The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Positive Psychological Interventions -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- References -- Part I Established Areas of Intervention -- 1 Gratitude Interventions: A Review and Future Agenda -- What Is Gratitude and How Is It Measured? -- Findings from the Science of Gratitude -- Interventions to Increase Gratitude in Adults -- Counting blessings -- Three Good Things -- Grateful self-reflection -- The "Gratitude Visit" -- Summary of gratitude interventions -- Interventions to Increase Gratitude in Children and Adolescents -- Counting blessings -- The "Gratitude Visit" -- Learning schematic help appraisals -- Next Steps for Gratitude Interventions -- Use of gratitude in clinical therapy -- Use of booster sessions to strengthen interventions -- Consideration of moderators in interventions -- Infusing gratitude into existing school curricula -- Modern forms of communication and interaction -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 2 Positive Psychological Interventions for Promoting Forgiveness: History, Present Status, and Future Prospects -- Introduction -- Evidence-based benefits of forgiving -- Other uses of forgiveness interventions -- Descriptions of Forgiveness Interventions -- Group interventions -- Interventions to promote forgiveness in couples -- Do Forgiveness Interventions Work? -- Efficacious Components of Forgiveness Interventions -- Unresolved Questions about Forgiveness Interventions -- What are the theories of change? -- Are common factors at play in forgiveness interventions? -- How does forgiveness relate to other virtues? -- Do forgiveness interventions do more than promote forgiveness? -- Who responds to forgiveness interventions? -- Are cultural adaptations required? -- Conclusion -- References.

3 Nurturing the Capacity to Savor: Interventions to Enhance the Enjoyment of Positive Experiences -- Conceptual and Empirical Background to Savoring -- Conceptual background -- Empirical background -- Interventions Intended to Enhance Enjoyment of Positive Experiences -- Past-Focused Savoring Interventions -- Thinking about positive events -- Positive reminiscence -- Recalling three positive daily events -- Basking in achievement/acknowledging the role of others -- Reflecting on recent personal acts of kindness -- Present-Focused Savoring Interventions -- Increasing the use of savoring strategies -- Adopting a positive focus -- Taking mindful photographs -- Engaging in daily savoring exercises -- Enhancing active-constructive communications -- Future-Focused Savoring Interventions -- The power of positive imagination -- The benefits of scarcity -- A Supplementary Meta-Analysis -- Recommendations and Future Directions -- Designing new interventions -- Unresolved Issues and Concluding Thoughts -- Acknowledgment -- References -- 4 Strengths Interventions: Current Progress and Future Directions -- An Overview of the Strengths Perspective -- Various Approaches to Conceptualizing and Assessing Strengths -- Strengths as Developed Talents: The Gallup Model -- Strengths as Elements of Character: The Values in Action Model -- The Current Nature of Strengths Interventions -- Scope of This Chapter -- Review of Existing Strengths Intervention Research -- Strengths interventions in educational settings -- Strengths interventions in the workplace -- Recommendations for Practice -- Recommendation 1: Conceptualize strengths as dynamic capacities that can be developed, not as fixed entities that are either present or absent.

Recommendation 2: Remember that strengths are manifested in relationship with each other rather than in isolation, and that they exist in degrees rather than as qualities that an individual either possesses or lacks -- Recommendation 3: Design strengths interventions by first delineating the desired outcomes and then integrating empirically supported strategies for their attainment into the intervention plan -- Recommendation 4: Create a strengths intervention plan that contains elements that are designed to reinforce learning over a long time horizon -- Suggestions for Future Research -- References -- 5 Promoting Meaning and Purpose in Life -- Meaning-Oriented Interventions -- Toward New Approaches -- A theoretical model of meaning in life -- A new approach to promoting meaning -- Promoting comprehension -- Promoting purpose -- Future Directions for Meaning-Enhancing Interventions -- References -- 6 Empathy-Related Interventions -- What Is Empathy? -- Antecedents -- Processes -- Intrapersonal outcomes -- Interpersonal outcomes -- Summary -- Empathy Interventions -- Perspective taking -- Instructional approaches -- Audio/visual media -- Skills training -- Empathy Interventions: What Works? -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II New and Emerging Areas of Intervention -- 7 Creativity as a Target and Tool for Positive Interventions -- Creativity as a Target for Positive Interventions -- The intrinsic value of creativity -- Approaches to the Enhancement of Creativity -- Cognitive/ideational approaches -- Social/motivational approaches -- Personality approaches -- Two applied examples in business and education -- Creativity as a Tool for Increasing Well-Being -- Building Creativity-Based Positive Interventions -- An example of a positive intervention - exploring your creative potential -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References.

8 Do Good Things Come to Those Who Wait?: Patience Interventions to Improve Well-Being -- Historical Perspectives on the Virtue of Patience -- Defining and Discriminating Patience -- What patience is not -- Patience and Well-Being -- Empirically Tested Patience Interventions -- Future Directions for Patience Interventions Research -- Isolating patience-increasing activities -- Improved control conditions for social desirability -- Is patience a buffer against negative emotions or a producer of positive emotions? -- Moving beyond individual well-being: interpersonal outcomes -- Possible Applications of Patience Interventions -- Note -- References -- 9 Courage Interventions: Future Directions and Cautions -- Definition -- Types of Courage -- Possible Models Leading to Interventions -- Encouragement from others -- Self-encouragement -- Caution: low or negative value goals -- Caution: genuine risk -- Caution: research outcome concerns -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 Humor Intervention Programs -- What Is Humor? -- Measurement Issues -- Early Humor Intervention Studies -- The 7 Humor Habits Program -- Home play and humor log exercises -- Review of research testing the impact of the 7HHP -- Use of the 7 Humor Habits Program in clinical practice -- Considerations for Future Humor Intervention Research -- Does pre-intervention sense of humor impact the effectiveness of the 7HHP? -- Can brief humor interventions be effective? -- How much engagement in training activities is needed? -- Can morally good forms of humor be promoted? -- From boosting resilience to well-being and flourishing? -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- 11 Enacting Flow and Student Engagement in the College Classroom -- Flow Theory and Student Engagement -- Research on Flow in Educational Settings -- Toward Interventions to Facilitate Flow and Engagement in Learning.

The Study -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- Facilitating Flow in Educational Contexts -- References -- 12 Positive Education and Teaching for Wisdom -- Understanding Wisdom: A Variety of Approaches -- Wisdom Theory in Positive Psychology and the CSV -- Wisdom as intellectual virtue -- Wisdom Theories in the Science of Wisdom -- Wisdom as personality -- Wisdom as pragmatic expertise -- Wisdom as balanced decision-making -- Wisdom as narrative understanding and self-insight -- Summary of theories of wisdom -- Positive Education -- Teaching for Wisdom -- Project Wisdom and WiseSkills -- Sternberg's "balanced" curriculum -- English Teacher Wisdom Project -- Conclusion and Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Part III Areas of Application -- 13 Positive Family Therapy Interventions -- Systems Theory -- Communication Theory -- Social Constructivism -- Positive Family Therapy -- Broaden and Build Theory -- Approach Goals -- Interventions in PFT -- Strengths -- Paraphrasing -- Positive empathy -- Circular questioning -- Capitalization -- Formula First Session Task -- Success finding -- Visualizing success -- The miracle question -- Catching-your-child-being-virtuous -- Family rituals -- Conclusion -- References -- 14 Applications of Positive Psychology to Individual Therapy -- Positive Psychological Therapy Models -- Strengths-Based Counseling -- Strength-Centered Therapy -- Quality of Life Therapy -- Well-Being Therapy -- Hope Therapy -- Positive Psychotherapy -- Individual Client Exercises Informed by Positive Psychology -- Forgiveness exercises -- Gratitude exercises -- Altruism exercises -- Optimism exercises -- A note on using positive psychological interventions and exercises -- Conclusion -- References -- 15 Evidence-Based Coaching as a Positive Psychological Intervention -- What Is Coaching? -- Coaching psychology or evidence-based coaching?.

What Is the Evidence for Evidence-Based Coaching?.