As president of the American Psychological Association in 1998, I organized researchers
and practitioners to work on building well-being, not just on the traditional task of reducing ill …

Organizations have increasingly sought to adopt resilience‐building programmes to prevent
absenteeism, counterproductive work behaviour, and other stress‐related issues. However …

Past research purporting to study employee resilience suffers from a lack of conceptual
clarity about both the resilience construct and the methodological designs that examine …

Remediating deficits and managing disabilities has been a central preoccupation for clinical
psychologists. Positive Psychology, in contrast, is concerned with the enhancement of …

A ground-breaking argument for better treatment of mental health from Richard Layard
(author of Happiness) and David M. Clark. Britain has become a world leader in providing …

INTRODUCTION: Stress Management Training programs are increasingly being adopted in
the military field for resilience empowerment and primary stress prevention. In the last …

The psychological well-being of employees has significant primary and secondary effects on
organizational performance and profitability. Despite this importance, the leadership, and …

Optimism has a checkered reputation. Consider Voltaire's (1759) Dr. Pangloss, who
blathered that this is the best of all possible worlds, or Porter's (1913) Pollyanna, who …

Objective: This group-randomized control trial examined the efficacy of guided coping and
emotion regulatory self-reflection as a means to strengthen resilience by testing the effects of …

Since the description of catastrophizing by Ellis (Reason and emotion in psychotherapy.
Lyle Stuart, Oxford, 1962) as a general factor in psychopathology, numerous studies have …