Personal Project Pursuit: On Human Doings and Well-Beings

Handbook of Motivational Counseling: Concepts, Approaches, and Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 65-82

  Little, Brian R ^a   Chambers, Neil C ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Augmenting motivational counseling; Personal projects; Personal projects analysis; Personally salient action; Self defining passions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948948610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713129.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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