Duncan Ashten R, Daugherty Grant, Carmichael Gabrielle
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States=.
OU-TU School of Community Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK, United States.
Front Psychol. 2021 Oct 22;12:728797. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.728797. eCollection 2021.
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.
即使新冠疫情对心理健康的负担不断加重，我们的心理健康护理方法在很大程度上仍然是被动反应式的，而非预防性的。这种趋势存在问题，因为全国初级保健提供者的大多数门诊就诊都与未满足的心理健康需求有关。积极心理学有潜力解决心理健康护理中的这些问题，并为初级保健提供者提供更有效地服务患者的策略。积极心理学有许多框架，如希望，可以在候诊室使用简单问卷进行测量。此外，越来越多的神经生物学证据支持了在不同神经元激活模式背景下的积极心理学概念。许多积极心理学工具不仅具有高结构效度，还与可观察到的神经生物学差异相关，这些差异与心理社会功能的差异有关。尽管有目前的证据，但我们仍需要强有力的研究来探索这种心理测量方法和相关干预措施是否能在受控环境之外的患者中产生具有临床意义的良好健康结果。
