Positive Psychology: What is Cognitive Therapy?

Saturday, July 17, 2021

What is Cognitive Therapy?

Dr. Robert L. Leahy and the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy: https://cognitivetherapynyc.com/

For more of Dr. Robert L. Leahy's videos on worry, click here:
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In this video, the Institute's director, Dr. Robert L. Leahy, provides an accessible introduction to the fundamental ideas involved in cognitive therapy in the AICT podcast for May 2007. Please feel free to subscribe or simply listen to learn more about effective treatments for psychological problems.

https://youtu.be/gdFovvVJpr8

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."