POSITIVE PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOLOGY. CLINICAL APPLICATIONS

Part 1: Basic Concepts, Background, and History
• Positive Psychiatry: An Introduction
• Positive Psychotherapy: An Introduction
• Positive Psychology: An Introduction
Part 2: Staying Positive Through Life
• Positive Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Positive Psychiatry in Midlife
• Professional well-being
• Successful Aging
• Life Balance with Positive Psychotherapy
Part 3: Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Disorders
• Positive interventions in Depression
• Positive interventions in Anxiety disorders
• Positive interventions in Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders
• Positive interventions in Substance Use Disorders
• Positive Psychotherapy and Eating Disorders
• Positive interventions in PTSD and post traumatic growth
• Positive Psychosomatics
• Positive Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Part 4: Special Settings and Populations
• Culture and Minorities: Positive Psychology and Positive Psychiatry Perspectives
• Positive Psychotherapy in different Cultures
• Positive Sports Psychiatry
• Positive Family Counselling and Marital Therapy
• Positive Pedagogy and Counselling
• Positive Group Psychotherapy
• Positive Psychotherapy in organizational and leadership coaching
• Psychotherapeutic work with men
Part 5: Theoretical Foundations and Training
• Theoretical Foundations and Roots of Positive Psychotherapy
• The First Interview in Positive Psychotherapy
• The Conflict Model in Positive Psychotherapy
• Using stories, anecdotes and humor in Positive Psychotherapy
• Supervision in Positive Psychotherapy
• Spirituality and Religion in positive psychiatry and psychology
• Positive Psychotherapy as an Existentialism
• Positive Psychotherapy and other psychotherapeutic methods
• Positive Psychotherapy and Meaning
• Positive interpretation as a tool in psychotherapy.

For hundreds of years, psychology has looked into the dysfunctions and symptoms of the mind. It’s only over the last few decades that the field has started to pay attention to what constitutes a functional and content life. Instead of using disease to understand health, positive psychology studies the components of a good life and helps people not only avoid mental health problems but develop happiness. The work done in positive psychology is now at a point where applications are being developed in positive psychotherapy and extended to those with psychiatric diagnoses in positive psychiatry. While these fields are a recent development they hold the promise of helping all of us live a fulfilled life.
Medicine in general, and psychiatry in particular, suffers from a worldview that is symptom- and deficit-oriented. By adopting a positive approach, psychology, psychotherapy, and psychiatry add a more holistic, integrative, resource oriented, and preventive perspective. There is great urgency in developing resources and potentials in our patients, not only freeing them from their disorders.
Psychiatrists and psychotherapists alike are incorporating these positive tools into their practices with positive clinical outcomes. Standing on the shoulders of pioneers like Nossrat Peseschkian, in positive psychotherapy, and Dilip Jeste, in positive psychiatry, this textbook is the first to bring together these innovations in one volume that will serve as an excellent resource for medical professionals looking to reap the benefits gained by the studies in these areas. Currently, the majority of texts that are available are targeting psychologists and researchers, whereas this book seeks to use positive psychology as the foundation on which the clinical applications are built.
As such, this book will be of interest to psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals. It may be used in educating a new generation of mental health professionals in these tenets that are expanding the reach of psychology, the practice of psychotherapy, and the scope of psychiatry.

Features
• The first book to bring together the innovations gained from positive psychology, psychotherapy, and psychiatry
• Takes a reader-friendly approach for accessibility
• Written by global experts in positive mental health