The Open Polytechnic
Media Release:
Immediate
Date:
20/03/2012
Positive new book on
positive psychology
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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