Routledge International Handbook of Positive Health Sciences : Positive Psychology and Lifestyle Medicine Research, Theory and Practice (Paperback)

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Foreword

1 Positive health: An Emerging New Construct

2 Lifestyle medicine breakthroughs

3 Positive psychology breakthroughs

4 Flourishing from head to toe: An interdisciplinary approach

5 Character strengths and positive health

6 Do our relationships make us healthier? Physiological correlates of social connections and close relationships

7 The power of positive emotions

8 Resilient grieving: How can the field of positive health better support those coping with loss?

9 Optimism, a conceptual complexity but a health resource?

10 Psychobiotics, gut health and the promise of positive psychology

11 Applications to self/self-care/self-coaching, role-modelling

12 Positive health interventions: An emerging concept

13 People may have many wishes but if they lose their health, they only have one wish, to become healthy again

14 Positive health coaching: Adopting a dialogical approach to health and wellbeing

15 Person?nature fit: Fostering well-being through nature

16 Arts as medicine: Using art interventions to promote health and wellbeing

17 Digital positive health Platforms, supported by artificial intelligence, measured using wearable devices

18 Motivation; the self, the stick, and the carrot

19 Positive psychology for health equity

20 Applying positive psychology and the pillars of lifestyle medicine