A positive way of addressing negatives: Using strengths-based interventions in coaching and therapy

Happiness, Healing, Enhancement: Your Casebook Collection for Applying Positive Psychology in Therapy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 291-302

  Biswas Diener, Robert ^a,b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b United Kingdom based Centre for Applied Positive Psychology   (United States)

Author keywords

Job performance; Negativity bias; Positive psychology; Positive psychotherapy; Therapeutic clientele

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886976255     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118269664.ch24     Document Type: Chapter

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