Integrating Virtue &
Flourishing in
Mental Healthcare
The Albert & Jessie Danielsen Institute
Center for Anxiety & Related Disorders
This APA psychotherapy training video offers therapists practical guidance in engaging character strengths and virtues in their psychotherapy practice, shifting the focus beyond the alleviation of symptoms alone.
This mixed-method study used longitudinal mixture modeling to identify clients showing gains in relational virtue engagement over time, and then conducted in-depth interviews.
This study used a mixed-method design to explore the diverse places that clients draw meaning and hope from, and how it relates to their well -being.
This chapter explores the salience of a virtue focus as part of culturally responsive mental healthcare, including the interplay between client strengths and religion/spirituality.
This news article describes the dual-factor approach to mental health, reviewing evidence for how psychotherapy is more than just about knowing oneself and can play an important role in strengthening character.
This practice-based study of psychotherapy clients used group-based trajectory modeling to examine the relationship between cultural humility and well-being as well as if differentiation predicted growth in cultural humility.
This paper synthesizes empirical evidence for positive psychology, virtue, and flourishing interventions, and explores a dual treatment focus in psychotherapy on symptom reduction and cultivating well-being.
This longitudinal practice-based study of psychotherapy clients revealed how growth in humility corresponded to symptom reduction and increased well‐being through emotion regulation capacities.
This qualitative focus-group study elucidates therapist perspectives on the challenges, opportunities, and barriers to attending to clients' strengths and well-being in the U.S. healthcare system.
