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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021

An Emerging Preventive Mental Health Care Strategy: The Neurobiological and Functional Basis of Positive Psychological Traits.

Ashten R Duncan, Grant Daugherty, Gabrielle Carmichael

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Sex, Resilience and Psychological Well-Being in Mexican University Students.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025
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  3. How Positive Psychology Can Augment Leadership Through the Therapeutic Alliance.MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Ashten R DuncanDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States=.
Grant DaughertyOU-TU School of Community Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK, United States.
Gabrielle CarmichaelOU College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, United States.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Even with the expanding burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, our approach to mental health care remains largely reactive rather than preventive. This trend is problematic because the majority of outpatient visits to primary care providers across the country is related to unmet mental health needs. Positive psychology has the potential to address these issues within mental health care and provide primary care providers with strategies to serve their patients more effectively. Positive psychology has many frameworks like hope, which can be measured using simple questionnaires in the waiting room. Moreover, there is a growing body of neurobiological evidence that lends credence to positive psychology concepts in the context of differential neuronal activation patterns. Many positive psychological instruments not only have high construct validity but also have connections to observable neurobiological differences tied to differences in psychosocial functioning. Despite the current evidence, we still need robust research that explores if such psychometric measurements and related interventions lead to clinically significant and favorable health outcomes in patients outside of controlled environments.

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clinical settingshope theoryneurobiologypositive psychologypreventive mental health carepsychometrics

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PMID34744895
PMCPMC8570368

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