[Ailist] Ai and Mental Health

[Nancy Goodman]

I use AI in mental health all the time.  All the time.  I actually have a work-in-progress
"appreciative intake form" where instead of asking what's wrong (as in--circle the following...), I ask a) what's right, and b) what they'd like more of.  

I write a weekly column for my local paper, and while I haven't written about AI specifically yet, I definitely take an AI-style philosophy (along with Viktor Frankl, Joseph Campbell, Positive Psychology and all the other associated theories I link to AI regularly).  http://vocatusidaho.blogspot.com.  I'd love to talk about this more!  

Nancy

VOCATUS
Nancy Goodman, LPC, NCC
Appreciative Inquiry facilitator
845 West Center, Suite 306
Pocatello, Idaho     83204
208-478-1414; goodnanc at yahoo.com
http://vocatusidaho.blogspot.com
http://pocatellogardening.blogspot.com

"You have to let go of the life you've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for you." --Joseph Campbell

"Don't Panic."--The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Vocatus," meaning "Called," is the Latin root origin of such words as vocation and evoke.  What calls you?  




--- On Thu, 4/16/09, Nick Heap <nick at nickheap.co.uk> wrote:

From: Nick Heap <nick at nickheap.co.uk>
Subject: [Ailist] Ai and Mental Health
To: "Appreciative Inquiry" <ailist at lists.business.utah.edu>
Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009, 8:04 AM

Dear All

I was wondering if you know of any appreciative work in the area of mental
health?

I could imagine appreciative interviews of the most mentally healthy people
you could find would be very illuminating. It would be interesting to try
and define mental health too. Positive psychology is a counterweight to the
current deficit thinking on mental illness, but I think this might go
further

At the moment this is just the germ of an idea, so any thoughts,
connections, resources or ideas would be very welcome. If you wanted to do
something, how might you go about it?

Best wishes,

Nick Heap

Web: www.nickheap.co.uk
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