My Best Self in the Past, Present or Future: Results of Two Randomized Controlled Trials

Carrillo, Alba; Etchemendy, Ernestina; Baños, Rosa

doi:10.1007/s10902-020-00259-z

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“…Particularly, acceptance (i.e., openness to change) and persistence are the keys for the survival from and the success in post-secondary education despite struggles with mental health problems. Similar characteristics were also found crucial in maintaining mental health among the general population with mental illnesses (e.g., Carrillo et al, 2021;Flannigan et al, 2021;Jiang et al, 2022). Outside of optimism (or having hope), acceptance, and persistence, Edward et al (2009) also found that the resilient lived with meaning and meaningful relationships in their lives, understood their mental illnesses, and felt a sense of universality in the context of suffering from mental illnesses.…”

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Facilitating the coping and development of college students with mental disorders: a positive clinical psychology approach

Hu,

Huang,

Yao

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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In serving college students with mental disorders, on-campus mental health professionals have been lacking integrative theoretical frameworks to guide their missions of prevention, remedy, and development facilitation. In the current paper, we propose the positive clinical psychology as a theoretically and practically valuable framework for these missions by narratively reviewing the preventive, remedial, and developmental mechanisms derived from the theory and summarizing the most recent empirical evidence that supports each mechanism. We further discuss why and how these mechanisms and findings can be applied to on-campus mental health services to facilitate the resilience and optimal development of college students with mental disorders. Particularly, the use of resilience-focused and strength-based intervention strategies are promoted for services.

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Section: Facilitating Csmd's Resiliencementioning

confidence: 68%

Facilitating the coping and development of college students with mental disorders: a positive clinical psychology approach

Hu,

Huang,

Yao

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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“…Wellenzohn et al ( 2016 ) assessed a past, present, or future time focus of three ‘funny things’, finding that all three time foci increased happiness and reduced depressive symptoms, but the past focus was better at increasing happiness and present superior was better at reducing depressive symptoms. Additionally, Carrillo et al ( 2021 ) compared the effectiveness of individuals’ writing about their best past self, best present self, or best future self. All three interventions increased well-being compared to the control but there were no differences between the three interventions, suggesting that time-orientation does not always influence effectiveness.…”

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confidence: 99%

Nostalgia, Gratitude, or Optimism: The Impact of a Two-Week Intervention on Well-Being During COVID-19

Dennis

Ogden

2022

J Happiness Stud

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Research indicates that brief 2-min positive psychology interventions (PPIs) increase well-being during COVID-19 lockdowns. The present study extended this to assess the effectiveness over two-weeks. Participants (n = 150) were randomly allocated to one of three PPIs; nostalgia, gratitude, best possible self (BPS), or control. The interventions were slightly adapted for the lockdown and were completed three times, every seven days over two-weeks. Well-being measures were completed immediately after the first intervention (T1), after the next two interventions (T2−T3) and at one-week follow-up (T4) (but no baseline measure of well-being was taken). At T1, participants in the nostalgia, gratitude, and BPS intervention had higher self-esteem than those in the control intervention. At T1 and T2, participants in the gratitude and BPS intervention reported higher social connectedness than participants in the nostalgia and control intervention. Then at follow-up (T4), participants in the nostalgia, gratitude, and BPS intervention had lower fear of COVID-19 than those in the control intervention. Overall, the results show the benefits of nostalgia, gratitude and optimism, compared to the control, during lockdown.

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Greening the Mind: The Power of Integrating Positive and Environmental Education for Improving Well-Being

Burke,

Clarke,

O’Keeffe

2024

Advances in Mental Health and Addiction

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My Best Self in the Past, Present or Future: Results of Two Randomized Controlled Trials

Cited by 6 publications

References 65 publications

Facilitating the coping and development of college students with mental disorders: a positive clinical psychology approach

Facilitating the coping and development of college students with mental disorders: a positive clinical psychology approach

Nostalgia, Gratitude, or Optimism: The Impact of a Two-Week Intervention on Well-Being During COVID-19

Greening the Mind: The Power of Integrating Positive and Environmental Education for Improving Well-Being

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