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Quality of Life Therapy: Applying a Life Satisfaction Approach to Positive Psychology and Cognitive Therapy [Paperback]

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“This book defines an approach to well-being and positive psychology, that is state-of-the-art, evidence-based, empirically validated, and an outstanding guide for anyone interested in learning about the practice of positive Psychology or well-being.”
—Ed Diener, the world authority on happiness from the University of Illinois and President of the International Positive Psychology Association.

Endorsed by Christopher Peterson of the University of Michigan and taught in Marty Seligman’s Masters in Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) Program at the University of Pennsylvania, this book teaches a simple, step-by-step method for putting the fields of well-being and positive psychology into practice.   It is a "one-stop shopping" manual with everything you need in one book and with one approach. 

This approach to greater happiness, meaning, and success is “evidence-based” and empirically validated.  It has been successfully tested in three randomized controlled trials, including two NIH-grant funded trials conducted by James R. Rodrigue and his colleagues at Beth Israel and Harvard Medical Centers in Boston.

Quality of Life Therapy also known as Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching  or QOLTC is designed for use by therapists, coaches, organizational change-agents/consultants, and all  professionals who work to improve peoples' well-being.  Many laypersons and clients have found the book useful as well. 

This book explains the "Sweet 16" Recipe for Joy and Success, along with validated interventions for each:

1. Basic Needs or Wealths: Health, Money, Goals-and-Values/Spiritual Life, Self-Esteem

2. Relationships: Love, Friends, Relatives, and Children

3. Occupations-Avocations: Work and Retirement Pursuits, Play, Helping-Service, Learning, Creativity

4. Surroundings: Home, Neighborhood, Community

  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; PAP/CDR edition (December 2, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0471213519
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471213512
  • Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.2 x 10.9 inches
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Quality of Life Therapy: Applying a Life Satisfaction Approach to Positive Psychology and Cognitive Therapy

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND THEORY.

1. Quality of Life Therapy (QOLT): An Introduction.

2. Happiness through the Ages and Sages.

3. QOL Theory.

4. How to Do QOLT.

PART TWO: CORE TECHNIQUES IN QOLT.

5. QOLT Assessment: Integrating QOL with Traditional Health Assessments.

6. Sharing Case Conceptualizations with Clients.

7. The Three Pillars of QOLT: Inner Abundance, Quality Time, and Find a Meaning.

8. Five Paths to Happiness and Other CASIO Techniques.

9. The Tenets of Contentment: A Summary of Key Concepts and Skills in QOLT.

10. Emotional Control and Life Management Skills in Goal Striving.

PART THREE: AREA-SPECIFIC INTERVENTIONS.

11. Goals-and-Values and Spiritual Life.

12. Self-Esteem.

13. Health.

14. Relationships.

15. Work and Retirement.

16. Play.

17. Helping.

18. Learning.

19. Creativity.

20. Money and Standard of Living.

21. Surroundings: Home, Neighborhood, and Community.

22. Relapse Prevention and Maintenance.

References.

Author Index.

Subject Index.

This is a must read book for psychologists who want to integrate psychotherapy, positive psychology, and quality of life research and practice. Although related to traditional psychotherapy approaches, Frisch's QOL therapy makes psychology and QOL relevant to ALL people. This groundbreaking book provides psychologists and related human service providers with a conceptual framework and concrete tools to help all people who desire to enhance the quality of their lives. Grounded in basic psychological and QOL science, the approach extends far beyond existing approaches to life enhancement by providing a broader, but more nuanced multi-domain perspective (e.g., spiritual, work, play, neighborhood, self domains). In this manner, Frisch provides helpers with a more differentiated assessment and intervention approach to improving lives.
By E. S. Huebner
This is not a self-help book. It is not even a psychology book. It is a clinical guide for institutions. Most of the philosophy of this book consists of trite one-liners. It isn't very practical except in a very controlled environment, where the client has alot of time to waste, such as prisons or hospitals, and where the client has absolutely no direction in life whatsoever. For current happiness research that is simple, practical, and enlightening, try reading the paper THE BENEFITS OF FREQUENT POSITIVE AFFECT: DOES HAPPINESS LEAD TO SUCCESS by Sonja Lyubomirsky. For a simple, practical, and a quick fix, I would recommend RATIONAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY by Maxie Maultsby.
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NewBRAND NEW PAPERBACK INTERNET RESOURCE. 275 by 206 mm. With an endorsement by christopher peterson of the university of michigan and forewards by two recognized authorities in positive psychology and cognitive therapyed diener and david a. clarkthis new approach to positive psychology tells clinicians how to bring positive psychology techniques to clinical practice. quality of life therapy also shows clinicians how to expand their practice to pure positive psychology cases and professional groups who do not suffer from clinical or dsm disorders but who nevertheless want to be happier and more successful in life. the book includes 44 positive psychology growth exercises on cd-rom, and 148 happiness prescriptions based on the latest research for use in all areas of life that clients may care about, including life goals-and-values, spiritual life, self-esteem, health, relationsh1ps, work, play, helping, learning, creativity, money, surroundingshome, neighborhood, communityand relapse prevention. the book includes a primer (or quick review of) in beck's latest approach to cognitive therapy along with instructions for integrating it with positive psychology. quality of life therapy has been evaluated as successful in two separate clinical trials conducted at different laboratories with clinically depressed and lung transplantation patients. for example, see: rodrigue, j. r., baz, m.a., widows, m.r., & ehlers, s.l. (2005). a randomized evaluation of quality of life therapy with patients awaiting lung transplantation. american journal of transplantation, volume 5, #10, 2425-2432. (Paperback Internet resource) $72.24
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