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How To Appply PERMA Model

The PERMA model is a framework that employs five elements - positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishments - to achieve long-lasting happiness and well-being. When these elements are incorporated into one's life, they can help develop resilience and the ability to adapt well during difficult times. The document outlines each component of the PERMA model and how cultivating relationships, finding meaning through one's work or family, and achieving goals can improve well-being and allow people to respond healthily to stress. Resilient individuals focus on relationships with others and enjoyable activities rather than just work.

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How To Appply PERMA Model

The PERMA model is a framework that employs five elements - positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishments - to achieve long-lasting happiness and well-being. When these elements are incorporated into one's life, they can help develop resilience and the ability to adapt well during difficult times. The document outlines each component of the PERMA model and how cultivating relationships, finding meaning through one's work or family, and achieving goals can improve well-being and allow people to respond healthily to stress. Resilient individuals focus on relationships with others and enjoyable activities rather than just work.

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How to Apply the PERMA Model to Develop Resilience and Well-being

Nellie Forman, M.D., M.S., Samuel Yanofsky M.D., M.S. Ed., Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

PERMA Model Components


Importance of PERMA Model Positive Emotions Feeling love, joy, and pleasure.
This element encourages us to
• The PERMA Model is a framework in positive focus on optimism and view
psychology that employs five core elements to life with a constructive
flourish and achieve long-lasting happiness. perspective. Rather than
focusing on “the lows” in life,
• Application of PERMA can help us lead a life full of we should embrace positive
meaning, fulfillment and happiness. emotions and be hopeful about
future outcomes.
• The five components of PERMA provide a Engagement Being in flow and focused on
framework in order to create a genuine and consistent our activities. This element
state of contentment. encourages us to be present
during activities and attempt to
• When we feel positive emotions, we perform better, find a state of “flow” or
develop stronger relationships, and have better self- immersion into a task.
regulation. Relationships Having healthy, supportive,
and rewarding connections
• Finding flow is when our highest strengths meet our with others. We thrive on
greatest challenges and we feel engaged in our connections and intimacy and
activities. fostering these relationships is
critical to finding happiness.
• Achievement helps build self-esteem and provides a Meaning Giving significance to the
sense of accomplishment. events in our lives. This can
come in the form of religion,
profession, raising children,
Resilience volunteer work, etc.
• Resilience allows us to adapt well in the face of Considering the impact of our
adversity, trauma, tragedy and sources of threat. lives can help us live a life of
fulfillment.
• Developing resilience allows us to respond to stress in Accomplishments Attaining goals that support
a healthy and adaptive manner so that personal goals our core values. Setting and
are achieved at minimum psychological and physical reaching our goals can give us
cost. a sense of accomplishment.
These achievements can give
• Resilient physicians focus their energy on cultivating us a sense of fulfillment and
relationships with family and friends and spend their pride when they have been
time doing enjoyable activities. reached.

References:
1. Seligman, M. E. P. Flourish: A visionary new understanding of happiness and well-being. Free Press, 2011.
2. Zwack J, Schweitzer J. If Every Fifth Physician Is Affected by Burnout, What About the Other Four? Resilience
Strategies of Experienced Physicians. Academic Medicine, Vol. 88, No. 3, March 2013 .

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