Optimism and Counselling, Subjective Wellbeing and Mental as well as Physical Health

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cityu.schoolDivision of Arts and Sciences
cityu.siteVancouver, BC
cityu.site.countryCanada
dc.contributor.authorPaukkunen, Veronika
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-10T22:56:05Z
dc.date.available2019-06-10T22:56:05Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-16
dc.description.abstractIt is common for people to say either I am unhappy or I just want to be happy. So what makes people happy? This is a question that interests me and I also find that it interests many people as well. Sometimes individuals potentially hope that happiness may be achieved through material means where the individual thinks that if they had more money to buy things they would be happier. I think not. I think that happiness may actually be related to optimism and through inner exploration of oneself. Something else that I have realized is that people may be happier when they experience good thoughts or feelings. If good thoughts or feelings possibly enable people to feel happy then I think good thoughts or feelings and happiness are related to being positive or optimistic. As a student completing the masters of counselling program I also noticed that there are many elements of counselling that relate to optimism, especially the idea that it is important for clients to feel hopeful for the future. I also noticed that it may be common for clients to want happiness or to want to no longer feel unhappy anymore, like most people also wish for. Thus I find it very crucial to study what optimism really is and how humans can possibly use optimism to obtain greater life satisfaction through different factors that optimism is related to. I also found that these different factors could be a part of different counselling theories, components of subjective wellbeing as well as factors related to good physical or mental health.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11803/799
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisher.institutionCity University of Seattle (CityU)
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
dc.rightsopenAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.subjectoptimism
dc.subjecthappiness
dc.subjectinner exploration
dc.subjecthopefulness
dc.subjectlife satisfaction
dc.subjectsubjective wellbeing
dc.titleOptimism and Counselling, Subjective Wellbeing and Mental as well as Physical Health
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.disciplineCounselling
thesis.degree.grantorCity University of Seattle
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Counselling
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