Overview of measurement-based positive psychiatry.

CONCLUSIONS: Positive psychiatry has the potential to improve the health and well-being of individuals with or without mental illnesses. Further research is needed to provide clinicians and investigators with a full tool-box of validated measures for positive psychosocial factors and outcomes. These measures should be subjected to rigorous psychometric evaluation across populations to help clarify mechanisms underlying positive factors, evaluate their longitudinal trajectories, and examine the impact of interventions on health and well-being over the lifespan in different clinical groups.
PMID: 30744516 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Nordic Journal of Psychiatry - February 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Nord J Psychiatry Source Type: research