By Kate Hefferon
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This new textbook combines a breadth of data approximately confident psychology with reflective questions, severe remark and recent examine. it really is written in a witty, attractive and modern demeanour and includes:
- Personal improvement exercises that will help you meld jointly study and alertness
- Mock essay questions to get essay writing going
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- Measurement tools featuring well known optimistic psychology instruments
- Time out bins on key concerns, techniques and thinkers
- Chapter summaries that will help you payment their realizing
- Review questions to augment your learning
Positive Psychology is vital examining for college kids taking modules in confident psychology and overall healthiness, and also will be of curiosity to scholars of utilized, training and activities psychology, in addition to psychologists, coaches, counsellors and researchers drawn to this burgeoning field.
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