The Wiley Handbook of Positive Clinical Psychology

The Wiley Handbook of Positive Clinical Psychology is the first handbook to address a revolutionary psychological approach that places equal importance on the positive and negative aspects of mental health and well–being. With consideration of theory, research, and practice, it offers an integrated look at well–being as it relates to personality traits, psychopathology, psychological treatments, and more. Experts from both positive and clinical psychology critique their fields through the lens of positive clinical psychology, and discuss a broad range of topics such as optimism, positive affect, wellbeing therapy, childhood well–being, clinical implementation and integration, evolutionary perspectives, and economic implications. Filled with essential information for researchers, instructors and clinicians, this is the definitive reference for an important new field. 

About the contributors

Developing a Positive Clinical Psychology

1. Developing a Positive Clinical Psychology
Alex M. Wood and Judith Johnson

2. Toward a More Positive Clinical Psychology: Deconstructing the Illness Ideology and Psychiatric Diagnosis
James E. Maddux

3. Why Clinical Psychology Should Not Go Positive and/or Negative
Barbara S. Held

4. A Practical Guide to Positive Functioning Assessment in Clinical Psychology
Stephen Joseph and Tom G. Patterson

Personality and Individual Differences

5. Positive Mood Dysfunction in Psychopathology: A Structural Perspective
David Watson

6. Resilience: The Bi–Dimensional Framework
Judith Johnson

7. Self–Efficacy: A Foundational Concept for Positive Clinical Psychology
James E. Maddux and Evan M. Kleiman

8. Empathy: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Eamonn Ferguson

9. Nostalgia: A Bittersweet Emotion that Confers Psychological Health Benefits
Constantine Sedikides and Tim Wildschut

10. Gratitude
Alex Wood

11. Using Eudaimonic Well–being to Improve Lives
Chiara Ruini and Carol D. Ryff

12. Positive clinical gerontology: Integrating Positive and Negative Perspectives on Ageing
Adam Davidson and George Vaillant

Disorders

13. Improving the Capacity to Treat Depression Using Talking Therapies: Setting a Positive Clinical Psychology Agenda
Barnaby D. Dunn and Henrietta Roberts

14. Don t Worry, Be Happy: Toward a Positive Clinical Psychology for Anxiety Disorders
Philip C. Watkins and Andrew Pereira

15. A Growth Perspective on Posttraumatic Stress
Elizabeth L. Addington, Richard G. Tedeschi and Lawrence G. Calhoun

16. A Positive Mood Cannot Be Too Positive : How to Utilise Positive and Negative Clinical Psychology in Bipolar Disorder
Warren Mansell

17. Positive Clinical Psychology and the Promotion of Happiness, Compassion and Autonomy in People with Psychosis
Paul Hutton

18. An Integrative Model of Personality Strengths and Weaknesses
Thomas A. Widiger

19. Resilience and Protective Factors in Childhood and Adolescence
Peter J. Taylor

20. Suicidal Behaviour: The Power of Prospection
Andrew K. MacLeod

Positive Psychology Interventions in Clinical Practice

21. Positive Psychological Interventions: An Overview
Acacia C. Parks and Liudmila Titova

22. Positive Psychotherapy: Clinical Application of Positive Psychology
Tayyab Rashid

23. Positive Activity Interventions For Mental Health Conditions: Basic Research and Clinical Applications
Lilian J. Shin and Sonja Lyubomirsky

24. Interventions to Promote Forgiveness Are Exemplars of Positive Clinical Psychology
Everett L. Worthington, Jr., Brandon J. Griffin, Caroline R. Lavelock, Chelsea M. Hughes, Chelsea L. Greer, Steven J. Sandage and Mark S. Rye

25. Mindfulness in Positive Clinical Psychology
Shauna Shapiro, Sarah de Sousa and Carley Hauck

26. Well–being Therapy
Giovanni A. Fava

27. Quality of Life Therapy
Michael B. Frisch

Reinterpreting Existing Therapies

28. Person–Centered Psychology An Organismic Positive Approach to the Problems of Living and Helping People Flourish
Pete Sanders and Stephen Joseph

29. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Contextual View of Positive and Negative as Applied to Positive Clinical Psychology
Timothy K. Feeney and Steve C. Hayes

30. Schema Therapy
Christopher Taylor and Arnoud Arntz

Index

Alex M. Wood is Professor and Director of the Behavioral Science Centre at Stirling Management School, University of Stirling, UK. He is also Honorary Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Manchester, UK. He is credited with founding positive clinical psychology, and he has published more than 100 papers related to well–being in leading journals across psychology, medicine, and economics. He guest edited the special issue of Clinical Psychology Review that first introduced positive clinical psychology to the mainstream.

Judith Johnson is a Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer at the University of Leeds and the Bradford Institute of Health Research, UK. Her research is focused on understanding and supporting the development of wellbeing and resilience, and how this can be applied in healthcare settings to improve treatments and service delivery. She is co–editor of Case Formulation in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: The Treatment of Challenging and Complex Cases (second edition, 2015).