The “anti-DSM” movement represents the commitment of positive psychology to human virtues and forces. This perspective aims to highlight what makes us happy and counteract the tendency to classify and study only mental disorders.
Thus, while the DSM is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, VIA (Values in Action, or Values in Action, in Portuguese) aims to classify human forces by extracting patterns and proposing a common lexicon that will help us to understand interculturally human virtues. and strength.
- In addition.
- Like the DSM.
- Via also offers evaluation strategies and questionnaires that help researchers assess six virtues that are divided into 24 forces.
- On this page.
- We can take the exam in English after enrollment.
Although we have not quoted the creators of this proposal, it is psychologists Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman, who suggest the existence of 6 virtues through which they articulate to 24 human forces. Let’s see what they are:
Without falling into over-optimism, it is understood that the more we cultivate these virtues and strengths, the closer we are to self-realization and our ability to be happy, which opens many paths in optimizing training. and education that we provide to children and adults in our society.
Highlighting helps us promote the development of these personal, emotional, cognitive and behavioral skills. One film that helps us understand the importance of highlighting human forces is The Dead Poets Society.
We can say that less rigidity and more flexibility, learning to take a step back, having an open mind and being able to understand and learn by being aware and rating every possibility is critical to ensuring strong people who are able to deal with the world.
Because, as noted, education must have the capacity to promote positive change among people and improve skills at all levels, opening paths and highlighting what is particularly relevant to our development as beings in the world.
That is, by fostering the development of human forces, we help children to be happy, to have more self-confidence and to be able to make their decisions; However, even today, there is a large gap in the personalization of education and learning in schools.
This is largely due to the massification of classrooms that make this task impossible, but there is also a point of ignorance and “inertia” that exhausts the few possibilities that exist in a conventional school.
Einstein’s phrase is well known
“We’re all great. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb trees, will he spend his whole life thinking it’s stupid?
Let’s write this down and start exploring each of our strengths.