Review about the efficacy of positive psychology intervention on depression

Treball Final de Grau en Psicologia. Codi: PS1048. Curs: 2018/2019. ; Positive psychology focuses on maximizing positive emotions and the development of personal strengths, unlike conventional treatments for this type of disorder that have focused on influencing the negative aspects and how they can be reduced. In the present study, a bibliographic review is carried out whose objective is to analyze the benefits of positive psychology interventions applied to patients with depression disorder and, therefore, the effectiveness of these. A review was made of the work of the last 10 years on the application of positive interventions in these patients. A series of investigations is reviewed and exposed, the results of which show that positive psychology interventions, on the one hand, reduce depressive symptomatology and negative aspects, and on the other hand, increase happiness and positive effects such as optimism, mood, hope, gratitude. and resilience. This promotes an improvement in health, increasing well-being and thus achieving a greater orientation towards enjoyment and pleasure. This allows us to conclude that there is sufficient evidence to determine the efficacy of positive psychology in this type of patients. The limitations of this work are focused on the scarcity of articles available in this regard and the lack of a second reviewer to corroborate the information found. Finally, it is suggested studies with children to be conducted in future research, since there is little research in this area. ; La psicología positiva se centra en maximizar las emociones positivas y en el desarrollo de las fortalezas personales, a diferencia de los tratamientos convencionales para este tipo de desorden que se han centrado en incidir sobre los aspectos negativos y en como estos pueden reducirse. En el presente estudio se realiza una revisión bibliográfica cuyo objetivo consiste en analizar los beneficios de las intervenciones de psicología positiva aplicadas a pacientes con trastorno depresión y, así pues, la ...