--- MOVE UP WITH HIGHER LEVELS OF UNIVERSAL VALUES
LEARN SKILLS TO MAXIMIZE POTENTIAL
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THINK ABOUT PREVENTING PROBLEMS.
A TEXTBOOK TO MAXIMIZE STUDENTS' POTENTIAL.
INITIATE THIS COURSE IN YOUR HIGH SCHOOL OR COLLEGE.
Junior/Senior High School or Freshman College textbook
MOVING UP: Positive Psychology
Optimum Psycho-Social LifeSkills
Learning to maximize one's potential
By Darrell Franken, M.A., Ph.D.
Junior/Senior High School or Freshman College textbook
Chapter 1 BECOMING THE BEST PERSON YOU CAN BE
Chapter 2 OPTIMUM VALUES AND BEHAVIORS FOR BETTER
HEALTH and WELL-BEING
Chapter 3 CONSCIENCE DEVELOPMENT IN PLACE OF
NEUROTIC DEFENSES
Chapter 4 REPLACING PASSIVENESS AND AGGRESSIVENESS
WITH ASSERTIVENESS
Chapter 5 From FEARING to TRUSTING and Stress Management
Chapter 6 OPTIMUM RELATIONSHIP FOR OPTIMUM FULFILLMENT
Chapter 7 SHYNESS INTO SELF-CONFIDENCE WITH
SELF DISCLOSURE
Chapter 8 OPTIMIZING RATIONAL SELF-TALK BY REFUTING
IRRATIONALITY -- For Health, Happiness and Well-Being
Chapter 9 AUTONOMY WILL HELP TO TAKE YOU UP.
Don’t let peer pressure take you down.
Chapter 10 MAINTAIN SELF-CONTROL AGAINST ADDICTION
Chapter 11 MAKING COMMUNICATION ONE OF YOUR TALENTS
Chapter 12 SOCIAL SKILLS TRAINING (SST)
Problem-Solving Skills Training (PSST)
Interpersonal Problem-Solving (IPS)
Negotiating, Bargaining, Contracting
Chapter 13 KEEPING HOPE AND OPTIMISM ALIVE
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF WHAT ONE NEEDS
IN ORDER TO MAXIMIZE ONE'S SELF-ESTEEM.
Presentation by Darrell Franken, M.A., Ph.D. © 1991-2005
dfranken@lifeskillstraining.org
MOVING UP: Positive Psychology
by Darrell Franken, M.A. M.Div., Ph.D.
has 26 improvements over most
past psychology textbook
courses for high schools
MOVING UP: Positive Psychology
! is written for high school juniors and seniors
! teaches 50+ core values and behaviors of 60 years of social sciences.
(All 50+ are correlated with the name of the professor who identified the skill.)
! is more behavioral than academic or theoretical.
! gives direction to growth in specific optimum behaviors.
! teachs a course of action in life, more than just head knowledge.
! is skill-oriented toward development of upgrading personal behavior.
! is focused to help persons prevent problems throughout life.
! teaches the “people skills” and “character” skills that industry wants.
! does not require a person to take Introductory Psychology 101 first.
! challenges the “comfort zone” mentality of so many persons.
! combines all chapters together to promote higher SELF-ESTEEM.
! becomes somewhat of a training ground for helping to reduce SHYNESS.
! teaches which pitfalls to avoid on the road to OPTIMUM WELL-BEING.
! is, WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW, TO GET WHERE YOU WANT TO GO.
TEACHER’S MANUEL
! supplies supplementary lecture material.
! supplies tests for the chapters.
! supplies one interactive handout for every classroom discussion.
Students pair off in twos or threes and discuss the handout sheet.
This handout sheet can be copied from the Teacher’s Manual.
Also this handout sheet can be printed out from the teacher’s computer.
PDF files are supplied if the teacher wishes.
STUDENTS LEARN MENTORING
! Students learn to become familiar with (mutual) mentoring
in half of each class period. (Most successful persons have
reached out to consult regularly with a mentor.)
! Students practice the skills they discuss with their mentoring partners.
! Students practice accountability with mutual-mentor partners.
! Students report to mentoring partners how they put new skills to work.
The Teacher’s Manual can be obtained in PDF files so the teacher can
have the information on the teacher’s own computer, and print out
HANDOUTS for use in class.
A NEW DIRECTION IN PSYCHOLOGY
! Concepts in MOVING UP: Positive Psychology have had universal exposure and much acclaim. (For example, the concept of ASSERTIVENESS had been published in almost 100 books, and an unending outpouring of social science materials.)
! MOVING UP: Positive Psychology originates out of major published social science concepts.
! All concepts in this textbook are correlated with optimum religious values and lifeskills.
! MOVING UP: Positive Psychology turns psychology around from operating out of a medical (therapeutic / fix-it) model, to a new model. The new model for MOVING UP: Positive Psychology is an educational model that trains people to learn and enhance the positive functions people were born to achieve.
! MOVING UP: Positive Psychology uses the latest model developed and promoted by Dr. Martin Seligman (Univ of Penn) and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Univ. of Chicago) in 1998, 2000. They want psychology to POSITIVELY ENHANCE TALENTS AND SKILLS, as well as continue to be therapeutically helpful to people who have problems. Hence, “positive psychology”
WHY TEACH OLD-FASHIONED THERAPEUTIC (fix-it) PSYCHOLOGY TO STUDENTS WHO ARE JUST NOW LEARNING HOW TO LIVE POSITIVELY!
JUMP START TO POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IS A NEW WAVE ROLLING IN at 2000 AD.
You build your strengths with it.
You raise your values with it.
You develop drive with it.
You weather conflict with it.
You become more creative with it.
You find more fulfillment with it.
POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IS NOT A FIX-IT PROGRAM
Positive for personal growth
Positive for getting out of life’s “pit”.
Positive for building self-esteem
Positive for accelerating character
Giving you an edge to get where you want to go.
POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY TEACHES OPTIMUM POTENTIAL
For pursuing maximum potential
For keeping hoping dynamics alive
For buffers against failure
For enhancing human relations
For students to bring character to their profession
POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY FOR YOUTH ON THE WAY UP.
High school seniors
College students
Young adults
MOVING UP: Positive Psychology is for
a school system where teachers have some passion
to make this world more moral, more ethical, more
conscience driven. The rules for work are changing.
HEAR IT FROM THE KING OF WRITERS ON
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE .
"We’re being judged by a new yard stick: not just by
how smart we are, or by our training and expertise,
but also by how well we handle ourselves and each
other. . . . This yard stick is increasingly applied in
choosing who will be hired and who will not, who will
be let go and who retained, who passed over and who
promoted.” Daniel Goleman, Working with Emotional
Intelligence, 1998
MOVING UP: Positive Psychology
brings together 60 years of research and publishing on
key and core factors that help youth reach their optimum
potential.
MOVING UP: Positive Psychology is much
more practical than Introductory Psychology.
INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY helps to learn about brain
function, theories, and research, but not about how to
reach optimum potential or be an appreciated worker.
MOVING UP: Positive Psychology
teaches you more of what you need to know,
to get where you want to go.
THE NEW FIELD OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY INFLUENCES
THIS TEXTBOOK TO BE MORE FUTURE - ORIENTED.
Between 1998-2000 Dr. MARTIN E.P. SELIGMAN (U of Penn
and MIHALY CSIKSZENTSMIHALYI (University. of Chicago)
launched POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY. POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY model
helps good people refine core skills to reach optimum personal potential.
MOVING UP: Positive Psychology adopts many of
the features of the Seligman model.
Here is POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY that Martin Seligman
and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi called for in American
Psychologist (Journal of the APA January, 2000)
"The aim of positive psychology is to
begin to catalyze a change in the focus of
psychology from preoccupation with
repairing the worst things in life to also
building positive qualities....”
"The field of positive psychology at the subjective level is
about valued subjective experiences: well-being, content-
ment, and satisfaction (in the past): hope and optimism (for
the future); and flow and happiness (in the present). At the
individual level, it is about positive individual traits: the
capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill,
aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality,
future mindedness, spirituality, high talent, and wisdom”.
“At the group level, it is about the civic virtues and institutions
that move individuals toward better citizenship: responsibility,
nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation, tolerance, and work
ethic." (Martin E.P. Seligman, University of Pennsylvania,
written during his term as President of the American
Psychological Association.)
MOVING UP: Positive Psychology incorporates these,
— increasing love/social
— hoping / optimism
— better relationships
— talent
— wisdom
— altruism
— tolerance
--- spirituality
— values
— cognitive restructuring
--- meditation
--- relaxation
--- flow
--- intuition
ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE TAUGHT IN PERSONAL
STRENGTHS MORE THAN IN ANY OTHER POSITIVE
PSYCHOLOGY BOOK.
CHAPTERS FEATURE PROMINENT LIFESKILLS
This textbook incorporates skills identified by some of
the most prominent psychologists in the last 5 to 10
decades. Here are some of those skills and the
most prominent spokes persons for them.
Positive Stroking, libidinal nourishment (Ch. 1, 10) Berne, Steiner
Values clarification (Ch.2) Gordon Allport, Milton Rokeach
Self-actualization (Ch. 2) Abraham Maslow
Support groups (Ch. 2, 3, 10)Alcoholics Anonymous
Catharsis (Ch. 2, 4)Freud and Breuer
Rational replacement of irrational ideas (Ch. 2, 5, 8)Albert Ellis
Focusing (Ch. 2) Eugene T. Gendlin
Owning + sharing feelings (conscience) (Ch. 2, 11)
Mentoring for accountability (Ch. 3) Alcoholics Anonymous
Aggression Replacement Training (Ch.4) Glick & Goldstein
Assertiveness Training (Ch. 4)Wolpe, '58, Alberti & Emmons
Personal Growth Log (Ch. 4) Alberti and Emmons
Programming "Stages" of growth (Ch. 5) Erik Erikson
Fear reduction in Stress Management (Ch. 5, 8) Hans Selye
Relaxation (Ch. 5) Herbert Benson, Jacobson, Schultz
Systematic and In Vivo Desensitization (Ch. 5, 12) Wolpe, Kazdin
Self-disclosure (Ch. 5, 7, 11) Sidney Jourard
Assertiveness Training (Ch. 6) Alberti, Emmons, Fensterheim
Touch (tactile contact) and bonding (Ch. 7) Ashley Montegue
Shyness reduction (multiple skills) (Ch. 7) Philip Zimbardo
Cognitive restructuring for "hoping" (Ch. 8) Seligman, W. Lynch
Self-talk (Ch. 8 for cognitive restructuring) Coue', Ellis, Seligman
Visualization, Imagery (hoping) (Ch. 8, 13) Coue', Seligman
Written Rational Self Analysis (Ch. 8, 13) Maxie Maultsby
Intensive Journal (or writing a note) (Ch. 9) Ira Progoff
Networking (for social support) (Ch. 10) Lambert Maguire
Volunteering (retraining of narcissism) (Ch. 10) Ancient Wisdom
Empathy Training (Ch. 11)Seymour and Norma Feshbach
Active Listening (Ch. 11) Thomas Gordon
Acceptance, "unconditional positive regard" (Ch. 11)Carl Rogers
Social Skills Training (Ch. 12) Craighead, Kazdin and Mahoney
Interpersonal Problem Solving (Ch. 12) Kazdin, Guerra, Slaby
Negotiation (Ch. 12) After Wagner Act in 1935
Affirmation (Ch. 13) Emile Coue'
THOSE 50 IDENTIFIED SKILLS CONTRIBUTE TO THE
13 CHAPTERS OF MOVING UP: Positive Psychology
EXAMPLE No. 1
“UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD” by Carl Rogers is a
skill which belongs in Positive Psychology. It is in PERSONAL
STRENGTHS: Positive Psychology.
EXAMPLE No. 2
“ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING” — identified first by Alberti
and Emmons — belongs in Positive Psychology. It is in
PERSONAL STRENGTHS: Positive Psychology.
EXAMPLE No. 3
“ACTIVE LISTENING” — first identified by Thomas
Gordon — belongs in Positive Psychology. It is in
PERSONAL STRENGTHS: Positive Psychology.
EXAMPLE No. 4
“RELAXATION” — by notables like Jacobson, Schultz
and Benson — belongs in PERSONAL STRENGTHS:
Positive Psychology.
THOSE 50 THERAPEUTIC SKILLS are introduced and
described in PERSONAL STRENGTHS; Positive Psychology.
HERE ARE THE RECENT TRENDS POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
LEARNED OPTIMISM (1990) by Martin E.P. Seligman
AUTHENTIC HAPPINESS (2003) by Martin E.P. Seligman
COGNITIVE THERAPY (1976) by Aaron Beck
CREATIVITY (1996) by Mihalyi Csikszentsmihalyi
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (1985) by Daniel Goleman
SCIENCE OF OPTIMISM AND HOPE (2000) by Seligman
FUTURE REACHES OF HUMAN NATURE (1971, 1993) Maslow
INNER KNOWING (1998) by Helen Palmer
INTUITION: Power and Perils (2000) by David Myers
MENTORING (1996) by Robb Biehl
DIMENSIONS OF FORGIVENESS (1998) Worthington
WORKING WITH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (1980Goleman
THE BREAK-OUT PRINCIPLE (2003) by Herbert Benson
SO, WHAT MAKES THIS COURSE CAPABLE
OF UPGRADING VALUES, SKILLS AND
BEHAVIORS, TO REDUCE PROBLEMS,
AND GET A PERSON OFF THE GROUND –
TO FLY !
MENTORING AND ACCOUNTABILITY
ARE ADDED IN TEACHING
THE GOAL IS UPGRADING BEHAVIOR,
NOT ONLY UPGRADING THE MEMORY BANK.
THE TEACHER INTRODUCES THREE NEW TEACHING
MODALITIES, coupled with a traditional one, testing.
1. MUTUAL MENTORING (Seligman launched this for
Positive Psychology)– We suggest the use of
mutual-mentoring to translate head knowledge into
personal behavior upgrade. Every college and university
needs to give their students some experience in mutual-
mentoring, because it is becoming a requisite for
upgrading lifeskills and character. Martin E.P. Seligman
started it in 2003.
2. ACCOUNTABILITY (This is a factor going beyond
Seligman.) – Accountability takes place in
mutual mentoring, turns new theory into new behavior,
with greater ease and more permanence. A. The teacher
teaches. B. The class forms. C. Partners – threesomes.
D. The teacher distributes a discussion sheet. E. Students
discuss. F. Students write what they plan to upgrade.
G. Students report their efforts to their mutual-mentor
partner. I. That is accountability.
3. CONSCIENCE TRAINING -LISTENING (This is a factor
Seligman will emulate/copy.) --- Mutual mentoring, with
accountability, sensitizes and strengthens the conscience
to hear inner messages, and send the signals which generate
personal growth. Psychology has the opportunity to make
a positive impact toward stronger moral order in
the world, through A sensitive conscience, when listened to,
will be a better expert guide in upgrading behavior.
CONSCIENCE IS AN EMOTIONAL COMPONENT. Daniel
Goleman, like the book PERSONAL STRENGTHS, promotes
an integration of optimum academic learning, with learning
how to be a congenial and cooperative person.
4. THE AAHHhhaa! FACTOR IN POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ---
(Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi supports this.) Positive Psychology shows
greater benefits from creativity and its AAHHhhaa! factor.
AAHHhhaa-ism. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi promotes the
idea that people are more highly benefitted when they look
for AAHHhhaa! in moral, ethical and creative ways, than
through alcohol, drugs, food and sex. YOU WILL FIND
THOSE FACTORS IN THE TEACHER’S MANUAL
TEACHER’S MANUAL —
The Teacher’s Manual has 520 pages,
averaging 40 pages per chapter. THE TEACHER’S MANUAL
has supplemental information to use for the class lecture hour.
This information is documented and reliable.
Some is anecdotal and/or humorous.
A. Several pages of information for use in lecturing.
B. Handouts for discussion
C. A final test of each chapter
STUDENTS HAVE CD FOR SPEED LEARNING
AND FOR PERSONAL SELF-EVALUATION
SPEED LEARNING CD,
comes with the textbook.
THERE ARE TWO OUTCOMES-BASED GOALS
No. 1 is Measurable and reported growth in character traits
No. 2 Academic learning of factual material,
speeded up with the use of a STUDENT
HOW ABOUT SOME POINTED HUMOR.
If French professors taught French like psychology
professors teach most psychology, then the French
teacher would teach an Intro to French History
the first semester, Abnormal French Pronunciation
in the second semester, Research of French Dialects
the third semester, and How to Speak French
would be taught in graduate school. — Not funny !!!!!!
Try this one !!!!!
If a Piano teacher taught Piano, like most Psychology is
taught, then the Piano teacher would spend a semester
teaching how WOOD pianos are made. The second
semester would be on METALLURGYof various
strings, and doing research on which string gives certain
qualities. The third semester would be on HARMONICS
and accoustics. The fourth and final semester the teacher
would let the student put fingers on keys and make sounds.
CONCERT PRACTICING would wait until graduate school.
— Not funny ? !
Positive Psychology helps you understand and
learn how to master or direct your life toward success,
health, happiness, and well-being FIRST DAY and FORWARD.
One MSW graduate once said of PERSONAL STRENGTHS:
Positive Psychology. . . . . . .
“I could have killed to have that
book when I was in school.”
REVIEWERS OF THIS BOOK
The following persons have given positive affirmations about their concepts described in this textbook.
ALAN KAZDIN, Yale University.
ALBERT BANDURA, Stanford University
PETER LEE, University of Hong Kong
MIKE OMIZO, University of Hawai
THOMAS PARISH, Kansas State University
G.M. VANDER MOLEN, University of Maastricht,
Netherlands
From a review by ROBERT ALBERTI
Co-Author of Your Perfect Right
A 1 million best seller in 1971 ff
On Assertiveness Training
I “appreciate [the] positive perspective on our work.”
From a review by ALBERT ELLIS, On Rational Emotive Therapy
“I thought the material was in good order. . . citations are accurate.”
From a review by ELMER AND ALYCE GREEN Emeritus: Menninger Foundation
“Plaudits to you for focusing attention on ‘what to do’ instead
of theories on “how did it get that way.”
From a review by MARIA STEKETEE (Duke University)
“I am impressed with how much information is included and
how well you have organized this work.”
From a review by MAXIE MAULTSBY, Jr. MD Howard Univ, DC
“I approve of your representation of my writing.”
From a review by ROBERT A. CUMMINS, Deakin Univ, Australia
“You have brought together much material in a simple
and understandable manner. The text is well presented
and excellently composed. Your examples work well and
I can imagine people reading this and getting much infor-
mation they can use to personally enhance their lives.”
MAKING STUDENTS MORE MARKETABLE
ONE MORE BIG PLUS for PERSONAL STRENGTHS:
Positive Psychology. It helps make more students
marketable to business, industry and human services.
Not everyone who has studied psychology in high school,
has a reputable and / or marketable attitude and relationship
skills.
PERSONAL STRENGTHS: Positive Psychology is about
“PEOPLE SKILLS." INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS want
persons with “PEOPLE SKILLS” because those persons
generate higher profits and lower costs.
Author
Darrell Franken, M.A., M.Div., Ph.D., is a psychologist.
Graduate of Central Unversity of Iowa. He has graduate
degrees from the University of Chicago and LaSalle
University, as well as post graduate work at the Univer-
sity of Michigan and at the M.D. Anderson Hospital and
Medical Research Center in Houston, Texas. He spent
most of his life in counseling. There he learned that
many of the values and skills identified by the social
sciences are also significant for nearly everyone, not
just for persons who need counseling.
He launched a writing career in the social sciences
to advance the cause of character in the world. Psychol-
ogists operate from the medical model which generates
counselors. Educators help people rise to the challenge
of optimum living. Dr. Franken believes there is a larger
audience who can benefit from the social sciences, than
those needing the help of social workers and psycholo-
gists.
His writing and publishing has focused on skill-
training for high school, college students and their
professors. He has spent most of his life showing
people how to mend and prevent personal problems.
He puts that into his writings. Dr. Franken identifies
himself as a Type A personality, who generally has
"too much hay on his fork." He is a great-grandson
of one of the settlers in Sioux Center, Iowa. He
continues the pioneering tradition.
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