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Learning Objectives
Identify the key benefits of happiness to our physical health, emotional well-being, interpersonal relationships, and job performance.
Explain key barriers to wellbeing including the negativity bias and genetic factors that may impede a persons happiness.
Employ research-backed approaches to effectively treat common mental health struggles, drawn from positive psychology and other strength-based methods.
Administer specific practices to cultivate gratitude, compassion, self-compassion, awe, and connection and describe how to integrate these effectively into treatment.
Identify fourteen research-backed principles linked to psychological wellbeing.
Explore specific areas of the brain linked to positive emotional states, and learn techniques to increase neuronal firing to these regions in order to create lasting change through the process of positive neuroplasticity.