Open Polytechnic Wednesday 21 March 2012, 9:31AM
Media release from Open Polytechnic
An exciting new eBook on positive psychology was launched this week
with all money from sales going towards research on
wellbeing.
Written by Dr Aaron Jarden - New Zealand Association of Positive
Psychology (NZAPP) President and a Senior Lecturer of Psychology at
the Open Polytechnic - the book features interviews with thirteen
experts in different areas of the new field of positive
psychology.
"On a flight to a positive psychology conference in the U.S.A I
started noting down all of the questions I wanted answered by the
experts I was going to meet. When I got there, I decided to begin
interviewing them and they agreed. The areas covered in this book
are the kinds of questions I always get asked myself as president
of the NZAPP," says Dr. Jarden.
Available in Kindle Edition on Amazon, 'Positive Psychologists on
Positive Psychology' will be available for two months before it is
published as a special edition available for free via the
International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) - an open-access online
journal devoted to the study of human wellbeing.
"One purpose of the book was to raise funds for the IJW to further
wellbeing research. After its initial listing on Amazon we will
then make it free for IJW readers to help promote the journal.
Making it free also serves the purpose of getting knowledge of
positive psychology out to other academics in psychology who are
becoming interested into positive psychology, but don't really know
the lay of the land," says Dr Jarden.
"It is easy reading and gives insight into how the field came
about, what its challenges are and where it is going. This kind of
information is not usually discussed, at least not in books or
articles. It also highlights discrepancies and areas of agreement
between leading figures in the field."
Just published, the book is already featured in the best seller
list on Amazon in its respective category.
"It's now being translated into Czech, with discussions currently
underway to translate the book into Russian, Portuguese and
Spanish.
"I would like to write an update in two years as the field is at a
tipping point and will change a lot over the next two years," says
Dr Jarden.
For more information on the International Journal of
Wellbeing, please go to the website http://www.internationaljournalofwellbeing.org
To purchase the book go to Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Positive-Psychologists-Psychology-ebook/dp/B007IXU1RY/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
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