Occupational Health & Safety OH&S Conference

Abstract

Happiness and the new science of happiness, Positive Psychology, is an important and very current topic. For most of it's history psychology has focussed on the problems of the human mind, such as anxiety and depression. In contrast Positive Psychology looks at helping people to identify their strengths to enable them to thrive. The WHO predicts that by 2020 mental health issues will be the 2 nd leading cause of morbidity in the world, affecting 30% of all adults 1 .