Main description:

The Handbook of Coaching Psychology: A Guide for Practitioners provides a clear and extensive guide to the theory, research and practice of coaching psychology.

In this new and expanded edition, an international selection of leading coaching psychologists and coaches outlines recent developments from a broad spectrum of areas. Part One examines perspectives and research in coaching psychology, looking at both the past and the present as well as assessing future directions. Part Two presents a range of approaches to coaching psychology, including behavioural and cognitive behavioural, humanistic, existential, being-focused, constructive and systemic approaches. Part Three covers application, context and sustainability, focusing on themes including individual transitions in life and work, and complexity and system-level interventions. Finally, Part Four explores a range of topics within the professional and ethical practice of coaching psychology. The book also includes several appendices outlining the key professional bodies, publications, research centres and societies in coaching psychology, making this an indispensable resource.

Unique in its scope, this key text will be essential reading for coaching psychologists and coaches, academics and students of coaching psychology, coaching and mentoring and business psychology. It will be an important text for anyone seeking to understand the psychology underpinning their coaching practice, including human resource, learning and development and management professionals, and executives in a coaching role.

Contents:

Contents

List of illustrations

Notes on the editors and contributors

Foreword by Cary L. Cooper

Preface and acknowledgements

International Society for Coaching Psychology

PART 1: Perspectives and research in coaching psychology

Introduction

Past, present and future
Alison Whybrow and Stephen Palmer

Coaching and neuroscience
Patricia Riddell

Self-efficacy within coaching and coaching psychology: an integrated Self-efficacy Coaching Model
Diana Aguiar Vieira and Stephen Palmer

Goals and Coaching: an integrated evidence-based model of goal-focused coaching and coaching psychology
Anthony Grant

From positive psychology to the development of positive psychology coaching
Sheila Panchal, Stephen Palmer and Suzy Green

Research and the practitioner: getting a perspective on evidence as a coaching psychologist
Annette Fillery-Travis and Sarah Corrie

Understanding evidence-based coaching through the analysis of coaching psychology research methodology
Yi-Ling Lai and Stephen Palmer

PART 2: Coaching psychology approaches

Introduction

Section 1: Behavioural and cognitive behavioural approaches

Behavioural coaching
Jonathan Passmore

Cognitive behavioural coaching: An integrative approach
Stephen Palmer and Kasia Szymanskia

Section 2: Humanistic approaches

Person-centred coaching psychology
Stephen Joseph and Richard Bryant-Jefferies

Motivational interviewing: a specific approach for coaching psychologists
Jonathan Passmore and Alison Whybrow

Pluralistic coaching
Zsofia Anna Utry, Stephen Palmer, John McLeod and Mick Cooper

Section 3: Existential approaches

An existential approach to coaching psychology
Ernesto Spinelli and Caroline Horner

Gestalt coaching
Julie Allan and Alison Whybrow

Mindfulness in coaching: a self-determination theory perspective
Gordon B. Spence

Compassion focused coaching
Chis Irons, Stephen Palmer and Liz Hall

Section 4: Being focused approaches

Ontological coaching
Aboodi Shabi and Alison Whybrow

Somatic coaching
Eunice Aquilina & Richard Strozzi-Heckler

Section 5: Constructive approaches

Coaching with personal construct psychology
Kieran Duignan

Narrative coaching for all (adults, children, groups and communities)
Ho Law

Solution-focused coaching
Bill O'Connell and Stephen Palmer

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and coaching
Bruce Grimley

Section 6: Systemic approaches

Transactional Analysis approaches to coaching
Sandra Wilson

Systemic constellations approach to coaching and coaching psychology practice
Jake Farr and Matt Shepheard

Psychodynamic and systems-psychodynamics coaching
Vega Zagier Roberts and Halina Brunning

PART 3: Application, context and sustainability

Section 1: Individual transitions in life and work

Personal and Life-coaching psychology
Ole Michael Spatan

Developmental coaching across life transitions
Sheila Panchal, Siobhain O'Riordan and Stephen Palmer

Adult learning approaches as an approach to coaching
David Lane, Marc Kahn and Lloyd Chapman

Career coaching
Peter Fennah

Stress, resilience, health and wellbeing coaching
Helen Williams, Stephen Palmer and Kristina Gyllensten

Section 2: Coaching, complexity and system level interventions

Coaching at the edge of chaos: a complexity informed approach to coaching psychology
Lesley Kuhn and Alison Whybrow

Developing coaching within organisations: moving towards a coaching culture
Alison Whybrow and Ed Nottingham

Leadership and executive coaching
Vicky Ellam-Dyson, Dasha Grajfoner, Alison Whybrow and Stephen Palmer

Team coaching
Sandy Gordon and Doug MacKie

PART 4: The profession and ethical practice of coaching psychology

Introduction

The coaching relationship: a key role in coaching processes and outcomes
Alanna O'Broin and Stephen Palmer

Revisiting the issues of boundaries between coaching and counselling
Tatiana Bachkirova and Sarah Baker

Coaching and diversity
Helen Baron and Hannah Azizollah

Using psychometrics in coaching
Alan Bourne and Alison Whybrow

The role of technology in coaching
Alex Pascal; Brodie Riordan and Maggie Sass

Coachee mental health: practice implications for coaching psychologists
Kasia Szymanska

A cognitive-developmental approach for coach development
Tatiana Bachkirova and Elaine Cox

Coaching psychology supervision
Michael Carroll

Global activity in the education and practice of coaching psychology

Siobhain O'Riordan and Stephen Palmer

Afterword

Appendix 1: Coaching and coaching psychology professional bodies

Appendix 2: Coaching- and coaching psychology-related publications

Appendix 3: University-based coaching psychology units and centres

Appendix 4: International Society for Coaching Psychology (ISCP)

Index