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LEARNED OPTIMISM
How to Change Your Mind and Your Life (with a new Preface)

Martin E. P. Seligman
Vintage Books, 2006

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
After reading this book, the reader should be able to understand optimistic and pessimistic explanatory styles, and be familiar with exercises to increase optimism.

This book provides evidence that optimism is important in overcoming defeat, promoting achievement, maintaining or improving health, and improving quality of life. It provides tests to determine the degree of negative and positive explanatory style, and techniques to change negative styles into positive ones.

Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D., is Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored 20 books including LEARNED HELPLESSNESS.

11 CE credits; 319 pages

Check both items to order book and test, or check only the item you want.

Order book or tape: $14.95. Order code LEOP3
Order test: $165.00. Order code LEOPT