Positive Psychology: The Teen Girl Brain: Insights Into What Makes Us Women

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The Teen Girl Brain: Insights Into What Makes Us Women

Beginning two years before puberty and continuing until the late teen and early adult years, the female brain undergoes massive growth and changes in circuitry. This is true for boys too--but in different brain circuits than girls. Dr. Louann Brizendine shares new findings in the teen girl brain and various strategies being developed to help navigate this special stage of a female's life. Series: "Women's Health Today" [4/2006] [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 11112]

Positive Psychology given credence by Academia:

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Commentators on the subject Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, note that:

"The field of positive psychology at the subjective level is about valued subjective experiences: well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past); hope and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (in the present).

At the individual level, it is about positive individual traits: the capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill, aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, future mindedness, spirituality, high talent, and wisdom.

At the group level, it is about the civic virtues and the institutions that move individuals toward better citizenship: responsibility, nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation,tolerance, and work ethic."