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Much of what I have encountered in Positive Psychology (with a capital "P"; i.e. the relatively young field) falls into two categories:

1. Incorporating things from previous research that are relatively uncontentious (e.g. flow

2. Tainted by academic fraud (e.g. Critical Positivity Ratio)

Given that you can have #1 without defining a new field of psychology, I associate the field of Positive Psychology with #2.

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In essence, practicing positive psychology, to us, means that we focus on the positive attributes and strengths of an individual - not on their pathology as in "traditional" approaches. It also means that we focus on helping our members achieve higher levels of well-being and personal growth as oppose to focusing solely on the symptoms relief.

Our key approach has been providing a mix of psychoeducational coaching interventions to enhance positive attributes in combination with other help our members can obtain - and not on short-term prescribed psychotherapies or medication as a sole mode of intervention.

Thank you for explaining more. Positive Psychology as a field is very wide, with different schools of thought within it; the most important aspect to us being that we focus on the Strength-Based vs. Disability Model of Neurodiversity. The school of thought we are part of is equally applicable to other allied fields which help those with ADHD achieve a better quality of life - psychiatry, clinical and psychotherapeutic services.

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