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UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVADIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE DELLA FORMAZIONECORSO DI LAUREA IN SCIENZE E TECNICHE PSICOLOGICHECompletate il passo scegliendo, fra le alternative proposte, quelle che sono grammaticalmente corrette e/o più coerenti conil significato della frase (domande da 65 a 72)After 50 years and 30 billion dollars of research,psychologists and psychiatrists can boast that we arenow able to make troubled people less miserable, andthat is surely a significant scientific (65)_________.The downside of this achievement is that a 50-yearfocus on disease and pathology has taken its toll onsociety and on science. In our (66)_________to fix theworst problems that people face, we have(67)_________about the rest of our mission aspsychologists. Approximately 30% of people in theUSA suffer from a severe mental disorder at one time oranother (Kessler et al. 1994) and we have done anexcellent job of (68)_________that 30%. It is time nowto turn to the other 70%. Although these people may notbe experiencing severe pathology, there is goodevidence to indicate that the absence of maladies doesnot constitute happiness (Diener & Lucas 2000). Even ifwe were asymptotically (69)_________at removingdepression, anxiety and anger, that would not result inhappiness. For we believe ‘happiness’ is a conditionover and above the absence of unhappiness. That said,we know very little about how to improve the lives ofthe people (70)_________days are largely free of overtmental dysfunction but are bereft of pleasure,engagement and meaning. We do not know much aboutwhat makes a person optimistic, kind, giving, content,engaged, purposive or brilliant. To (71)_________this,the first author proposed, during his term as President ofthe American Psychological Association in 1998, thatpsychology be just as (72)_________with what is rightwith people as it is with what is wrong. As asupplement to the vast research on the disorders andtheir treatment, we suggest that there should be anequally thorough study of strengths and virtues, and thatwe should work towards developing interventions thatcan help people become lastingly happier.(65)A. accomplishmentB. walkC. fearD. atonementE. worry(67)A. forgettedB. forgetC. forgiveD. forgottenE. forgotted(69)A. judgingB. successfulC. repressedD. blurE. stuttering(71)A. addressB. lackC. fullD. emptyE. discharge(66)A. strengthB. problemC. blameD. timeE. effort(68)A. helpedB. helpC. helpsD. help’sE. helping(70)A. whatB. whichC. whoD. thatE. whose(72)A. luckyB. concernedC. usefulD. belowE. fringeModificato da Seligman, M.E.P., Parks, A.C., Steen, T. (2004). Abalanced psychology and a full life,Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B, 359, 1379970126716861201