Overview
This book extends positive psychology by embedding leisure into the positive science field, following a new paradigm and aggregating various domains and fields. Positive science can be applied to the field of leisure and, in turn, leisure can serve as an arena to study some of the most important optimal functioning variables. The book presents knowledge on a diverse range of topics about optimizing socio-cognitive processes and behaviors, places and contexts, societies and cultures through leisure. These topics are unified by an underlying continuum that extends from individuals and subjective experiences to social worlds. The contributions highlight components of everyday life, showing that subjective experience and life trajectories are structured and social goals and life purposes are defined and achieved within interactions between individuals and their lived contexts and environments in daily life. .
Full Product Details
Author: Teresa Freire
Publisher: Springer
Imprint: Springer
Edition: 2013 ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.541kg
ISBN: 9789400750579
ISBN 10: 9400750579
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 16 December 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Author Information
Teresa Freire is assistant professor in the School of Psychology in the University of Minho (Portugal); PhD in 2000 in Psychology (Social Psychology) in the University of Minho. She graduated in Psychology in 1987, in the Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education in the University of Porto, Portugal. From 1987 to 1993 she was a teacher in the psychology course, in the University of Porto, where she did her Master Degree in Psychology (Social Psychology). Since 1993 she integrates the Department of Psychology, in the University of Minho in Braga. Presently her main researches and intervention interests are related to socio-cognitive processes and the quality of subjective experience in daily life, studying in particular optimal leisure experience and positive development of adolescents. These issues have been investigated using on-line and retrospective measures, being the study of these methodological procedures other main research goals. She is the coordinator of the Laboratory of Social Cognition and coordinator of the Research Group for the Study of Optimal Functioning (Grupo de Investigacao para o Funcionamento optimo - GIFOp) - her research group team in the School of Psychology. She coordinates several research projects, such as Master and PhD projects (funded and not funded), and belongs to European research teams in the positive psychology domain. She belongs to the European Network for Positive Psychology (ENPP), being member of the Management Board Committee and country representative for Portugal (http://www.enpp.org/), and to the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology, being founding member. For practice and intervention, she develops community services being the coordinator of the Counseling Service for Children and Adolescents of the Psychological Counseling Service and Human Development of the University of Minho, working on with individual intervention as well as group intervention. Several psychological intervention group programs have been developed, with children and adolescents, in school contexts. She also coordinates the Peer Tutoring and Coaching Project for students implemented in the University of Minho, being the author of the project and responsible for its implementation and evaluation. Within this project she coordinates master's research projects.
