Positive Psychology: The Basics
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2020
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 292
- Category :
Popular Psychology - Catalogue No : 95153
- ISBN 13 : 9781138551954
- ISBN 10 : 9781138551
About the Author(s)
Dr Rona Hart is an Associate Professor in Applied Positive Psychology at the School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK. She is a lecturer, researcher, practitioner and author specialising in Positive Psychology and Economic Psychology. Recently, she launched a pioneering interdisciplinary field – Positive Economic Psychology – which integrates these two domains. Her textbook, Positive Psychology: The Basics (2020), is widely adopted in higher education and has been translated into several languages. Rona is also a long-standing member of the International Positive Psychology Association and holds several leadership roles: Member of the Leadership Team of the Work and Organisation Division; Director of Communities of Practice; Director of the Professionalising Positive Psychology Policy Initiative; Leader of a Community of Practice; and a member of the IPPA Taskforce on Accreditation. Rona is also a Co-Editor of the International Journal of Wellbeing, and has served as guest editor for several special issues on Positive Economic Psychology, Flourishing at Work and Prosocial Organisational Behaviour.