Enhance Happiness

Find one’s self-worth, happiness, & confidence. Generally, positive affect involves smiling, greeting, using humor when appropriate, making positive, realistic and hopeful statements, demonstrating general enthusiasm, and clarifying roles and expectations (Taylor et. al., 2019). Enhance happiness by finding pleasure, cheerfulness, joy, and delight. Indices for happiness include smiling, laughing and yelling while smiling. Unhappiness indices include grimaces and frowning. Happiness can be altered through the use of motivation, movement, conversation, leisure and mindfulness training. Overt indicators of happiness does not always match the internal state of an individual and maybe under the control of spurious variables (Carr, 2007; Arbogast & Fryling, 2015). Happy people are more agreeable, extroverted, less neurotic and score lower on measure of psychopathology (Diener & Seligman, 2002).

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.” Nelson Mandela.

Fun Finds:

  • The Happy Organization

    • Website: https://www.thehappyorg.org

    • Description: revolutionizes the way nutrition and culinary education are taught and presented in schools.

  • Sunny Skyz

  • One simple wish

    • Website: https://www.onesimplewish.org

    • Description The belief that everyone should experience love, hope & joy. Join them in restoring happiness to those who have been impacted by the trauma of foster care and childhood crisis.

  • Misameach

    • Website: https://misameach.org

    • Description: Dedicated to lifting the spirits of children and adults who are hospitalized, bedridden, have physical disabilities or are facing serious illness through tailored visits from singers, instrumentalists, dancers, magicians, jugglers, clowns, comedians, and storytellers.

    • Location: New Jersey

References

  • Argyle, M. (2001). The Psychology of Happiness, 2nd Edition. Policy. Routledge. 18:1. pp274

  • Carr, J.E. (2007). Assessing indices of happiness and unhappiness in Individuals with developmental disabilities: Behavior interventions. 22. 229-244.

  • Diener & Seligman, 2002 - To ADD

  • Green & Reid, 1996 - TO ADD

  • Otake, K., Satoshi, S., Tanaka-Matsumi, J., Otsui, K., Fredrickson, B. (2006) Happy People Become Happier Through Kindness: Counting Kindness Intervention. Journal of Happiness Studies. 7:3, 361-375.

  • Arbogast, N.R., & Fryling M.J. (2015). Brief assessment of indices of happiness during early and intensive applied behavior analysis. International journal of behavior analysis & Autism Spectrum disorder. 1: 30-33.

  • Taylor, B., LeBlanc, L. A., Nosik, M. (2019). Compassionate Care in Behavior Analytic Treatment: Can Outcomes be Enhanced by Attending to Relationships with Caregivers? Behavior Analysis in Practice. 12: 654-666.

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