{"id":18016,"date":"2025-01-02T13:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T18:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autism.org\/?p=18016"},"modified":"2025-02-24T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T17:07:09","slug":"wellbeing-positive-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autism.org\/wellbeing-positive-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellbeing Wins: Integrating Positive Psychology into the Autism Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Patricia Wright, PhD, MPH, and Katie Curran, MAAP<\/a>, introduce Proof Positive – The Autism Well-being Alliance. The speakers describe positive psychology, its impact on well-being, and why it matters for autistic people and their communities. Curran details four skills to help with thinking positively and provides suggestions for practicing and applying them to daily life. The speakers emphasize the lack of focus on positive emotions in autism care and how this plays into isolation and mental health issues. They affirm that individuals \u201ccan control [their] own well-being\u201d by employing positive psychology and training their minds to build on the things that go well each day. Wright and Curran outline Proof Positive\u2019s free learning and teaching resources before the Q&A.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Handouts are online HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>