The American Graduate University

The Globe's Only Distance Learning, Recognized, Accelerated,

and Accredited Degree and Board Certification Programs

in Positive Psychology and Human Behavior!

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Voted Best Positive Psychology Credentialing

Program in the World!

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"Positivity can uniquely revitalize your worldview...your mental energy...your relationships...and your potential."

Barbara Fredrickson

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Positive psychology is to the 21st century what traditional psychology was to the 20th century!

We have learned that traditional psychology's focus on pathology is flawed; it sometimes worsens human misery rather than relieves it!

Positive psychology's focus on positive mental health and well-being has proved to be the better model to teach people how to flourish in life!

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Request Your Free Program Guide Today!

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Receive a $3,000 Scholarship if You
Enroll by May 31, 2013!

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You are invited to join our

Community of Positive Psychology

Scholars, Practitioners, and Diplomates!

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Begin Your Studies at Any Time!

We do not operate on an antiquated semester or school-year basis! Your assigned mentor is ready to begin working with you today!

Published Author Program!

Upon completion of your master's or doctoral degree program, you will have written your first book. We will show you how to create your own website for your book and make it available to the public as an ebook for purchase and downloading. As a published author, your professionalism and credibility will be greatly enhanced.

Program Distinctives

Our Online Programs replicate, broaden and improve on the MAAP program at the University of Pennsylvania for a fraction of the cost.

Our programs are based on the works of Seligman, Peterson, Fredrickson, Lyubomirsky, Deiner and other leading positive psychology scholars and researchers.

This results in a depth and breadth of study far greater than the MAPP or any other university positive psychology program in the world at a fraction of the cost and in less than 1 year's time.

Our ONLINE programs rely extensively on the material provided by the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania where the MAPP program resides.

We also assist our graduates in the establishment of their own Positive Psychology Private Practice. To learn more, please contact us today

Here are the 8 key components of our program:

1. Entirely distance learning
2. Board Certification
3. Master (MPsy)©
4. PhD
5. Private Practice Assistance and Guidance
6. Low Cost
7. Individual Mentoring (the Oxford Tutorial Method)
8. Learning by reading, research, and written papers
(the Sorbonne Art of Study)

From Martin E.P. Seligman, PhD, Father of the Positive Psychology Movement

START QUOTE "You assuredly do not need to be a licensed psychologist to practice positive psychology or to be a coach.

Freud's followers made the momentous error of restricting psychoanalysis to physicians, and positive psychology is not intended as an umbrella for yet another self-protective guild.

If you are adequately trained in the techniques of coaching, in the theories of positive psychology, in valid measurement of the positive states and traits, in the interventions that work, and you know when to refer a client to someone who is more appropriately trained, you will be, by my lights, bona fide disseminators of positive psychology." END QUOTE

We should resist any effort to have government "regulate" or "license" the practice of positive psychology or coaching as it would stifle innovation, progress, and the effectiveness of the discipline.

The marketplace will decide who is or isn't an effective coach or positive psychology practitioner, or anything else for that matter.

Anything government touches is made worse, most especially education and training. (See the "Higher Education Conspiracy" video posted on this website).

Let us not be sheep and instead resist all efforts to create licensing or government regulation for these relatively new fields of study and practice.

Executive Summary

We are pleased to offer this unique distance learning educational opportunity

Each of these programs may be completed ONLINE in 10 months:

1. MASTER AND BOARD CERTIFIED PRACTITIONER:
     Board Certified Practitioner© AND Master of Positive Psychology (MPsy)©
     Educational Prerequisite is Bachelor in any field or the Equivalent
     Investment: $8,291 - $3,000 = $5,291 plus $98 Enrollment Fee

2. PHD AND BOARD CERTIFIED DIPLOMATE:
     Board Certified Diplomate© AND Doctor of Philosophy - Positive Psychology (PhD)
     Educational Prerequisite is Master in any field or the Equivalent
     Investment: $9,291 - $3,000 = $6,291 plus $98 Enrollment Fee

There are no state licensing requirements for the practice of positive psychology, nor should there be. (Government licensing schemes suppress freedom, innovation and progress)

Join The Association of Positive Psychology Practitioners, our parent organization! www.positivepsych.us

People from all backgrounds, occupations, and professions may join The American Graduate University of Positive Psychology and earn Board Certification and/or a degree.

This program is ideal for those who seek self-enrichment, professionals in the life coaching field, teachers, pastors, counselors, therapists, HR professionals, psychologists --- anyone who seeks to enrich his or her own life, help others lead happier and more meaningful lives, develop better relationships, and create success in life.

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up
and look for the circumstances they want and if they
can't find them, make them."

George Bernard Shaw