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Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification (Hardcover)

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Christopher Peterson (Author), Martin Seligman (Author) "The classification of strengths presented in this book is intended to reclaim the study of character and virtue as legitimate topics of psychological inquiry and..." (more) 
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Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

Pages: 800
Item #: 4317046
ISBN: 978-0-19-516701-6
Publication Date: March 2004
Format: Hardcover
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Your 24 Possible Personal Strengths

Many people feel frustrated because they are not using their personal strengths to make a living or contribute to the world.

If I asked you “what are your personal strengths?” would you be able to answer with conviction? If so, are you already using those strengths in the work that occupies most of your waking hours?

My own answers to those questions tended to be vague, until I came across this excellent framework for identifying personal strengths.

The 24 personal strengths listed here are based on research by psychologists Peterson and Seligman in their book Character Strengths and Virtues.

Personal Strengths of Wisdom and Knowledge

1. Creativity

Do people come to you for novel solutions to tricky problems? Do you enjoy seeking alternative ways of doing things? Is your mind constantly challenging the status quo and looking for a better way?

2. Curiosity

Do you ask lots of questions and stop only when the other person is obviously tired of answering? Have you had your fair share of accidents and injuries because you just had to try something out?

3. Open-Mindedness

Are you able to hold two contradictory thoughts at the same time while others are taking sides? When presented with a radical idea, do you consider it a possibility instead of judging it right away?

4. Love of Learning

Is there always a book in your bag so you can pull it out to read when you have a few spare minutes? Do you get an adrenaline rush from learning new skills or attending classes or seminars?

5. Perspective

Can you see things from different points of view without making a conscious effort to? Do people tend to respond to your thoughtful comments with “I never saw things that way…”?

Personal Strengths of Courage

6. Bravery

Do you readily go where angels fear to tread? When everyone is holding back, are you the one who stands up to volunteer with words like “what the heck” or “you never know until you try”?

7. Persistence

When others are ready to quit, are you the one who encourages them to try just one more time? Have you doggedly worked at a problem until you find the solution instead of giving up or passing the problem on to someone else?

8. Integrity

Have you ever told the truth knowing that it would cost you money, friends, and perhaps your reputation? Do you do the ‘right’ thing all the time, even when no one is watching?

9. Vitality

Do you inject energy into the projects you’re involved in? Do things seem to somehow pick up speed when you around? Do people give more of themselves when you are working alongside them?

Personal Strengths of Humanity

10. Love

When you look at people, do you see what they look like or do you see who they really are? Do you feel a deep appreciation for everyone you meet because each is unique and special?

11. Kindness

Are in incapable of walking past a street busker without dropping a few notes or coins into his box? Have you done good deeds for strangers on a regular basis because you saw the difficult situations they were in?

12. Social intelligence

Can you sense the mood of people in the room the moment you walk into it? Are you able to tell who gets along and who does not after a quick observation? Do people readily ‘click’ with you even when they don’t get along with each other?

Personal Strengths of Justice

13. Citizenship

Are you proud to be a member of an organisation or nation?Are you an ambassador for your company or country? is loyalty to this group very important to you?

14. Fairness

Were you the child who kept saying “that’s not fair”? Have you given up your share of something because you felt it was not right that other people didn’t have the same privilege? Do you see everyone as having equal rights?

15. Leadership

Do people look to you for guidance in chaos or in general? Does a group seem to ‘gel’ only when you’re there to hold it together? Do those in your group excel under your tutelage when they weren’t making it elsewhere?

Personal Strengths of Temperance

16. Forgiveness

Are you able to let go when people have repeatedly hurt you? Do you understand that harbouring a grudge hurts you more than it hurts them? Do you accept the frailty of human nature and allow people space to make mistakes?

17. Humility

Do you constantly learn from other people, even those who are younger or less educated or experienced than you? Can you accept praise graciously while not taking personal credit and walking on air immediately after?

18. Prudence

When given two options, do you usually choose the less risky, less expensive, less high-profile one? Do you tend to view others’ excesses as flamboyant or extravagant, and often advise people to ‘tone down’?

19. Self-Control

Are you able to deny yourself what you want because of a higher purpose or objective? When tempted to spend or eat beyond your plan, can you smile and say no most of the time without feeling deprived?

Personal Strengths of Transcendance

20. Appreciation of Beauty

Do you pause often to take in a view, gaze skywards, or observe animals in motion? Does a sense of awe sweep over you often when you contemplate the vastness of nature and the intimate details of life?

21. Gratitude

Are the words “thank you” on your lips and in your heart practically everyday? Is your reaction to people, events and things one of appreciation and gladness that this wonderful thing came your way?

22. Hope

Can you always see the silver lining when others see only a dark cloud? Is your mantra ‘tomorrow will be better than today’ or ‘don’t worry, everything will be ok’ or ‘things will work out, you’ll see’?

23. Humour

Can you see the lighter side of almost every situation? Do you see the folly of human self-importance? Do people relax around you because you help them to take themselves and life less seriously?

24. Spirituality

Do you feel connected to a source that is higher and deeper than yourself? Are you detached from things of this world? Do you feel that the ‘real’ world is inside you rather than outside?

Shortlist Your Personal Strengths

If you’re like me and feel that many of the 24 strengths apply to you, then you can cross out ‘Humility’ right away. That leaves only 23! ;) Then keep on eliminating those that you think are probable, until you’re left with those you absolutely cannot cross out because they are YOU.

Ideally you should have a list of about 3 to 5 personal strengths to be able to meaningfully work with these. A ’shortlist’ should, after all, be short!

Innate vs Acquired Personal Strengths

There may be some ’strengths’ that you’ve worked hard to acquire. Those are probably skills you have learnt, rather than personal strengths per se.

For example, I had to learn to be grateful. It took practice and became natural only after months of keeping a gratitude journal. However, I never had to learn how to be curious. All my life I’ve wanted to understand, to know how things work, to find the truths of life.

Play to Your Personal Strengths

‘Playing to your strengths’ has a literal as well as a figurative meaning. You’ll know something is a strength when it’s play to you, when you’re enjoying the process, when you would pay to engage in the process.

The figurative meaning is, of course, finding work and pastimes that build on your personal strengths. Patching up your weaknesses may help you level up; playing to your strengths can help you shoot for the stars.

Posted by Daphne | June 23, 2009 | in Work Hard


 

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勇氣心理學:阿德勒觀點的健康社會生活
The Psychology of Courage:An Adlerian Handbook for Healthy Social Living
 
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作者:楊瑞珠&艾倫‧米勒林&馬克‧布雷根
譯者:蒙光俊、簡君倫、郭明仁
出版日期:2010年9月
書系名稱:教育輔導系列
書籍編號:N-093
開數:25開
頁數:320頁(左翻橫排)
CIP:199.65
商品碼:9789576937545
ISBN:9789576937545
【內容簡介】 
「勇氣」是促進個人幸福感與改善世界的動力,我們需要勇氣以面對害怕、克服自身的不適任與缺陷、彼此關心、忍受痛苦,以及幫助我們與自己、家人、社會及全人類和諧共處。
 「勇氣」是指在困難當頭仍冒險前行的意志。本書旨在展現個體心理學(Individual Psychology)創始者阿德勒(Alfred Adler)闡述的「工作、愛與友誼」三項生命任務中,「勇氣」是了解與鍛鍊心理健康的主要推力。作者希望從個體心理學的有利位置,貼近對「勇氣」的概念理解及使用。做為一項心理構件,「勇氣」在阿德勒式積極正向、現象學及務實做法上,對於我們了解人性、家庭的影響,以及我們如何滿於足工作、愛與社會需求的獨特方法,有最好的說明。 
 【作者序】
描繪心理健康生活之藍圖



我們必須了解,勇氣是一種社會功能,因為唯有個體看待自己為群體的一部分時,才能擁有勇氣。在以天下為家的人身上,我們會看到勇氣,因為生命中可接受或不能接受的都屬於他/她;困難是一個人能致力於增進大眾福祉的任務。

──阿德勒(1870-1937)
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為什麼要有一本談論勇氣的書呢?關於美好生活的書難道還不夠多,需要再來一本嗎?關於美好人生,我們知道些什麼?它可能達成嗎?要怎麼做?勇氣是什麼?我們是如何獲得和給予勇氣?當我們面對生活諸多要求而尋求勇氣時,心理學可以提供什麼幫助?

從冷漠到敵意
存在主義哲學家和心理學家認為,二十世紀的通病是冷漠(apathy)。被恐懼和焦慮占據的人們不知所措,他們躲在麻木(affectless)的背後,無法影響(affect)他們的生存環境。類似「不要管我」和「無所謂」的心理態度已經滲入二十一世紀了,本來無聲又憂鬱的冷漠,現已轉變成對自我和他人的敵意。好幾十年前,阿德勒的學生崔克斯(Rudolf Dreikurs)對人們的生活就有相當悲觀的描述:
 人,學了這麼多,卻還是不明白社會生活的基本要求,既不能夠跟家人和諧地相處,也不知道如何教養下一代。如果沒有讓人麻醉的藥物,或不能猴急地追求成功、達成目標,也就不知道該如何享受生命。無私的愛已經是一種消失的藝術;信心,是過時的口號;人與人的關係,只是癡心妄想。

現代生活的問題似乎前所未有地糟糕,無論是在學校、家裡、職場和所屬的社會,害怕支配了我們的思想、感覺與行動。在跨過千禧年以來,不論是地方上或全球性的危害公安罪行迸發,都使我們相信自己無從準備好生活在這個充滿不安的世界裡,更不用提快樂美好的生活,似乎也不可得。

更甚者,我們活在工業化及資本主義的社會裡,在建立道德與價值的過程中有許多混淆和矛盾,而我們生存的時代裡也找不到能協助個體發展與適應社群的支持系統,一切只能靠自己去完成。因此,在情感及社會孤立的狀況下,我們的運作只能架構在害怕之上。

我們渴望預測、掌控社會關係,結果卻剝奪了我們天生就能承受生命本貌的能力。努力求得美好生活的個體雖然立意良善,卻很容易變成比較與競爭需求的犧牲品。正如我們知道生命並不完美,比較和競爭其實藏匿著破壞性感受。那些聲稱我們理應快樂的假設或主張,則與自我中心的流行文化現象直接相關。

從害怕到勇氣
當我們面對著促進個人幸福感與改善世界的挑戰,探討社會生活的勇氣實有其必要。所謂改善世界就是創造一個更美好、更崇尚歸屬感和大眾福祉的世界,然而,勇氣在心理學文獻中卻遭到忽視。接續在「科學世紀」後的二十世紀,被稱為「害怕的世紀」,也稱為「心理學的世紀」。心理學誕生在一個困惑的時代,當時舊社會之共有價值正被科學所取代,而在上個世紀,心理學也無法逃過強勢的資本主義和個人主義的支配。心理學曾經希望能夠促進關懷(care),但是失敗了;相反地,上個世紀的心理學只擅於分析恐懼或害怕,卻不屑於了解勇氣。

心理健康不等同於沒有心理疾病,如果心理學只是指出有無心理疾病,那是不夠的。人們遠比絕大多數心理學理論所描述的更具復原和適應的能力。健康的最佳展現,就是當我們面對不利的生存條件時,仍有最適切的因應方式與發展。個體和大眾的心理健康可以被視為賦予個人能量以追求幸福快樂的建構和特質。因此,心理學應該要欣然採納能提升及預備個體去承擔生活責任的價值觀。在二十一世紀,我們需要有關懷的勇氣,也需要這樣的心理學來幫助我們面對害怕、克服自身的不適任與缺陷、彼此關心、以勇氣與希望來忍受痛苦,以及幫助我們與自己、家人、社會及全人類和諧共處。

社會情懷:冷漠的解藥
在我個人的探究過程中,別具意義的是,我發現人類從一開始有困難便終其一生地努力以求克服。這似乎會導引出一種顯而易見的矛盾,也就是說,不凡的成就常來自勇於克服阻礙,它並非天生才能所使然,反而更可能是才能的缺乏所造就。 ──阿德勒

對阿德勒而言,解除冷漠的答案就在於社群感(community feeling)之內在潛能及後天的培養。社群感是個體心理學的核心概念;而通往幸福的道路(更好的說法是:生活的意義),就是社群感的勇氣。阿德勒認為,健康的社會生活標準取決於個體藉由合作與貢獻所經驗到的歸屬感程度。社群感能鼓舞、裝備我們去勇敢面對生活問題,為自己、也為他人擔負起責任。

阿德勒心理學又被稱為「個體心理學」(Individual Psychology)。「Individual」的希臘原文意指一個人的獨特性。但是,阿德勒心理學是一套社會心理學,它強調個體的延伸和擴大,以及社群感或社會情懷的提升。

全人類的共同關懷
不論勇氣或社會情懷,都不是一個新的概念,若以美德來看,勇氣在東西方文化的人文精神教導中隨處可見。若視群體感為社會的理想倫理或道德,社會情懷便可比擬為基督教義中上帝對世人無條件的愛(agape)、儒家的仁(Ren)、道家思想的和諧,以及佛家玄奧的智慧──禪(Zen)。若把群體感視為個人的人格特質,那麼它就是藉著勇氣及其他有益於我們和他人的社會性態度所共同造就出來的。阿德勒認為,這些態度或人格特質是我們天生的潛能和能力,可經由家庭、學校或其他生活情境來培養。個體心理學可以說是唯一能從內在、人際關係及系統的觀點來了解並造就美德的心理學,阿德勒的此一觀點,讓我們對從心理學的角度來活化社群感的理想,充滿樂觀和希望。

個體心理學提供了最具彈性的架構,而此架構歡迎任何對於「何為勇氣」以及「我們如何運用勇氣讓社會生活更好」的合作性理解。阿德勒以他對女性及兒童的社會平等觀點為人所稱道,他被視為自助(self help)與自我心理學(self-psychology)之父,也被視為認知取向、存在取向、人本取向和正向心理學的先驅者7,阿德勒素有東方的孔子及西方的蘇格拉底之美名。阿德勒的群體和自助思想也深深影響了「戒酒無名會」(Alcoholics Anonymous)的創發和執行。8以上如此豐富的關聯性,使我們有絕佳的機會在本書中發展與編纂超文化的應用性工具,藉以幫助我們發掘自己和他人的內在力量,並鍛鍊勇氣!



Guide to Adlerian books #18The Psychology of Courage: An Adlerian Handbook for Healthy Social Living
 Julia Yang, Alan P Milliren, Mark Blagen (Routledge 2010)

Deeply imbued with thoughtful Adlerian optimism and an egalitarian ethos, this collaborative book also conveys a strong spiritual sense. Professor Yang has a Taiwanese heritage and so it’s apt that she reminds us that in his day Alfred Adler was called “the Confucius of the West”. It is also observed how similar many of Adler’s ideas are to the philosophical system espoused by Socrates, and one of the great contributions made by this handbook is the abundance of examples of Socratic thinking and questioning. The middle part of the book explores courage in relation to the Life Tasks, and in the final section it delivers a finely tuned set of IP tools for helping to facilitate courage via counselling and other helping relationships – not least through Socratic dialogue of course. Overall, this handbook is an excellent example of Adlerian psychology in action.



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