PPOSITIVE CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND POSITIVE TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

Clinical psychology has advanced significantly in the past hundred years, and we now have evidence-based psychological treatments. However, this does not mean that there is no room for further improvement in this discipline. In the past twenty years, two important developments have been identified as being beneficial for this field: on the one hand, the Positive psychology movement and its crystallization in the discipline of positive clinical psychology; on the other, the introduction of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve daily clinical practice. In this paper, we address these developments and present a new field of study that attempts to strengthen the ties and connections between them: the field of positive technologies. Furthermore, the different possibilities and advantages of this field are analyzed. In doing so, we present a number of studies in which positive technologies are used from this perspective.

Keywords

• Positive clinical psychology
• Information and communication technologies
• Positive technologies
• Psychological treatments