TY - JOUR
T1 - Collective wellbeing and posttraumatic growth during COVID-19
T2 - how positive psychology can help families, schools, workplaces and marginalized communities
AU - Waters, Lea
AU - Cameron, Kim
AU - Nelson-Coffey, S. Katherine
AU - Crone, Damien L.
AU - Kern, Margaret L.
AU - Lomas, Tim
AU - Oades, Lindsay
AU - Owens, Rhea L.
AU - Pawelski, James O.
AU - Rashid, Tayyab
AU - Warren, Meg A.
AU - White, Mathew A.
AU - Williams, Paige
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Positive psychology approaches have been shown to play a vital role in protecting mental health in times of challenge and are, therefore, important to include when studying the psychological outcomes of COVID-19. While existing research has focused on individual psychological health, this paper focuses on collective wellbeing and collective posttraumatic growth, with the aim of more clearly identifying the positive experiences and potential for positive growth for key institutions in our society during the pandemic. A range of positive psychology interventions for families, schools, workplaces, and clinical psychology are presented. The paper then considers how three broad-reaching phenomena existing in our wider society (i.e., arts and culture, eco-connection, and wellbeing literacy) can be used to boost collective wellbeing. A positive systems approach to understand civilian responses to the pandemic together with an examination of the role that positive psychology can play in supporting marginalized groups are also discussed.
AB - Positive psychology approaches have been shown to play a vital role in protecting mental health in times of challenge and are, therefore, important to include when studying the psychological outcomes of COVID-19. While existing research has focused on individual psychological health, this paper focuses on collective wellbeing and collective posttraumatic growth, with the aim of more clearly identifying the positive experiences and potential for positive growth for key institutions in our society during the pandemic. A range of positive psychology interventions for families, schools, workplaces, and clinical psychology are presented. The paper then considers how three broad-reaching phenomena existing in our wider society (i.e., arts and culture, eco-connection, and wellbeing literacy) can be used to boost collective wellbeing. A positive systems approach to understand civilian responses to the pandemic together with an examination of the role that positive psychology can play in supporting marginalized groups are also discussed.
KW - Pandemic
KW - collective wellbeing
KW - covid-19
KW - families
KW - marginalized communities
KW - positive psychology
KW - posttraumatic growth
KW - schools
KW - workplaces
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U2 - 10.1080/17439760.2021.1940251
DO - 10.1080/17439760.2021.1940251
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85142125915
SN - 1743-9760
VL - 17
SP - 761
EP - 789
JO - Journal of Positive Psychology
JF - Journal of Positive Psychology
IS - 6
ER -