Connecting the Myth to Psychology Seligman's PERMA model, a positive psychology bedrock, identifies five essential elements for lasting well-being. Each letter in this acronym symbolizes a unique ...

For that we turn to Dr. Martin Seligman and his well-being theory. When he became the president ... was extremely adept at looking at a disease model. In other words psychologists were really ...

But the truth is, many of these interventions are better for the bank accounts of those selling them than the well-being of those ... to develop the Perma model. It breaks down human flourishing ...

For example, Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey, initially adopted the PERMA model of well-being, originally conceived at University of Pennsylvania. However, it discovered it needed to build a model ...