Foster 1 Jordan Foster Ms. Ingram English 1102.24 November 27, 2012 Annotated Bibliography Aspinwall, Lisa G.

, and Richard G. Tedeschi. The Value of Positive Psychology For Health Psychology: Progress And Pitfalls In Examining The Relation Of Positive Phenomena To Health. Annals Of Behavioral Medicine 39.1 (2010): 4-15. Academic Search Complete. Web. 14 Sept. 2012. This authors main focus is to explain how a positive mind-set leads to goals and values, thus providing a healthy lifestyle. This articles focus is to explain and provide examples of a healthy lifestyle by stating that by first using preventative health behaviors a patient will ultimately be healthy. This article is written by various scholars with PhDs in the field and includes others in the field that confronts certain claims, but come to a conclusion at the end. Many parts of this article provides factual information about positive psychology and the positive effects on health, but also raises different questions to be answered as this field progresses. The audience of this article is mostly likely scholars in the field of positive psychology or colleagues interested in the new subfield in psychology: positive psychology. These scholars are interested in the connection between an individual being positive and their health.

Foster 2 By using positive psychology the patient will develop goals and values that positively correlate with preventative behaviors such as not smoking, exercising, not developing depression, and self-care. An example that I plan to use is the fact that being positive about life helps to decrease stress and positively affect the immune systems function, proven in this article. The most compelling argument in this article, is the explanation of how a sick patient confronting death, may use positive psychology to turn the experience into a more meaningful one. By doing this, the patient may develop intrinsic goals that will result in the patient having much less anxiety about the illness. Less anxiety correlates with a healthier immune system response. A healthier immune system can positively affect the progress of the patients sickness.

Biswas-Diener, Robert. Positive Psychology as Social Change. London, New York: Springer. 2011. Print. This book is edited by Robert Biswas-Diener. He researches well-being and is the program director for the Center of applied Positive Psychology (UK). This source also incorporates opinions and research from other leaders in positive psychology from eight different countries. The audiences are scholars or individuals interested in positive psychology and its positive effects, especially toward decreasing the chance of developing emotional disorders. I plan to focus on the claim that it is important when practicing positive psychology to not only focus on fixing the negative aspects of life, but also focus on what is good in life. When focusing on what is good in life, it helps to promote what is best for us. This source also makes great claims about positive psychology and how it can help prevent emotional disorders. Positive psychology practices help to improve behaviors, lifestyles, and coping skills. These positive influences on important qualities definitely have an influence on emotional disorders. Both

Foster 3 positive and negative emotional qualities have an influence on mental health. Focusing on the negatives in life provoke stress and unhappiness, which influences the progressing of depression. Concentrating on the positive in life, help to promote a healthy mental state, this also helps to avoid emotional disorders. Joseph, Stephen and P. Alex Linley. Positve Psychology in Practice. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004. Print. Positive psychology in Practice incorporates an extreme amount of contributors with various backgrounds and experiences in psychology. A large percentage of the contributors to this book have PhDs and are university professors. With such a diverse background of writers who developed this book to explain many different aspects of positive psychology, the reader can get a firm and detailed analysis of the effects of positive psychology on health and wellbeing. The writers hope to appeal to an audience of individuals or scholars who want to get more empirical evidence that proves the correlation between practicing positive psychology, developing goals, and avoiding developing depression. The chapters Value Pathway to Well-Being: Healthy Values, Valued Goal Attainment, and Environment Congruence and Positive Psychology and Health Psychology: A Fruitful Liaison, are extremely valuable in describing the effects of positive psychology on health and well-being. These chapters incorporate many research studies that help to prove the helpful connection between having individual goals or values, which is a part of the positive psychology practice, and the positive effect on well-being. These chapters explain the positive correlation between intrinsic goals, which provides a higher self-esteem and virtue. They also explain the

Foster 4 connection between intrinsic goals and the lower frequency of physical symptoms and depression. Schueller, Stephen M. Promoting Wellness: Integrating Community And Positive Psychology. Journal Of Community Psychology 37.7 (2009): 922-937. Academic Search Complete. Web. 14 Sept. 2012. This article explaining the importance of positive psychology comes from the Journal of Community Psychology, which is written by Stephen Schueller who is associated with the University of Pennsylvania. This article explains the importance of individual positive psychology, while tying in the concept of community psychology and how it is just as important but is sometimes overlooked. The audience is meant to appeal to communities that are interested in bettering their neighborhood and bringing the community together by using positive psychology. The author also tries to convince the reader to agree with his perspective of bringing positive psychology into the community. He explains how positive psychology has improved individual wellness, and how spreading information about positive psychology to communities can also help promote community wellness. By strengthening a community by using positive psychology, the community will experience togetherness, develop community goals, equality, meaning, and purpose. All of these qualities would obviously help decrease crime in the community, keep everyone positive, and keep goals always waiting to be met. He also proves according to a research study, that positive psychology in the community also leads to economic progress. The less, crime stress, and goal achievements within the community, the more positive wellness and health will be promoted.

Foster 5 Communities that promote being positive and reaping from the benefits, help to increase wellness and health within the individual as well. Seligman, Martin. Flourish. New York, NY: Free Press, 2011. Print. This book written by Martin Seligman, PhD. He explains the details of positive psychology and the connection this practice has with individual wellness. He is very supported in his work in positive psychology by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, and many more accredited organizations and foundations. He is also a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. This book is a great resource for explaining the effects of practicing positive psychology because it incorporates many case studies that explain depressed patients that begin to practice positive psychology, and how they began to experience positive effects of the practice. The audience for this book are individuals who need encouragement and proof that positive psychology can positively affect their life. While other sources explain what positive psychology is, this source explains the steps and different exercise that positive psychologist use to treat their depressed patients. These accredited, numerous cases studies and actual practices of positive psychology, will help to establish ethos in the final paper. Delving deeper into a patients depression and their practice of positive psychology exercises, helps validate the various positive effects of positive psychology.
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Positive Psychology Center. University of Pennsylvania, 2007. Web. Sept. 2011 This source is associated with The Positive Psychology Center at The University of

Pennsylvania. This center encourages research, training, and the promotion of positive psychology. This organization thoroughly explains the details and effects of individual, positive psychology practices. The audience is likely related to students at the University of Pennsylvania

Foster 6 who are interested in researching the effects of positive psychology. This source is trying to appeal to scholars who are interested in researching, training, and promoting positive psychology. This source explains all the goals that positive psychology incorporates into exercises and practices. These goals vary from teaching the practices of positive psychology and incorporating positive psychology into communities, organizations, individuals, and communities in order to flourish. Focusing on incorporating positive psychology into counseling centers is also supportive in encouraging their patients personal strengths. The organization explains how incorporating positive psychology into business and organizations, helps strengthen productivity and satisfaction within the company. This source is helpful because it not only focuses on individual positive psychology practices, which is normally associated with positive psychology, but also focuses on the practice in companies and communities. -