Overview
- Offers a new realistic wellbeing paradigm as an alternative to the existing positive psychology paradigm
- Reconnects psychology with ancient and ongoing human knowledge systems
- Is of value to a wide range of popular courses that are currently influenced by positive psychology
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This book provides an introduction to and a dynamic description of a new psychological paradigm that balances the excesses and distortions of the positive psychology paradigm. It offers valuable theoretical and practical content to its readers on the vital need for, nature of and potential for the reality psychology paradigm. It includes concrete steps for this new paradigm to restore the real power of vital psychological knowledge and techniques, which need to be brought back from their association with artificial positivity. This will provide real human benefits, including real mindfulness, real resilience, real behaviour change, and real communication. The book features a presentation of the underlying principles of reality psychology – including the value of a full connection with reality as it really is - rather than as we would like it to be. This will help people thrive in response to as well as survive our great real-life challenges, by develo** a deeply practical understanding of reality psychology knowledge and related practice techniques.
The book provides considerable theoretical and practical benefits to students of a variety of psychological courses, including positive psychology related courses, and also of many other wellbeing related courses. The book also provides valuable benefits to non-student readers – expert and non-expert.
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Keywords
- New perspectives in psychology
- New directions in psychology
- Psychological paradigms
- Positive Psychology issues/ challenges/ problems
- Positive Psychology alternatives
- Reality Psychology
- Psychology and self-knowledge
- Wellbeing issues/ challenges/ problems
- Mindfulness issues/ challenges/ problems
- Resilience issues/ challenges/ problems
- Behaviour change issues/ challenges/ problems
- Connection issues/ challenges/ problems
- Connecting psychological theories and practices
- Psychology and life meaning
Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Stephen McKenzie, PhD, is a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Melbourne. He is contributing to its online education expansion, including by planning, develo** and teaching online courses that help give their students personal and professional success as well as academic success – via improved wellbeing, mindfulness and connection. Stephen is an expert on key components of what he sees as a valuable new psychological paradigm - reality psychology - including mindfulness, wellbeing and connection, and has conducted research, written books and produced courses in these and other reality psychology relevant areas. Stephen has been a pioneer in many new areas of valuable human knowledge including by co-writing an early mindfulness manual, writing an early mindfulness at work book, an introduction to statistical literacy and its value in an increasingly information overcrowded age, a possible next generation of mindfulness – heartfulness, and lead-editing books on online education. Stephen co-developed a large new fully online fourth year psychology course at Monash University and an international online education research program with King’s College, London, developed an online research portal, and received a Dean’s Award for Education Innovation from Monash University in 2019.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reality Psychology
Book Subtitle: A New Perspective on Wellbeing, Mindfulness, Resilience and Connection
Authors: Stephen Paul McKenzie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97170-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97169-4Published: 24 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97172-4Published: 25 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-97170-0Published: 23 March 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 231
Number of Illustrations: 133 b/w illustrations
Topics: Positive Psychology, Psychological Methods/Evaluation, Quality of Life Research