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The students are able to deal with theories of work and health psychology, concepts of positive psychology and as well as corresponding research methods. Practical implications with regard to health and resilience promotion are discussed.

In the course of the changing perspective in psychology during the last decades in the direction of a salutogenetic approach and the focus on prevention, protective individual and organizational factors are becoming increasingly relevant. Resilience research plays a role here. Also the concept of individual character strengths and their role for well-being attracts increasing attention in Positive Psychology. However, previous research established only scarce evidence how character strengths contribute to well-being and health. In the course we will combine existing person-centered approaches from Positive Psychology (e.g. Concept of Character Strenghts, Seligman, 2004) with condition-related approaches from Work and Organizational Psychology and aspects of resilience studies.     

Lectures, short exercices, short written contributions, presentations and discussion

course with continuous assessment (written and oral contribution by participants)

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