Chapter One
Applied Positive Psychology: A New
Perspective for Professional Practice
P. ALEX LINLEY and STEPHEN JOSEPH
Positive psychology has a research tradition that goes back decades. Yet despite
this rich tradition, many topics that we would describe as within the
scope of positive psychology have typically remained isolated from each
other, lacking any shared language or common identity. The emergence of positive
psychology has highlighted the common traditions of many working in these
areas and has provided a conceptual home for researchers and practitioners interested
in all aspects of optimal human functioning. In viewing the many different
strands of research from which positive psychology is drawn, and seeing
them as sharing a common core identity, psychologists have taken a sustained
and serious interest in the study of human nature as a whole. This rich tradition
provides the foundation on which applied positive psychology rests.
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