How does a brief strengths-based group coaching intervention work?

Coaching

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 152-163

  McDowall, Almuth ^a   Butterworth, Lucy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

goal confidence; group coaching; self efficacy; SMART goals; strengths knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907458616     PISSN: 17521882     EISSN: 17521890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17521882.2014.953560     Document Type: Article

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