Assignment Task:
Applied Final Project: Positive Psychology in Action Proposal
This assignment will leverage your curiosity. It will tap into your ideas for applying positive psychology in daily life. It will invite you to explore how to connect those applications to others within your community.
The Positive Psychology in Action Proposal is an integrative assignment in support of the three learning outcomes for the course:
1. Analyze the components of positive psychology that contribute to the health and well-being of individuals, organizations, and environments. Need Assignment Help?
2. Use critical thinking, skeptical inquiry, research methodologies, and appropriate instruments to analyze scientific evidence to differentiate positive psychology from other psychological approaches
3. Evaluate positive psychology theories and theorists to determine appropriate and ethical applications and interventions within the individual as well as organizational and multicultural settings
The Positive Psychology in Action Proposal (PPA):
Objective: Create Positive Psychology in Action (PPA), demonstrating how a positive psychology construct/theory can be applied in a practical manner to bring about a positive impact for others. Examples of practicality include educational programs, video, podcasts, and interventions.
To achieve this, you will build your knowledge of the construct/theory, and then create a proposal for putting your positive psychology product into action. Because this is not a formal empirical study and no data is to be collected, you are presenting a proposal for your Positive Psychology in Action product, program, or intervention.
*A formal study (where the proposed materials and/or procedures are put into practice, monitored, and evaluated) requires ethics approval from the CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY Institutional Review Board. Those actions reach beyond the scope of this course.
Instructions: Below are all the steps you will need to take in order to create your PPAs*:
1. Review what we have covered in class.
2. Choose one or more positive psychology constructs or theories that you would like to explore and apply in your life (e.g., constructs: altruism, gratitude, forgiveness, mindfulness or e.g., theories: the broaden and build theory of positive emotions)
3. Create the proposal (i.e. educational program, video, podcast, or intervention)
4. Write and submit for grading an APA formatted proposal document.