Handbook of Coaching Psychology A Guide for Practitioners

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 andcoaches, 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 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 Zsófia 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 Farrand Matt Shepheard Psychodynamic and systems-psychodynamics coaching Vega Zagier Robertsand 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 Teamcoaching Sandy Gordon andDoug 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

Stephen Palmer is a leading coaching psychologist and is president of the International Society for Coaching Psychology. He is professor of practice at the Wales Institute for Work Based Learning and was the first chair of the British Psychology Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology. Dr Alison Whybrow has been involved in the development of the coaching psychology profession since the early 2000s. A past chair of the British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology, Alison is now an honorary research fellow at the ISCP International Centre for Coaching Psychology Research. She runs her own coaching and consulting business.