Positive Psychology and Well-being
Become a scientist-practitioner in the broad field of psychology. As a positive psychologist, you focus on people’s strengths and talents, and the positive aspects of human functioning. In the Master's program Positive Psychology and Well-being, you are trained in interventions to establish happiness and behavioral change. You can apply this within the broad domain of mental health services, schools, and companies. This is a track of the Master’s program in Psychology and Mental Health.
Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive in their personal life, schools and universities, companies, and mental health care. You focus on people's strengths and talents and study concepts like creativity, happiness, developing talents and strengths, adaptive power and psychological well-being. You will study these concepts in the context of individuals, personal life, health, education, entrepreneurship and society in general.
- Become part of a small-scale, interactive program with much personal attention.
- Become trained in interventions to establish happiness and behavioral change by identifying and developing people’s strengths and talents.
- This program is a broader than the other three clinical tracks of the Master's program in Psychology (Clinical Psychology, Clinical Forensic Psychology, and Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology), because children, adolescents and adults with psychological problems also have healthy and strong features which this program focuses on.
- This Master's track uses the scientist-practitioner model, with a strong link between theory and practice. You learn to conduct independent research and you put what you have learned into practice during an internship. You also attend guest lectures from professional practice.
Please note that this Master’s track does not provide the qualification required for the Dutch post-Master's program to become a GZ psychologist or psychotherapist. For more information, visit the website: Bewijsstukken voor aanvragen LOGO verklaring.
Typical courses are:
- Introduction and Theories about Positive Psychology
- Personal Development, Growth and Resilience
- Positive Institutions
- Assessment and Interventions
Na studia magisterskie mogą kandydować wszyscy, którzy ukończyli studia licencjackie lub inżynierskie (studia I stopnia), studia magisterskie lub studiują na ostatnim roku studiów I-stopnia. Studia, które planujesz powinny mieć zbliżony profil do tych obecnych lub ukończonych, ponieważ w procesie rekrutacji kluczowa jest ich zgodność programowa.
- Wykaz punktów ECTS – osoby, które są jeszcze w trakcie studiów, muszą załączyć wypis punktów ECTS, w którym będzie wykazane, jakie przedmioty były realizowane na studiach oraz ile punktów za nie otrzymano.
- Dyplom ukończenia studiów licencjackich lub inżynierskich – jeśli jesteś absolwentem wyższej uczelni, nie potrzebujesz wypisu, wystarczy załączyć dyplom ukończenia studiów wraz z suplementem (w języku angielskim lub oryginał z tłumaczeniem)
- Uwaga! Każdy kierunek magisterski może mieć inne wymagania i wymagać specyficznych dodatkowych dokumentów. Przed aplikacją sprawdź na stronie uczelni, jakich dokumentów potrzebujesz!
Spełnienie wymagań w zakresie języka angielskiego można udokumentować w następujący sposób:
- IELTS – 6.5
- TOEFL – 90
To be admitted directly to our Master's program Positive Psychology and Well-being, you need to have the following academic background:
Bachelor's and/or a Master's degree in psychology
You can apply for admission BEFORE you have graduated, but you must have graduated by September 1, 2019 at the latest. If your graduation ceremony is after September 1, 2019, please contact Ms. Shinta The, Admissions Officer, at admissions-tsb@tilburguniversity.edu before you apply to avoid disappointment.
You cannot be accepted onto this Master's program without having either a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Psychology. Work experience or an interest in this field cannot be taken into account for the admission process without a sufficient academic background.
Advanced knowledge in research methods and statistics
Knowledge of the basic psychological subjects
Knowledge of specific (major) psychology courses
A Bachelor or Master degree in Psychology. Also advanced knowledge in research methods and statistics. Knowledge of relevant subjects in the field of Social Psychology, or Economic Psychology or Work and Organisational Psychology.
Familiar with doing scientific research and know how to deal with the ‘empirical cycle’ (i.e. collecting, analyzing and reporting data).
Positive psychologists can be employed in the broad domain of schools, companies and mental health services.
Schools and universities are paying attention to talent, motivation, success and strengths of individual pupils/students and teachers. In order to realize this positive approach, expertise is needed which can be offered by people who have been educated and trained in designing and guiding change processes on an individual, interpersonal and organizational level (e.g. coaches, counselors, consultants and trainers).
Companies are increasingly in need of experts who can help them to recruit the right people in the right positions and companies search for methods to gain insight into the talents and strengths of employees in all age categories. More and more organizations want to offer workplaces to people with disabilities. For this reason, experts are needed who use a different and much more positive approach to employee talents and functioning.
Mental health care institutions are also in need of broadening their scope. Psychologists are still too one-sidedly trained in diagnosing and treating disorders and still ignore the fact that people with complaints are also people with talents. In addition to a disorder-based approach, a strength-oriented approach is thus needed. This requires experts who not only look at co-morbidities but also at co-vitalities.
