PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS ASSESSMENT

Unit 3 Assignment: Psychological Health and Wellness Assessment

Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment:

HW280-U3-1: Describe how biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors impact human happiness and health and wellness.

HW280-U3-3: Explain psychological theories related to happiness and health and wellness.

Course outcome addressed in this Assignment:

HW280-4: Explain psychological theories, processes, and concepts as they relate to human behavior.

Instructions

For the first Assignment, you’ll be required to assess your own life within the framework provided by Goleman’s and Gilbert’s books. You’ll be assessing your ability to manage emotions and your emotional responses from a psychological perspective. Please prepare a 3 to 4 page paper (double spaced, APA format in style and referencing) addressing the following questions:

• How do the skills comprising Emotional Intelligence that Goleman advocates, such as effective conflict resolution, impulse control and social skills, contribute to or detract from your own health and wellness? Support your response with a discussion that references the reading and includes applied examples from your own life.
• Gilbert is interested in delineating the shortcomings of imagination. He claims that we’re far too accepting of the conclusions of our imaginations and discusses a number of psychological roadblocks to happiness. Summarize at least two of these roadblocks and discuss how they impact the ability to predict future happiness. Discuss how these concepts influence your own health and wellness. Support your response with a discussion that references the reading and includes applied examples from your own life.
• Write a health and wellness prescription for yourself based on the concepts presented in these books addressing the following questions. What are you already doing in your life that these authors would support and agree with? What do you need to change? What is your plan for change? In this section, discuss at least two peer reviewed research articles to support your ideas.

Requirements

• This Assignment should be written in essay format. Include an introductory paragraph, thesis statement, supporting paragraphs, summarizing conclusion, and references.
• Use APA format for style, in text citations, and complete references.
• This Assignment should be at least three pages in length.

Answer preview

Daniel Goleman and Gilbert are one of the most recognized authors worldwide for their different books. To begin with, Goleman (2006), wrote about emotional intelligence and some of the altered traits that human beings possess for themselves. Emotional intelligence can be defined as the person’s ability to feel and generate emotions to help in thinking, and the process controls them to produce intellectual growth. I get to use the psychological theories developed and that are related to behavior in my day to day activities and through this, I can make a decision on my routine and what to do at what time for my health and wellness…

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