This book introduces Casual Agency Theory as a framework for defining self-determination and describing its development and essential characteristics. It synthesizes the research on promoting and enhancing self-determination and explores implications for practice in a disability context across the life course. The book also highlights future directions for theory, research, and practice in areas of positive psychology and disability.
Key areas of coverage include:
Theoretical basis of the development of self-determination as well as research findings and...
This book introduces Casual Agency Theory as a framework for defining self-determination and describing its development and essential characteristi...
This book examines the science and practice of character strengths as the backbone for understanding, studying, and applying positive interventions across a wide range of disabilities. It explores character strengths as positive personality qualities most central to an individual’s identity that create positive outcomes for building well-being and managing adversities and contribute to the collective good. The book recognizes disability as a part of the human experience that can emerge for anyone and the necessity for examining and applying strengths-based approaches. It explores what is...
This book examines the science and practice of character strengths as the backbone for understanding, studying, and applying positive interventions...