How are Positive Psychology and Health Psychology articulated?

• Autor(a) principal: Figueiredo, Camilla Vieira de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Moura , Hysla Magalhães de, Rezende, Alessandro Teixeira, Moizéis, Heloísa Bárbara Cunha, Guedes, Italo de Oliveira, Curvello, Roberta Pereira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/12288
• topic: Psicología Positiva; Psicología de la Salud; Literatura de revisión.; Psicologia Positiva; Psicologia em Saúde; Revisão de literatura.; Positive Psychology; Health Psychology; Review literature.

This article aimed to discuss the interface between Positive Psychology and Health Psychology, highlighting the relevance of studies and interventions on positive aspects and favorable to the full functioning and development of human beings. To this end, a narrative review of the scientific literature was carried out on how these areas are theoretically articulated. As a result, the literature has shown that the interest in studying human qualities, motivations, and potentials has increased in recent years in Brazil and worldwide and that this is due in large part to the advances promoted by the field of Positive Psychology. This area has marked a gradual change in the way of understanding individuals and their intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships, proposing a balance in addressing the positive and negative aspects of human conduct, since historically Psychology has given more emphasis to the investigation of the latter. In this way, Positive Psychology offers a more in-depth look at the protective and preventive factors of human health. In this sense, it is argued that Health Psychology is articulated with Positive Psychology and that both assume perspectives of action research and psychological intervention to promote health and biopsychosocial well-being, as well as reducing and preventing pathological symptoms.