Book Review
Title: Practicing Positive Psychology Coaching: Assessment, Activities and Strategies for Success
Author: Robert Biswas-Diener
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 978 0470 53676 4
Usefulness *****
When learning about positive psychology coaching, coaches should learn about the most useful positive psychological research, as well as its best possible application. With Robert Biswas-Diener you get both.
In this book you will learn how to use advanced goal-setting strategies effectively with your clients, how to access the hidden power of hope theory to influence how they think about their future, how to work effectively with their strengths, how to increase their self-esteem, their levels of happiness, their creativity and much more. In addition, you will also learn about how to practise positive psychology coaching in organisational and work settings as well as in a life coaching setting.
Being an expert in positive psychology, a researcher and a coach, the author has integrated the science and the art of positive psychological coaching and shared his insights from his coaching practice, so both new and experienced coaches can tap into its enormous potential. He is a marvellous storyteller and a brilliant writer.
Use the many exercises and recommendations to help you in your own personal and professional development, and get tips on marketing your own positive psychological coaching practice. Highly recommended.
Jens Boris Larsen is chair of the Society of Evidence-based Coaching, Danish Psychological Association