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    Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Sha Tin) Childcare, Elderly and Community Services Discipline Enrichment Module

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    Lesson Intended Learning Outcome On completion of the lesson, students are expected to be able to: 1. Identify own strengths by using the VIA Survey 2. Analyze own usage of the five signature strengths

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    Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Sha Tin)

    Childcare, Elderly and Community Services Discipline


    Enrichment Module

    CEC4211 Applied Positive Psychology


    Lesson 2: Strengths

    Lesson Intended Learning Outcome


    On completion of the lesson, students are expected to be able to:
    1. Identify own strengths by using the VIA Survey
    2. Analyze own usage of the five signature strengths

    1. Character Strengths
    Character Strengths are the positive human qualities that helps us
    living a good life
    There are 24 Character Strengths in total and you can find it in
    Authentic Happiness website VIA Survey
    (https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/user/login?destin
    ation=node/434)
    “focused on human strengths rather than weaknesses. They
    also hoped to provide a language describing positive human
    qualities that defined a healthy person living a good life.”
    (Crothers & Steve R, 2010: 208)
    We all have these 24 strengths, and they are stable and dynamic
    Peterson and Seligman’s Character Strengths and Virtues: A
    Handbook and Classification (2004) (Crothers & Steve R, 2010:
    209 - 211):
    i. Wisdom and Knowledge
    • General intellectual strength: development and use of
    knowledge
    • Not necessarily follow from a formal education or a high IQ
    score
    • Avoids the pitfalls of narrowly focused and self-interested
    understandings
    • Practical intelligence and good judgment based on learning
    life’s lessons – perhaps through hardships

    1
    • good counsel to others about how to live
    ii. Courage
    • Emotional strength to overcome fear in the face of opposition
    and adversity
    • Accepting one’s own death, dealing with a debilitating illness
    or disease
    • Honestly confronting one’s own limitations
    • Standing up for one’s convictions… negative consequences
    iii. Humanity
    • Sympathy, empathy, compassion, and love in our
    relationships with others
    • Focused on another’s needs
    • Willingness to help others in need
    • To be kind, to be generous, and to respect the feelings and
    values of others
    iv. Justice
    • Fair minded and even-handed rather than being biased by
    self-interest
    • contribute to community well-being, such as working
    cooperatively with others and taking the initiative to develop
    and follow through on goals and projects
    v. Temperance
    • Control excesses and restrain impulses that may harm the self
    and others
    • “willpower” in the face of temptations
    • Eg.: restraint eating, drinking, smoking, expressing of anger,
    hatred…
    • Forgive the indiscretions and hurtful actions of others
    vi. Transcendence
    • Go beyond or rise above the ordinary and the everyday
    • Out of an individualized sense of self by providing a broader
    view of the world and the universe
    • Clearest examples: religion and spirituality (belief in a
    higher power and a greater purpose for life)
    • Satisfying understanding and purpose for life
    You can develop those strengths that you value (or think they are
    important)
    But you can also overuse, misuse or underuse these strengths

    2
    The strengths combination is unique to you, as there are more
    than 40,000 different combinations, it’s not easy to find two
    persons having exactly the same
    Signature Strengths: your top strength within those 24
    Character Strengths
    You use them in a very natural way and often effortlessly
    Your top 5:
    i. _____________________________
    ii. _____________________________
    iii. _____________________________
    iv. _____________________________
    v. _____________________________
    Activities 1, 2, 3, please refer to the worksheet provided in class
    The shadow side of character strengths:
    Too much or too little character strength use can affect
    well-being negatively
    There are always some problems when you use too much of

    References
    Boniwell, I. (2012). Positive Psychology in a Nutshell: The science of
    happiness. (3rd Ed.). New York, NY: McGraw Hill
    Compton, W. C. (2005). An Introduction to Positive Psychology.
    Thomson Wadsworth: Belmont, CA USA. Chapter 3
    Crothers & Steve R (2010). Positive Psychology. New Jersey: Pearson
    Education, Inc.
    Diener, E. (2010). Happy People Live Longer: Subjective Well-Being
    Contributes to Health and Longevity. University of Texas at Dallas.
    Kahneman, D., & Krueger, A.B. (2006). Developments in the
    Measurement of Subjective Well-Being. Journal of Economic
    Perspectives, 20: 1, pp. 3-24.
    岳曉東 (2008)做個A+青少年，香港城市大學出版社: Chapter 1, 7

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