ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
The Practice of Character Strengths: Unifying Definitions, Principles, and Exploration of What's Soaring, Emerging, and Ripe With Potential in Science and in Practice.
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- Evaluating the role of strengths and protective factors for youth with FASD and criminal legal system involvement: a scoping review.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2026Article
- A content analysis of caregiver perspectives on strengths and protective factors in youth with FASD and criminal legal system involvement.Health & justice · 2025Article
- Developing Traits of Self-Confidence and Intrinsic Motivation in Students with Severe Special Educational Needs in Physical Education Lessons.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Personality Functioning Strengths: Reimagining Personality Strengths in Mental Health.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2025Article
- The effects of listening on speaker and listener while talking about character strengths: an open science school-wide collaboration.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Perinatal interventions to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): A scoping review.PloS one · 2024Article
- Use of theatresports to promote positive education among youth participants.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Beyond the "Third Wave of Positive Psychology": Challenges and Opportunities for Future Research.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
What does it mean to be "strengths-based" or to be a "strengths-based practitioner?" These are diffuse areas that are generic and ill-defined. Part of the confusion arises from the customary default of practitioners and leaders across many cultures to label anything positive or complimentary as "strengths-based," whether that be an approach, a theoretical orientation, an intervention, or a company. Additional muddle is created by many researchers and practitioners not making distinctions between very different categories of "strength" in human beings - strengths of character, of talent/ability, of interest/passion, of skill/competency, to name a few. To add clarity and unification across professions, we offer seven characteristics and a comprehensive definition for a character strengths-based practitioner. We center on the type of strength referred to as character strengths and explore six guiding principles for understanding character strengths (e.g., character is plural; character is being and doing) and their practical corollaries. Reflecting this foundation and based on character strengths research, our longstanding work with strengths, discussions with practitioners across the globe, and a practitioner survey asking about strength practices (
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