VIEWPOINTS ON HEALTH, RECOVERY AND WELL-BEING: POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
This article aims at giving an overview of what positive psychology can provide to psychopathology and health psychology in order to highlight their complementarities. First, we will show how positive psychology has contributed to reexamine the issues of health and recovery, stressing the importance of promoting positive health and a complete recovery. We illustrate our topic by describing some results from studies on depression and chronic pain. Then we will emphasize the benefits of clinical strategies that cultivate positive emotions and a sense of well-being, by trying to identify the change processes they mobilize.