Strengths-Based Career Counseling: Overview and Initial Evaluation

Journal of Career Assessment

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 403-419

  Littman Ovadia, Hadassah ^a   Lazar Butbul, Vered ^a   Benjamin, Benny A ^b  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Israel National Employment Service   (Israel)

Author keywords

career exploration; job seekers; life satisfaction; self esteem; strengths based career counseling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907202878     PISSN: 10690727     EISSN: 15524590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069072713498483     Document Type: Article

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