PBTA Lifetime Achievement Award and Student Poster Session
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr. Martin Seligman
"Positive Psychology"
MARTIN SELIGMAN, Ph.D.
Director, Positive Psychology Network
Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Distinguished Founding Fellow, Academy of Cognitive Therapy
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Student Poster Session
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM: PBTA Lifetime Achievement Award and Lecture by Dr. Seligman
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Student Poster Award Ceremony and Reception
Location
Drexel University
Mitchell Auditorium
Bossone Research Enterprise Center
32nd and Market Streets
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Admission (to be paid at the door):
Free for PBTA members and LaSalle faculty, staff, and students; $25 for non-members; $10 for non-member students
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Description of the Program:
Positive Psychology is the study of four modes of “happiness:” the Pleasant Life, The Engaged Life, the Meaningful Life, & the Achieving Life. Each of these is separately measurable and each is buildable. A “Full Life” has all these elements although there are serious tensions among them. I suggest that psychology in the coming decade will supplement its focus on healing mental illness with a new focus on understanding and building what makes life worth living. Positive education will become another focus, teaching the skills of Positive Psychology in secondary schools, to prevent depression and help to build lifelong happiness among young people.
OBJECTIVES:
1. Learn about the sub-disciplines of Positive Psychology
2. Learn about interventions that increase well being
3. Learn about the outcome studies on Positive Education
Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D., works on positive psychology, learned helplessness, depression, and on optimism and pessimism. He is currently Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is well known in academic and clinical circles and is a best-selling author. His bibliography includes twenty books and 200 articles on motivation and personality. Among his better-known works are Learned Optimism (Knopf, 1991), What You Can Change & What You Can't (Knopf, 1993), The Optimistic Child (Houghton Mifflin, 1995), Helplessness (Freeman, 1975, 1993) and Abnormal Psychology (Norton, 1982, 1988, 1995, with David Rosenhan.
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