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Strengths Based Coaching—A Positive Psychology Intervention

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Theoretical Approaches to Multi-Cultural Positive Psychological Interventions

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Strengths approaches have grow in popularity over the past decade, with a profileration of writing, models and questionnaires used for strengths assessment and in coaching. These questionnaires include including VIA, Strengthscope and StrengthsFinder and Strengths Profile. The questionnaires have become a popular intervention for consultants, HR professionals and executive coaches for adding both personal development and coaching, to assisting with recruitment and selection. We will briefly review in the first section of this chapter three popular questionnaires, considering their development and constructs. In the second section we will explore positive psychology coaching as an intervention using questionnaires and strengths cards, before reviewing the research evidence and opportunities for future research.

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    Jolanta Burke

  2. Henley Business School, University of Reading, Henley on Thames, UK

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Burke, J., Passmore, J. (2019). Strengths Based Coaching—A Positive Psychology Intervention. In: Van Zyl, L., Rothmann Sr., S. (eds) Theoretical Approaches to Multi-Cultural Positive Psychological Interventions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20583-6_21

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