Positive psychology, a science of strengths and virtues : beyond pathology and medication

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Autor(a) principal: Marujo, Helena Águeda
Data de Publicação: 2011
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11067/117
https://doi.org/10.34628/bknj-cs14
Resumo: Revista de Psicologia da Criança e do Adolescente. - ISSN 1647-4120. - N. 3 (2011). - p. 127-145.
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spelling Positive psychology, a science of strengths and virtues : beyond pathology and medicationPsicologia positiva, ciência das forças e virtudes : mais além da patologia e da medicaçãoLa psicología positiva, una ciencia de las fuerzas y virtudes humanas : más allá de la patología y la medicaciónPsicologia positiva - PortugalPsicologia da criançaPsicotrópicosRevista de Psicologia da Criança e do Adolescente. - ISSN 1647-4120. - N. 3 (2011). - p. 127-145.Social sciences in general, and psychology in particular, have mainly approached children and adolescents through a focus on deviation from normality and of incidence of pathology. Even preventive approaches involve the expectation of potential illness. Taking into consideration that the choice for following this trend was based on a good intention of understanding and ending human suffering this has, nevertheless, created a bias in the way we study and intervene with youth. It even interfered with how we think and what we expect from them. Paired with other factors like changes in social, economic, family and school domains, and with the growing power of pharmaceutics, this has led to a tendency of diagnosis in the youngest, with a concomitant impressive raise in percentages of children taking psychotropic medication. The newly positive psychology movement invests otherwise in assessing and optimizing the best in people. Interested in studying humans in terms of strengths, it can be a way to critically analyze, and hopefully reduce, what can be seen as a negative drift - either in terms of overuse of medication for behavioral and emotional problems in children, or of mainly consider treatment instead of facilitation of the best possible outcomes. Disempowered regarding their own diagnosis of psychopathology, and subsequent medication, children and adolescents are more prone to unethical and morally dilemmatic choices from caregivers. The aim of this article is to deconstruct the illness ideology, and to list hopeful alternatives underway in Portugal to deal with contemporary mental health in youth. (Helena Águeda Marujo)2012-10-11T09:39:50Z2012-10-112011-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11067/117http://hdl.handle.net/11067/117https://doi.org/10.34628/bknj-cs14engMarujo, Helena Águeda (2011) - Positive psychology, a science of strengths and virtues : beyond pathology and medication. Revista de Psicologia da Criança e do Adolescente. ISSN 1647-4120. 3 (2011) 127-145.1647-4120Positive psychology, a science of strengths and virtues : beyond pathology and medicationMarujo, Helena ÁguedaMarujo, Helena Águedainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-01-04T01:43:36Zoai:repositorio.ulusiada.pt:11067/117Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T01:24:54.751309Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Positive psychology, a science of strengths and virtues : beyond pathology and medication
Psicologia positiva, ciência das forças e virtudes : mais além da patologia e da medicação
La psicología positiva, una ciencia de las fuerzas y virtudes humanas : más allá de la patología y la medicación
title Positive psychology, a science of strengths and virtues : beyond pathology and medication
spellingShingle Positive psychology, a science of strengths and virtues : beyond pathology and medication
Marujo, Helena Águeda
Psicologia positiva - Portugal
Psicologia da criança
Psicotrópicos
title_short Positive psychology, a science of strengths and virtues : beyond pathology and medication
title_full Positive psychology, a science of strengths and virtues : beyond pathology and medication
title_fullStr Positive psychology, a science of strengths and virtues : beyond pathology and medication
title_full_unstemmed Positive psychology, a science of strengths and virtues : beyond pathology and medication
title_sort Positive psychology, a science of strengths and virtues : beyond pathology and medication
author Marujo, Helena Águeda
author_facet Marujo, Helena Águeda
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Psicologia positiva - Portugal
Psicologia da criança
Psicotrópicos
topic Psicologia positiva - Portugal
Psicologia da criança
Psicotrópicos
description Revista de Psicologia da Criança e do Adolescente. - ISSN 1647-4120. - N. 3 (2011). - p. 127-145.
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