Positive Psychology Interventions for Depressive Symptoms

Linda Bolier and colleagues' (2013) meta-analysis remains the best I have seen. It upset the positive psychology listserv with its honest appraisal, but I still found serious flaws.

I originally posted a similar article in 2013 on my Quick Thoughts blog, but the archives were so vandalized that I had to reconstruct it from notes I made at the time. As I describe below, I read and re-read the meta-analysis to reconstructing my article,. I noticed a fatal flaw I had previously missed and I report it here. No one attacking the meta-analysis on the 'FRIENDS-OF-PP@LISTS.APA.ORG' seemed to have noticed it. Yet, the flaw is basic to the positive psychology literature, even today.

Read my article, picking up the investigative tools and hot tips I provide. By the end, you should be equipped to zero in these flaws. You will be entitled to feel smarter than the 2013 model of CoyneoftheRealm and Marty Seligman and the 'FRIENDS-OF-PP@LISTS.APA.ORG', and his minions. You will have the right to brag about that and impress your friends and colleagues with your momentary superiority.

But beware of showing off that knowledge indiscreetly. Exposing weaknesses in positive psychology …