Making Positive Change: A Randomized Study Comparing Solution-Focused vs. Problem-Focused Coaching Questions

By Adam M. Grant. 2012

126 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b557717b3c45e27168468c75a702dedc283f45bb

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In Applied Psychology

1. Sina Gessnitzer
2. Simone Kauffeld
3. Gary Husband

In Clinical Psychology

1. Sina Gessnitzer
2. Simone Kauffeld
3. Gary Husband

Citations in the corpus

• The Working Alliance in Coaching (2015, background): “In our study, clients set between one and three personal coaching goals and defined their original degree of goal attainment on a scale from 1 = goal not at all achieved to 10 = goal perfectly achieved in the first coaching session (similar to the approach of Grant, 2012).”
• Positive psychology interventions: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled studies (2013, unknown): “Half of the studies, 19 in total, recruited the subjects (not necessarily students) through university [29,32,34,51,56,5861,64-68,70,72,75,80,85].”
• Ethical Data Collection and Recognizing the Impact of Semi-Structured Interviews on Research Respondents (2020, background): “In situations and planned interventions designed to bring about a change in thinking or behavior, such as counselling [37] and coaching [38], questioning is used in many different ways.”