Evidence-Based Well-Being/Positive Psychology Assessment and Intervention with Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching and the Quality of Life Inventory (QOLI)

• Published in: Social indicators research Vol. 114; no. 2; pp. 193 - 227
• Main Author: Frisch, Michael B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer 01.11.2013; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Association (Psychology); Clinical psychology; Clinical trials; Coaching; Cognitive psychology; Cognitive Restructuring; Control Groups; Delivery Systems; Depressive disorders; Evidence; Evidence Based Practice; Happiness; Health care; Health Problems; History, theory and methodology; Human Geography; Intervention; Inventories; Life Satisfaction; Mental depression; Methodology; Microeconomics; Modeling (Psychology); Personality. Social role; Progress Monitoring; Psychoeducational intervention; Psychological research; Psychology; Psychotherapy; Public Health; Quality of Health Care; Quality of Life; Quality of Life Research; Randomized Controlled Trials; Research Applications; Resistance (Psychology); Social Indicators; Social psychology; Social Sciences; Sociology; Studies; Task forces; Teaching Methods; Transplants & implants; Treatment Methods; Well Being; Wellbeing; Subjective well-being; Happiness; Well-being; Organizational coaching; Coaching; Positive psychology, positive psychology intervention; Quality of life; Life satisfaction; Organizational psychology; Evidence-based practice; Psychotherapy; Literature review; Quality of Life; Psychological well-being
• ISSN: 0303-8300; 1573-0921
• DOI: 10.1007/s11205-012-0140-7

Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching (also known as Quality of Life Therapy) is a comprehensive, manualized, theory-based, and, according to Diener (2013) and Seligman (Flourish, Free Press, NY, 2011, p. 292), evidence-based approach to well being, happiness, and positive psychology intervention suitable for both coaching and clinical applications. Clients are taught strategies and skills aimed at helping them to identify, pursue, and fulfill their most cherished needs, goals, and wishes in sixteen valued areas of life said to comprise human well-being and happiness. Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching is "manualized" in the form of the book entitled Quality of Life Therapy (Frisch 2006), providing step-by-step instruction in assessing well-being, tailoring interventions, and monitoring progress, outcome, and follow-up with the evidence-based well-being assessment, the Quality of Life Inventory or QOLI®. This article describes Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching and reviews developments and research since the publication of the manual in 2006. Randomized controlled trials bearing on the empirical support of Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching and the related assessment, the Quality of Life Inventory, are reviewed. The steps in Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching are delineated in the context of an illustrative case and an underlying theory which attempts to integrate findings from the fields of well-being, positive psychology, happiness, quality of life, social indicators research, psychotherapy, and coaching. Future applications and research are suggested which may identify the effective components of Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching and assess their direct impact on health and illness, encourage the use of evidence-based assessments and interventions on the part of well being coaches and therapists, and create health care delivery systems in which well being assessments and interventions are conducted concurrently with symptom-oriented tests and treatments.