Table 1.

Intervention details and weekly topics

Seligman group intervention
Week 1: Increasing satisfaction about the past	Recognize responsibility in past events, express gratitude, and practice forgiveness.
Week 2: Enhancing happiness in the present	Plan pleasurable activities and identify activities that lead to ‘flow’ experiences.
Week 3: Optimism about the future	Notice negative thoughts and events as they occur, and then reframe them in a more positive and controllable way.
Week 4: Renewing strength and virtue	Identify a ‘signature strength’ from a list of 24 personal strengths.
Week 5: Valuing and using strengths and virtues	Use a signature strength in daily activities and identify strengths in their partners and children.
Week 6: Enhancing meaning in life	Use a signature strength in a way that furthers a cause larger than oneself.
Lyubomirsky group intervention
Week 1: Experiencing positive emotions	Consciously work to act as though happy, reflect upon and savor positive life events, and practice five acts of kindness.
Week 2: Enhancing social relationships and physical activity	Nurture social relationships through being open, making eye contact, and consciously acknowledging friends and loved ones. Create a physical activity plan to exercise at a moderate pace for most days of the week.
Week 3: Cultivating optimism and gratitude	Visualize best possible future self, and identify and record events for which you are grateful.
Week 4: Developing positive coping skills	Consider the insignificance of daily worries 150 years from now, and use this realization to divert social comparison and over-thinking. Reframe cardiac or other negative life events as a way to improve yourself.
Week 5: Forgiveness and spirituality	Identify and forgive others by contemplating their motives for engaging in hurtful behavior. Practice prayer or another spiritual activity daily.
Week 6: Commitment to goals, flow, and mindfulness	Develop a plan to work toward a personal goal, to spend more time in high-challenge, high-skill situations in order to increase ‘flow experiences’, and to meditate daily
Fordyce group intervention
Week 1: Increasing activity and social relationships	Increase the time engaged in enjoyable activities, socialize with others, and enhance close relationships by maintaining communication.
Week 2: Increasing productivity and organization	Enhance productivity and organizational skills by identifying, prioritizing, and completing daily activities that are gratifying and important.
Week 3: Reducing worry and setting realistic goals	Record worrying thoughts and notice whether they come true. Set attainable goals for the week and notice how it feels to achieve or not achieve those goals.
Week 4: Cultivating optimism and focusing on the present	Positively reframe several past events, present situations, and future goals. Focus attention on the present and really experience the sensations of sight, touch, sound, and smell.
Week 5: Focusing on positive personality traits	Overcome fears about others’ opinions, accept yourself, and initiate contact with people you would like to meet, in order to foster authenticity, self-esteem and extraversion.
Week 6: Prioritizing positive thoughts and feelings	Make happiness a priority by acknowledging and then setting aside negative emotions, as well as performing acts that bring happiness into your life.