Description

This course includes the Positive Health Foundations for Health Practitioners videos (course 1a), as well as an interactive workshop. The workshop materials will be launched as a self-paced online course on July 15, 2023. Intensive workshops are also provided intermittently. The workshop guides participants to develop case-based experience with positive psychology exercises, assessments, and prescriptions, provides science reviews, highlights health professional competencies in the field, and discusses practical applications of positive psychology interventions for self-care and patient care. Participants who wish to earn a certificate are asked to submit responses to self-reflection exercises and can request to receive feedback.

Upon completion of both the Positive Health Foundations for Health Practitioners video course (1A) and submission of all the workshop exercises (1B),which are combined here as course 1C, participants will earn a Certificate of Completion in Positive Health Clinical Practice. This certificate is an opportunity to join a growing community of practitioners who stand out in practice excellence by grounding their clinical work in a comprehensive healthy lifestyle approach. The comprehensive approach facilitates positive health – a state of health and wellbeing beyond that achieved by addressing traditional risk factors and integrating additional, independent protective health factors.

Learning Objectives

• Summarize the role of positivity psychology in health care practice.
• Examine the science of the impact of positive psychology on health.
• Examine strategies for integrating positive psychology into health care practice.
• Apply positive psychology activities, exercises, and clinical approaches to promote emotional well-being, physical health, and healthy behaviors.
• Develop action steps to personally achieving and sustaining a comprehensive healthy lifestyle, including positive psychology activities.
• Develop actions steps for clinical practice changes grounded in positive psychology that will facilitate comprehensive healthy lifestyles for patients.
• Conduct practical applications for incorporating positive psychology principles and strategies into health care.