Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of contributors -- Preface -- Established areas of intervention -- Gratitude interventions : a review and future agenda / Tara Lomas, Jeffrey J. Froh, Robert A. Emmons, Anjali Mishra, and Giacomo Bono -- Positive psychological interventions for promoting forgiveness : history, present status, and future prospects / Everett L. Worthington Jr., Nathaniel G. Wade, and William T. Hoyt -- Nurturing the capacity to savor : interventions to enhance the enjoyment of positive experiences / Jennifer L. Smith, Patrick R. Harrison, Jaime L. Kurtz, and Fred B. Bryant -- Promoting meaning and purpose in life / Joo Yeon Shin and Michael F. Steger -- Empathy-related interventions / Mark H. Davis and Ena Begovic -- New and emerging areas of intervention -- Creativity as a target and tool for positive intervention / Marie J.C. Forgeard and Katherine V. Eichner -- Do good things come to those who wait? patience interventions to improve well-being / Sarah A. Schnitker and Justin T. Westbrook -- Courage interventions : future directions and cautions / Cynthia Pury, Charles Starkey, Chad Breeden, Christie Kelley, Hannah Murphy, and Arden Lowndes -- Humor intervention programs / Willibald Ruch and Paul E. McGhee -- Enacting flow and student engagement in the college classroom / David J. Shernoff and Brett Anderson -- Positive education and teaching for wisdom / Michel Ferrari and Christine E. Guthrie -- Areas of application -- Positive family therapy interventions / Collie W. Conoley, Jane Close Conoley, and Marla E. Pontrelli -- Applications of positive psychology to individual therapy / Jeana L. Magyar-Moe -- Evidence-based coaching as a positive psychology intervention / Suzy Green and Gordon B. Spence -- Online positive psychological interventions : state of the art and future directions / Linda Bolier and Katherina Martin Abello -- Resilience interventions for youth / Amy Kranzler, Lindsay Liotta, and Jane Gillham -- Positive social identity interventions : finding a conduit for well-being in stigmatized group memberships / Thomas C. Ball and Michelle R. Nario-Redmond -- Adapting a positive psychology intervention for people with chizophrenia / Piper S. Meyer -- Adapting positive psychology for smoking cessation / Anne M. Day, Elise M. Clerkin, Nichea S. Spillane, and Christopher W. Kahler -- Special considerations -- Making happiness last : using the hedonic adaptation model to extend the success of positive interventions / Katherine Jacobs Bao and Sonja Lyubomirsky -- Person-activity fit in positive psychology interventions / Stephen M. Schueller -- Taking culture into account with positive psychological interventions / Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti -- Dovetailing ethical practice and postitive psychology to promote integrity, industriousness, innovation, and impact / Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick -- Beyond life satisfaction: a scientific approach to well-being gives us much more to measure / Jos L. Duarte -- Positive psychology interventions and self-perceptions : a cautionary tale? / Kasley M. Killam and Young-Hoon Kim -- Act well to be well : the promise of changing personality states to promote well-being / Laura E.R. Blackie, Ann Marie Roepke, Marie J.C. Forgeard, Eranda Jayawickreme, and William Fleeson -- Index.

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