psicologia positiva

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positive psychology was defined by Seligman (1999) as a scientific

study of the positives experiences, positives individual’s traits, the

institutions that facilitate its development and the programs that help

to improve the quality of life, whereas prevent or reduce the incidence

of psychopathology. Its was describe too, like a scientific study of the

human strengths and virtues, that which led them adopt a wide

perspective as regard to human potential, his motivations and

capacities. The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical revision

concerning the recent movement of the psychology from a cognitive

behavioral approach, its antecedents, mains suppositions, applies fields

that it was had more advances, and some developmental perspectives