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Due to the fourth industrial revolution employees in high-risk environments are confronted with increasing complexity and thus, the need to make ever greater and faster adaptations. As a consequence, the importance of efficient and safe human-machine interactions – in other words, human factors – is constantly growing. In this context, one skill is becoming increasingly relevant: resilience. This ability to react appropriately in difficult situations, recognize mistakes and ‘bounce back’ from adverse or altering circumstances, increasing challenges and possible setbacks is of enormous value, especially for employees in high-risk environments. The basic prerequisite of resilience is considered to be balance of a person’s life energy among the various areas of life – a basic principle of Positive Psychotherapy. In addition, there are several personality traits, competencies and psychosocial factors that have been shown to help improve resilience. Both aspects will be examined in the following article. Also, the article invites self-reflection on one’s own life balance, personality traits and competencies central to resilience. For the encouraging and interesting message is: Resilience can be developed and promoted – and can thereby contribute to increasing safety in high-risk environments as well as to promoting the employees’ health.

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This paper calls for the creation of specialized therapy that focuses on Women’s Health within the context of Positive Psychotherapy. Often, women’s mental health needs are overlooked in current mental health care systems, making it clear that there is a need for therapeutic approaches that take into account the intersection of gender and other important factors. By combining the principles of Positive Psychotherapy with a focus on Women’s Health, this paper suggests a comprehensive and empowering framework for tackling women’s mental health issues. The paper delves into the background of women’s mental health needs and identifies the gaps in the existing mental health care systems. It highlights how crucial it is to have specialized treatments that understand and address the unique needs and experiences of women. It also calls for training more specialists in Women’s Health and Positive Psychotherapy to bridge the gap in gender-specific mental health services.

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The article describes the application of Positive Psychotherapy in the example of work with an oncology patient. PPT tools were used to support the patient in the current situation, overview set concepts, reduce the level of fear and support towards dying. The case description is based on the balance model. At the end is presented a case analysis through conflict dynamics, as well as an analysis of 3 stages of interaction. Transferences and counter-transferences of both the specialist and the patient are also described.

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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), as a neurodiverse developmental pattern, affects between one and two individuals in every 100 people. Autistic individuals experience different challenges in every decade of their lives. The difficulties in sensorimotor functioning, emotional codes, communication and cognition, albeit causing emotional distress, form a basis for developing a unique culture. Knowledge, understanding, respect and openness to neurodiversity are the fundamental prerequisites for Transcultural and Positive Psychotherapists and any professional who intends to deliver psychological therapy to autistic individuals. In this paper, we discuss the medical, psychological and sociocultural aspects of the autistic spectrum and present the basic goals of therapeutic work with autistic adults.

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The  present study has a dual purpose:  To explore the correlation between the big five personality traits and conflict-handling strategies according to Thomas-Kilmann’s Conflict Mode Instrument and the personality typology and conflict processing as per the balance model of positive and transcultural psychotherapy. There were 302 participants in the study, 372  women and 70 men. Our analysis shows significant correlation between all Thomas-Kilmann’s five personality traits and Avoidance as a conflict handling strategy. The traits Neuroticism, Consciousness and Agreeableness are positively associated with all five conflict handling strategies – Competition, Avoidance, Collaboration, Compromise and Accommodation. The Extraversion does not only relate to Competition, while Intellect/Imagination is related only  to Avoidance. These findings show that  personality traits have stable links with conflict resolution styles. We attempt to find a parallel between the two research lines which may eventually expand into broader scientific work. Data can be useful in conflict prevention and prediction. It can also be useful for psychotherapists in preparing working hypotheses and therapeutic tasks in the course of psychotherapy.

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In this article, the author attempts to conceptualize the treatment of depressive disorders through the lens of positive and transcultural psychotherapy (PPT), referring to the main tenets of this approach and his own experience as a psychotherapist and psychiatrist. The most important aspects are included here to structure and operationalize the psychotherapy of depression. Relational aspects and differential analysis of symptoms, psychodynamic conflicts, and early symptomatic experiences are discussed.

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In this article, the author attempts to conceptualize depressive disorders from the perspective of positive and transcultural psychotherapy (PPT), referring to the main assumptions of this approach and his own experience as a psychotherapist and psychiatrist. In part one, the etiology, symptomatology and cultural and social conditions of depressive disorders are reflected upon, with the idea of systematizing and operationalizing them.

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The article presents correlational analysis of the concepts used in PPT in the context of social competences, attachment styles and stress-coping strategies in 93 female students of psychotherapy. Polish translation of WIPPF2.0, together with Profile of Social Competencies (PROKOS), Questionnaire of Attachment Styles (KSP) and Polish adaptation of the COPE Inventory were used as measuring tools. Minor to moderate correlations were found between social competences and four Secondary capabilities (Openness, Politeness, Orderliness, Cleanliness) as well as attachment styles and two Primary capabilities (Trust, Sexuality/Tenderness) and three Model dimensions ( I-mother, I-father, YOU). Social Contact was moderately (and positively) correlated with Seeking of Instrumental Social Support and Seeking of Emotional Social Support, whereas Body/Senses, Activity/Achievement and Future/Fantasy were positively correlated with Mental Disengagement.

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Humanity’s search for a new and effective orientation will bring with it a changing relationship between cause and effect. Individuals disillusioned by culture, society, politics and religion, who seek refuge and help in their private worlds, will in turn multiply the collective problems because of these shifting relations.

This shows us once again that none of these cultural systems is good in itself. Their qualities only reveal themselves in the ways in which they are effective for the people who live within them and to the extent to which the rules of their games allow for constructive encounters with other sociocultural systems and their members. So, there is much that the members of various cultural systems could learn from each other – even if they only learn to understand one another.

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This paper presents a conceptual analysis of depression from a philosophical perspective. Even though depression as a mental disorder is commonly perceived as something negative, something that needs to be eliminated to ‘live happily’, positive psychotherapy provides a different perspective on it. While not denying the biochemical and/or organic changes pertained to depression, positive psychotherapy suggests that behind every symptom, and depression can be considered as one, lies its function.

Taking into account the loss of the meaning being one of the manifestations of depression, it can be hypothesized that there is a certain ‘collision’ of two meanings: 1) meaning of life, to which one strives for, and 2) the function of depression in its meaning to depreciate the sphere of meaning in general. In some ways, the solution to internal conflict seems possible by depreciating everything. Hence, the meaningful meaninglessness.

It is suggested that depression itself is rather ambiguous, representing a collision of at least two internal conflicts: one at its basis and another in the reaction. These ideas might be useful in treating depression, highlighting the need to identify and make both of these internal conflicts visible to the patient.

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