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Judy Krings, Ph.D., CMC, PCC

Must read for all positive psychology learners and everyone else! Terrific gift, too.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 3, 2018

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No one, repeat no one, ignites the prowess and fun of optimal character strengths development than Ryan Niemiec. This fabulous treasure chest of a field guide book of practical positive psychology strengths interventions should be a mandatory read for anyone interesting in how to develop well-being success strategies. "Character Strengths Interventions" is a beacon of light for anyone wanting to add value and richness to enhance flourishing the fun, intersting way. Practical, doable and delightfully engaging, this book speaks your learning to thrive language. Niemiec rocks resources for you and positive psychology practitioners, too. Want to improve your own life satisfaction, rev up your relationships, feel more engaged at work? This is the first book for your upbeat reading list. You will love the real life stories and rich narrative. I recommend this book to all my positive psychology students and to all my clients and friends, too. This book is the perfect gift for anyone who want to add hope, zest, meaning, and mindful learning to upward spiral their positivity. An A+ read!

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pcpf

Excellent resource for coaches

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 1, 2021

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A thorough resource on using the VIA strengths. Excellent for a coaching practice as it gives practical exercises (interventions) to give to clients.

The book includes information on how to present the tools to clients, and most importantly it provides the 70 strengths interventions with handouts for practitioners to give to their clients.

I particularly enjoyed the tailored interventions which group a handful of interventions to use for specific situations that you may encounter in coaching such as: “boosting happiness”, overcoming “languishing “ etc.

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RBD

Niemic does an excellent job reviewing the relevant research

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 16, 2017

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Dr. Niemic has created what I believe is the most comprehensive and sophisticated book on using strengths published to date. He uses the VIA assessment of character strengths as the center piece for discussing strengths intervention but this book is appropriate to people using any strengths assessment or intervention strategy. Niemic does an excellent job reviewing the relevant research. Unlike many previous publications on strengths, however, he discusses conceptual ways to translate these research findings into day-to-day therapy and coaching practice. He synthesizes the best thinking from the leading scholars in the topic and adds his own expertise and experience to create a practical guide that attends to situations, culture, language, identity, and other critical aspects of strengths. The book is primarily intended for individual practitioners and is not heavy on attention to team strengths. Despite this, the book is a must for anyone who endeavors to use strengths in their practice.

18 people found this helpful

Book-it!

Practical, positive and compelling

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 31, 2017

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Exactly the book I was looking for! The book begins with a brief explanation of the concept of character strengths and how to help children and adults grow and flourish by using their strengths as tools, rather than defining them by their weaknesses. The author then offers concrete examples of how character traits may be used for personal and professional growth, exploring optimal use, overuse and underuse, and offering a variety of intervention strategies. This book is extremely helpful to me as an educator but appears to also be written with therapists, social workers or other clinicians in mind. An expensive purchase but one I will refer back to often.

18 people found this helpful

Jan Ireland, MRC, CFNC, FMCHC

and tools - a joy to read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 21, 2017

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If you know anything about VIA Character Strengths, you're going to want this book. It is the ultimate character strengths practitioner's guide, with enough substantive material to fill a whole series of practitioner books. It's layer upon layer of information, ideas, insights, and tools - a joy to read, and to use.

9 people found this helpful

Dantheman

Worth the high price!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 3, 2018

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This book is pricey, but if you care about your own development or coaching others, it is worth it three or four times over. Lots of informing activities, and descriptions of what is being asked of the reader. I rarely post five-star book reviews, but this book is worth it.

12 people found this helpful

Amazon Customer

Everything you could possibly need!

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on August 17, 2018

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LOVE this book! So many amazing tables, diagrams, and summary sections to break up the text. Such an interesting read, FULL of useful tools and exercises. Every section brings with it applicable and interesting info. You can skip ahead to any section that piques your interest, without having to read the chapter before. It's everything you need to know about Character Strengths in one handy place. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Eduardo Gómez A

Practical activities for workshops is the principal valué of this book of positive psychology

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 28, 2017

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I am applying positive psychology in Costa Rica with workshops and this book have activities that help to Make a practical positive psychology workshop, in Grupo Motiva CR we are happy to fine this recourse.

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Pilar

Detalles de fortalezas de carácter

Reviewed in Mexico 🇲🇽 on September 13, 2017

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El libro me gustó porque el autor habla de varios temas relacionados con las fortalezas de carácter, recolectados a través de varios años de varios estudios. Se lo recomendaría a personas interesadas en profundizar en el tema de las fortalezas de carácter, ahí encontrarán referencias de estudios del tema, así como intervenciones y relación entre fortalezas, así como su sobre utilización o falta de utilización, etc.

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Sehr umfangreiche und hilfreiche Übungen für den achtsamen Umgang mit den Charakterstärken

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on October 13, 2017

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Ryan M. Niemiec hat in sehr strukturierter Weise Mindfulness/Achtsamkeit und das Erkennen und den Umgang mit den Charakterstärken verbunden. Es gibt eine Reihe von Übungen. Viele Verweise auf wissenschaftliche Studien. Eine sehr gute Grundlage, um Mindfulness und Charakterbildung zu vereinen.

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