Vol 10, No 1, 2011 pp. 101-110
UDC 177
FUNDING HAPPINESS: A STUDY OF THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE PUBLIC FUNDING OF LIFE ENHANCEMENT
Morgan Luck1, Justin Harrison2
1School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia
E-mail: moluck@csu.edu.au
2School of Psychology, Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia
jharriso@csu.edu.au
In this paper we scrutinise the claim that interventions arising from positive psychology are always justified in and of themselves (Duckworth, Steen & Seligman, 2005). We claim that it is not morally justifiable for public funding bodies, charged with increasing community wellbeing, to support life enhancement/coaching practises over therapeutic practises. To support this claim we establish intuitive, theoretical, and pragmatic arguments.
Key words: applied psychology, social policy, resilience, public funding, intervention, enhancement, therapeutic, justification.
PRIKUPLJANJE SREDSTAVA ZA SREĆU:
PREGLED ARGUMENATA PROTIV JAVNOG PRIKUPLJANJA SREDSTAVA ZA POBOLJŠANJE KVALITETA ŽIVOTA
U ovom radu analiziramo stav da su intervencije koje potiču iz pozitivne psihologije uvek opravdane same po sebi (Duckworth, Steen & Seligman, 2005). Tvrdimo da to nije moralno opravdano za tela koja se bave javnim prikupljanjem sredstava, čiji je zadatak da poboljšaju dobrobit društva, da podrže poboljšanje uslova života/daje savete u toku terapijskog lečenja. Kao podrška ovoj tezi predstavljamo intuitivne, teorijske i pragmatske argumente.
Ključne reči: primenjena psihologija; društveni zakon; otpornost; javno prikupljanje sredstava; intervencije; poboljšanje; terapija; opravdanje
