Over the past two decades, the field of positive psychology has grown substantially and has shown great promise as a new approach to mental health care. Positive psychiatry is closely allied with positive psychology and shares many overlapping constructs and aims. New approaches are greatly needed, as we are facing many crises in mental health that a traditional pathology-focused approach has not been able to sufficiently address. This has particular relevance for people of color in the United States, for whom there are significant disparities in mental health care that traditional models of care have been ineffective in addressing. Authors have called for the development of culturally relevant preventive mental health interventions that are both practical and sustainable in order to overcome disparities in mental health-care services. Though its applicability to multicultural populations has been understudied, positive psychology’s emphasis on strengths over deficits and its core virtues resonate broadly across most cultures. It is important to recognize, however, that many minority cultures including African American, Latino, and Native American in the United States are fundamentally collectivistic with some variations in their culture and possess which has been described as key adaptive strengths that play a central role in supporting mental health. Positive psychology interventions that emphasize and support these adaptive strengths and collectivist values in addition to building the core constructs outlined by Seligman hold great promise as strategies to address the mental health needs of multicultural populations and to enable the provision of high-quality, culturally competent care.