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This course is part of Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization
Instructor: Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D.
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Identify your five signature strengths
Describe the character strengths that promote well-being
Craft a positive intervention using a signature strength
Share your work by writing a post-intervention assessment
Add to your LinkedIn profile
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Add this credential to your LinkedIn profile, resume, or CV
Share it on social media and in your performance review
You are encouraged to take the first four courses of the Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization before starting this course and completing the Specialization Project. This course, taught by Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman brings all the key concepts from the first four courses to practice as you develop and test a new positive intervention for an audience of your choice. You identify opportunities in your daily life to increase the wellbeing by using knowledge you developed in the first four courses of the Specialization. In this final project, you evaluate the efficacy of a positive intervention based on subjective and objective measures. Then, you compare how empirical and non-empirically-based positive interventions can be applied to influence a person's wellbeing. Lastly, you reflect on how the fundamental elements of research methods are important in the everyday application of positive psychology.
After completing all five courses, learners earn a certificate signed by Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman, Dr. James Pawelski, Dr. Angela Duckworth, Dr. Claire Robertson-Kraft and Dr. Karen Reivich.
Module 1 of the Positive Psychology Capstone reviews the VIA Character Strengths Classification and in particular asks the learner to identify his or her five signature strengths and assess if they are authentic.
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Module 2 presents Chris Peterson's unfinished theory on mental illness. Specifically his belief that the absence of strengths, the excess of strengths, and the opposite of strengths might define 72 conditions of character weakness, and that these shortcomings might be a better framework than the DSM which uses a checklist of symptoms.
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Module 3 has the learner target an area for remediation from among Peterson's inventory of 72 deviant strengths and craft a positive intervention using a signature strength.
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Module 4 has the learner put the positive intervention into action, assess and the share the results, and finally reduce the positive intervention to writing so it can be shared.
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Reviewed on Aug 4, 2019
This is a very good course in an excellent specialisation. Granted, the material could be organised a little better, but the results are something to behold anyway.
Reviewed on Jan 1, 2021
It made me clerar how to design and implement a scientific positive intervention, and how to measure to improve better my professional outcomes.
Reviewed on Aug 26, 2017
The full specialization was amazing! I have learnt a lot, I have flourished, I have got a lot of inspirations for my private and work life. Thank you.
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