ROBERT BISWAS-DIENER, MS, holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Pacific University and, in 2005, founded Meridian Life Coaching, LLC, to provide life coaching services to a wide range of academics and professionals. He is known as the “Indiana Jones of positive psychology,” with his studies taking him to such far-flung destinations as Greenland, Spain, Kenya, Israel, and India, where he has worked with remote groups of people traditionally overlooked by researchers. He is the coauthor, with Ben Dean, of Positive Psychology Coaching: Putting the Science of Happiness to Work for Your Clients (published by Wiley) and, with his father, Ed Diener, of Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth, (published by Wiley-Blackwell).

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• Acknowledgments viiChapter One Education to Empowerment: An Introduction to Applying Positive Psychology Coaching 1Chapter Two Using Your Best to Make You Better 19Chapter Three Harnessing Positivity 39Chapter Four Making Molehills out of Mountains: Coaching Goals and Hope for the Future 59Chapter Five Positive Diagnosis 75Chapter Six Positive Assessment 99Chapter Seven Gray Hairs and Gravestones: Positive Psychology Coaching Across the Lifespan 125Chapter Eight The Practice of Positive Psychology Coaching 145Endnotes 153Author Index 163Subject Index 165

ROBERT BISWAS-DIENER, MS, holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Pacific University and, in 2005, founded Meridian Life Coaching, LLC, to provide life coaching services to a wide range of academics and professionals. He is known as the “Indiana Jones of positive psychology,” with his studies taking him to such far-flung destinations as Greenland, Spain, Kenya, Israel, and India, where he has worked with remote groups of people traditionally overlooked by researchers. He is the coauthor, with Ben Dean, of Positive Psychology Coaching: Putting the Science of Happiness to Work for Your Clients (published by Wiley) and, with his father, Ed Diener, of Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth, (published by Wiley-Blackwell).

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• Acknowledgments viiChapter One Education to Empowerment: An Introduction to Applying Positive Psychology Coaching 1Chapter Two Using Your Best to Make You Better 19Chapter Three Harnessing Positivity 39Chapter Four Making Molehills out of Mountains: Coaching Goals and Hope for the Future 59Chapter Five Positive Diagnosis 75Chapter Six Positive Assessment 99Chapter Seven Gray Hairs and Gravestones: Positive Psychology Coaching Across the Lifespan 125Chapter Eight The Practice of Positive Psychology Coaching 145Endnotes 153Author Index 163Subject Index 165

ROBERT BISWAS-DIENER, MS, holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Pacific University and, in 2005, founded Meridian Life Coaching, LLC, to provide life coaching services to a wide range of academics and professionals. He is known as the “Indiana Jones of positive psychology,” with his studies taking him to such far-flung destinations as Greenland, Spain, Kenya, Israel, and India, where he has worked with remote groups of people traditionally overlooked by researchers. He is the coauthor, with Ben Dean, of Positive Psychology Coaching: Putting the Science of Happiness to Work for Your Clients (published by Wiley) and, with his father, Ed Diener, of Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth, (published by Wiley-Blackwell).

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• Acknowledgments viiChapter One Education to Empowerment: An Introduction to Applying Positive Psychology Coaching 1Chapter Two Using Your Best to Make You Better 19Chapter Three Harnessing Positivity 39Chapter Four Making Molehills out of Mountains: Coaching Goals and Hope for the Future 59Chapter Five Positive Diagnosis 75Chapter Six Positive Assessment 99Chapter Seven Gray Hairs and Gravestones: Positive Psychology Coaching Across the Lifespan 125Chapter Eight The Practice of Positive Psychology Coaching 145Endnotes 153Author Index 163Subject Index 165