Comment by aidenn0
2 years ago
Surely coaching could help develop better coping mechanisms for various issues that arise from living with a brain energetics disorder?
(To be clear: I'm not recommending Shimmer; the fact that they mention positive psychology is a red-flag for me).
I think it's just poor value for money and time. One should focus instead on ways of eliminating the brain energetics disorder to obtain true freedom.
It's like being sober versus being attached at the hip to Narcotics Anonymous. Sure, it helps people, but it's much better, if possible, to not even need it.
Can you expand more on your perspective on positive psychology?
Much of what I have encountered in Positive Psychology (with a capital "P"; i.e. the relatively young field) falls into two categories:
1. Incorporating things from previous research that are relatively uncontentious (e.g. flow
2. Tainted by academic fraud (e.g. Critical Positivity Ratio)
Given that you can have #1 without defining a new field of psychology, I associate the field of Positive Psychology with #2.
In essence, practicing positive psychology, to us, means that we focus on the positive attributes and strengths of an individual - not on their pathology as in "traditional" approaches. It also means that we focus on helping our members achieve higher levels of well-being and personal growth as oppose to focusing solely on the symptoms relief.
Our key approach has been providing a mix of psychoeducational coaching interventions to enhance positive attributes in combination with other help our members can obtain - and not on short-term prescribed psychotherapies or medication as a sole mode of intervention.
Thank you for explaining more. Positive Psychology as a field is very wide, with different schools of thought within it; the most important aspect to us being that we focus on the Strength-Based vs. Disability Model of Neurodiversity. The school of thought we are part of is equally applicable to other allied fields which help those with ADHD achieve a better quality of life - psychiatry, clinical and psychotherapeutic services.