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		<title>Napoleon Technique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Napoleon Technique
A Problem Solving technique. It is a specific application of modelling and is related to the Acting as If technique.
Take on the persona of someone important and try to solve the problem from that persons point of view. Your new identity may give you a new perspective on your problem. Eg what would Napoleon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nevintaylor.com/how-to/napoleon-technique/</link>
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		<title>Character Strengths 1 &#8211; Curiosity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Curiosity 
Read the description and rate your self either by putting a mark on the line where you are between the two anchor points &#8220;unlike me and like me&#8221; or you can rate yourself out of 10 unlike me = 0 and like me = 10.
If this is closer to being like you then it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nevintaylor.com/self-awareness/character-strengths-1-curiosity/</link>
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		<title>Mental Health &#8211; As Positive Psychology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Psychology is not entirely about studying what can go wrong for people, their pathologies, weaknesses and damage but is also about strengths and virtues at subjective, individual and group levels. Treatments are viewed as fixing the broken but can be about encouraging and nurturing what is best.
Mental health as a Utopian ideal goes back to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nevintaylor.com/happiness/mental-health-as-positive-psychology/</link>
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		<title>Mental Health &#8211; As Above Normal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mental Health as Above Normal
Freud dismissed mental health as “an ideal fiction” and the study of normal adaptive behaviour did not begin to be researched until after WWII.
Johoda 1958 suggested that a mentally healthy person was:

In touch with their own identity and feelings.
Future orientated and invested in life.
Be psychologically resistant to stress.
Be autonomous, perceive reality [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nevintaylor.com/self-awareness/mental-health-as-above-normal/</link>
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		<title>Normality and Mental Health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Normality and Mental Health
Often when people are talking about being normal they are referring to their Mental Health.
There are a number of different models of mental health:

As Above Normal
As Positive Psychology
As Subjective Well-Being
As Maturity
As Social-Emotional Intelligence
As Resilience






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		<link>http://www.nevintaylor.com/uncategorized/normality-and-mental-health/</link>
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		<title>Normatology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Normatology is the study of normal development and behaviour. It provides the answer to the age old question &#8211; what is normal?
There are 5 main Models
The Absence of Pathology Model
The Utopian Model
The Statistical Model
The Systems Model
The Pragmatic Model

The Absence of Pathology Model
The absence of symptoms, signs and lab abnormalities connate normality.
A healthy person is reasonably [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nevintaylor.com/happiness/normatology/</link>
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		<title>Rule of Five</title>
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Rule of Five
Do five things everyday that will move you toward your goal completion until you reach the goal.
Achieving external Goals may be different from making internal change and there may be a reinforcement schedule that determines the effectiveness of internal change strategies as for some happiness techniques.



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		<link>http://www.nevintaylor.com/how-to/rule-of-five/</link>
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		<title>ABCs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ABCs
In my work many people experience an event (A &#8211; Activating event) and are aware of the outcome
(C &#8211; consequences) but give little thought to their own responses (B &#8211; beliefs) that may occur before the outcome.
You can blame the event for the lack of outcome or you can change your response to the event [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nevintaylor.com/how-to/abcs/</link>
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		<title>Give Up All your Excuses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Give Up All your Excuses
Give up all the victim stories.
Give up all the reasons why you cant.
Give up all the reasons why you haven’t.
Give up blaming all outside circumstances.
You have the power to make it different, but you have chosen not to exercise that power. Why is this? It is not even important. It doesn’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nevintaylor.com/mind-management/give-up-all-your-excuses/</link>
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		<title>Friends and Partners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having Friends and Partners
Having breadth and depth in personal relationships is vital to our mental health and overall happiness.
Supportive co workers, friendly neighbours, confidants and very close friends protect us from sadness, loneliness low self esteem.
Social Capital is all the support, trust and good will we accumulate by way of our relationships and community involvement. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nevintaylor.com/happiness/friends-and-partners/</link>
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