Module Outline

Module 36: Promoting Wellness

Module 36 presents how psychology can help promote wellness and healthy lifestyles. The module begins by defining wellness and explaining how exercise, family, friends, and faith influence wellness.

Positive psychology is defined; how happiness, flow, and optimism can influence well-being is discussed.

Finally, the module explains how smoking and obesity negate well-being and how one can overcome these illness-related behaviors.

Introduction
	Martin Seligman
	Wellness
Healthy Lifestyles
	Aerobic exercise
	Social support
	Faith factor
	Correlation
Positive Experiences and Well-Being
	Positive psychology
	Well-being
	Flow
	Happiness
	Optimism
	Pessimism
	Explanatory style
Overcoming Illness-Related Behaviors
	Nicotine
	Addictive
	Withdrawal
	Obesity
	Body mass index
	Set point