title: Comprehensive Soldier Fitness and the future of psychology.
abstract: Psychology responded to the national needs in World War I and World War II and was itself transformed. National need calls a third time: unprecedented levels of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, suicide, and anxiety along with a need for a resilient Army capable of meeting the persistent warfare of the foreseeable future. As a large part of the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program, positive psychology is meeting this need with new tests, with new fitness courses, and with resilience training. These developments may transform the practice of psychology and psychology's relation to medicine and education.
authors.affiliation: Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 19104, USA. seligman@psych.upenn.edu
authors.forename: Martin E P
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Seligman
authors.forename: Raymond D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Fowler
mesh_terms: D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D011584:Psychology / Q000639:trends*; D011592:Psychology, Military / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D014481:United States