{"id":1044,"date":"2015-07-30T15:37:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T13:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2015-07-30T15:37:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T13:37:50","slug":"improving-positive-affect-in-a-practical-manner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"Improving Positive Affect in a Practical Manner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Modern Medicine - July 2015 Edition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/DigitalEditions\/mm1507-july-2015\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Improving Positive Affect in a Practical Manner\u00a0\u2013 MM1507<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the years positive psychology\u00a0has placed strong emphasis on how\u00a0positive affect can improve health.\u00a0This prompted Vista Clinic to develop\u00a0the Happiness HELPS campaign as a\u00a0means of improving positive affect in\u00a0patients. The aim of the campaign is\u00a0to promote mental health and to reduce\u00a0the symptoms of depression. The\u00a0Happiness HELPS concept consists of\u00a0a set of practical actions that can be\u00a0carried out on a daily basis in order to\u00a0combat the negative emotional affects of\u00a0depression and anxiety.\u00a0The acronym \u201cHELPS\u201d provides an\u00a0easy-to-follow guide which can be used\u00a0by everyone to promote and maintain\u00a0their mental health.<br \/>\nHELPS stands for:<br \/>\n\u2022 Help Others<br \/>\n\u2022 Exercise<br \/>\n\u2022 Learn<br \/>\n\u2022 Play<br \/>\n\u2022 Spiritual Growth<\/p>\n<p><em>Modern Medicine \u2013 July 2015<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improving Positive Affect in a Practical Manner\u00a0\u2013 MM1507 Over the years positive psychology\u00a0has placed strong emphasis on how\u00a0positive affect can improve health.\u00a0This prompted Vista Clinic to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"beyondwords_generate_audio":"","beyondwords_project_id":"","beyondwords_content_id":"","beyondwords_preview_token":"","beyondwords_player_content":"","beyondwords_player_style":"","beyondwords_language_code":"","beyondwords_language_id":"","beyondwords_title_voice_id":"","beyondwords_body_voice_id":"","beyondwords_summary_voice_id":"","beyondwords_error_message":"","beyondwords_disabled":"","beyondwords_delete_content":"","beyondwords_podcast_id":"","beyondwords_hash":"","publish_post_to_speechkit":"","speechkit_hash":"","speechkit_generate_audio":"","speechkit_project_id":"","speechkit_podcast_id":"","speechkit_error_message":"","speechkit_disabled":"","speechkit_access_key":"","speechkit_error":"","speechkit_info":"","speechkit_response":"","speechkit_retries":"","speechkit_status":"","speechkit_updated_at":"","_speechkit_link":"","_speechkit_text":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychiatry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5REYo-gQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}