusing their trust, and giving out therapy details without their permission and messing up
with their mental health even more.

 Limitations and strengths of positive psychology:

Limitations and strengths of positive psychology are discussed below.
Limitations of positive psychology:
There can be a few limitations to positive psychology. A few of these are described
below:

 Unprepared for tough times: Positive psychology makes a person so optimist that
he only focuses the positive things. This makes them unprepared for the negative
things that happen in a person’s life.
 Bad for one’s health: Being fussy and critical of one’s health makes them care for
their health kore than one being overly optimist.
 Can be a cause of poor mental health: At its extreme, positivity can be truly
unhealthy. In fact, other research by June Gruber finds that people who consistently
report extreme degrees of happiness tend to be less creative, engage in more risky
behavior and are at greater risk for mental illness.

Strengths of Positive Psychology:

Following are a few strengths of positive psychology:

 Positive emotions can bring out the best in us

 Making us more creative
 Makes us open-minded
 People get resilient, and connected to others
 Happy people tend on average to be healthier, more physically active, more
successful, more productive, and more generous.
 They have more satisfying romantic relationships, more meaningful
conversations, and better friends.
 They may even live longer.