Positive Psychology in the Asia-Pacific

 

Did you enjoy the 2008 Australian Positive Psychology and Well-being Conference?

You can download a number of PDFs from this year's conference below. The presentations are listed by title; several more will be added over the coming week.

Keynote Addresses

• The science of well-being: Implications for flourishing across the life course. Felicia Huppert.
• But will we make a difference? Facing challenges of transferring and embedding the riches of our knowledge. Roger Collins.
• Evidence-based coaching as an applied Positive Psychology. Anthony Grant.
• Mindfulness, health and happiness. Craig Hassed.
• Eat a cake, bake a cake, or give a cake to your neighbour: Which produces the greatest level of happiness? Dianne Vella-Brodrick.
• Is it possible to become happier, and if so, how? Ken Sheldon.
• Positive psychology and the challenge of subjective well-being homeostasis. Robert Cummins.
• When sad is better than happy: The strange cognitive benefits of mild dysphoria. Joseph Forgas.
• Psychotherapy and the positive emotions: A marriage in need of consummation. George Vaillant.
• An introduction to positive organisational scholarship. Gretchen Spreitzer, Abraham Carmeli, John Stephens, & David Sweetman.
• Work-life in Australia: The situation, the solutions. Barbara Pocock.
• Well-being research: Different perspectives, implications, and applications. Richard Eckersley.

 

Workshops

• Doing positive psychology: How to assess for and apply outcome-oriented interventions. George Burns.

 

Specialised Streams

Stream 1	Stream 2	Stream 3	Stream 4	Stream 5	Stream 6	Stream 7
Positive Psychology goes to school. Toni Noble.	Coaching psychology and positive psychology: Perfect partners at work. Suzy Green & Gordon Spence.	Promoting wellbeing via an internet positive psychology intervention. Joanna Mitchell.	Understanding, measuring, and strengthening community well-being: Towards new paradigms for individual, organisational and social change. John Wiseman.	Play and playfulness: A core issue in research, therapy and life. George Burns.	Creating flourishing leadership through developmental coaching. Michael Cavanagh.	Children or Hedons? Two kinds of happiness, and why we can't always have both. Caroline West.
The ecology of school well-being. Sue Roffey.	The positive workplace: Applying positive psychology in the public service and private sector. Amanda Horne, Julia Gane.	Worker engagement and well-being in the alcohol and other drug workforce. Chelsea Todd.	Creating a culture of unrelenting optimism: A Camp Quality case study. Sue Langley.	Subjective well-being, culture, capability and human needs. Charles Waldegrave.	Happiness at work: Towards a comprehensive model. Tim Sharp.	Sport psychology perspective: Grinners are winners! Lydia Ievleva.
	The relationship between psychological capital, employee involvement climate and capacity for change: Implications for organisational practice. Anne Ward.	The 'what', 'why', and 'how' of employee well-being. Kathryn Page & Dianne Vella-Brodrick.	Health coaching: Applying positive psychology to chronic disease prevention and self management in health and medical settings. Janette Gale and Lisa Densley.	POSTER SESSION. Attainment of intrinsic and extrinsic goals revisited: The interaction of goal and well-being dimensions. Mami Yamaguchi & Jamin Halberstadt.	Psychological well-being: The role of leadership. Ivan Robertson & Lyndal Hughes.	The psychology of success. John Franklin.
		Improving hardiness in elite footballers. Campbell Thompson.

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