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Developing Positive Mental Health (15 Traits of Self-Actualizing…

- - - - Involves taking responsibility for one's own psychological experience and acting in accordance to one's true self
      - Occurs in the presence of fostering autonomy, relatedness and competence (ref Self-Determination Theory)
      - Greater authenticity > greater self esteem
        
        more identity integration
        
        fewer physical complaints
        
        less depression / perceived stress
    - - Help clients build a health defence mechanism (mature)
    - - Authentic happiness is found by identifying and cultivating one's fundamental strengths and using them in everyday contexts
        
        use of signature strengths to obtain gratifications in important areas of life.
        
        meaningful life involves using signature strengths in service of something larger than oneself
        
        full life involves felling & savouring positive feelings about past, present and future to obtain gratifications
- - - - People possess the innate potential for optimal mental health that needs to be realised
      - Self-realisation driven by
        
        Innate striving for prosocial interactions
        
        Altruistic concerns for others.
    - - People have the innate need to develop their potential and will self-actualise in personally fulfiling and socially responsible way, given the right environment
      - Self-actualisation happens with honest self-awareness and in environments where there are genuineness, empathetic understanding and unconditional love from others
      - When one can integrate all of his/her experiences into a coherent and flexible self concept > mental health > fully functioning person