Objective In psychotherapy, strength-based methods (SBM) represent efforts to build on
patients' strengths while addressing the deficits and challenges that led them to come to …

Objective: This meta-analysis addressed the efficacy of psychotherapeutic interventions to
help people forgive others and to examine moderators of treatment effects. Method: Eligible …

Counseling psychologists often work with clients to increase their well-being as well as to
decrease their distress. One important aspect of well-being, highlighted particularly in …

Exciting advances have been made in the study of psychological and subjective well-being.
However, this literature has, curiously, had minimal impact on clinical/counseling practice or …

Although the past decade has witnessed growing research interest in positive psychological
interventions (PPIs), their potential as adjunctive interventions for psychotherapy remains …

A distinctive feature and unifying theme of the work of counseling psychologists is a focus on
client strengths, assets, and potentialities regardless of the degree of psychopathology. As …

Despite the frequent use of encouragement in everyday social life, encouragement remains
an understudied topic in positive psychology and counseling psychology. To address this …

Despite calls for a more preventive and developmental mode of functioning, school
counseling has tended to be driven by a reactive and sometimes crisis orientation. Like …

Abstract This article describes Strength-Centered Therapy, a new therapeutic model based
on the positive psychology of character strengths and virtues as well as social constructionist …

Gelso and Woodhouse highlight a lack of empirical efforts to bring a core identity of
counseling psychology, the use of client strengths, into therapy. Additionally, the positive …