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.

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

1. Past, present and future

Alison Whybrow and Stephen Palmer

2. Coaching and neuroscience

Patricia Riddell

3. Self-efficacy within coaching and coaching psychology: an integrated Self-efficacy Coaching Model

Diana Aguiar Vieira and Stephen Palmer

4. Goals and Coaching: an integrated evidence-based model of goal-focused coaching and coaching psychology

Anthony Grant

5. From positive psychology to the development of positive psychology coaching

Sheila Panchal, Stephen Palmer and Suzy Green

6. Research and the practitioner: getting a perspective on evidence as a coaching psychologist

Annette Fillery-Travis and Sarah Corrie

7. 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

8. Behavioural coaching

Jonathan Passmore

9. Cognitive behavioural coaching: An integrative approach

Stephen Palmer and Kasia Szymanskia

Section 2: Humanistic approaches

10. Person-centred coaching psychology

Stephen Joseph and Richard Bryant-Jefferies

11. Motivational interviewing: a specific approach for coaching psychologists

Jonathan Passmore and Alison Whybrow

12. Pluralistic coaching

Zsófia Anna Utry, Stephen Palmer, John McLeod and Mick Cooper

Section 3: Existential approaches

13. An existential approach to coaching psychology

Ernesto Spinelli and Caroline Horner

14. Gestalt coaching

Julie Allan and Alison Whybrow

15. Mindfulness in coaching: a self-determination theory perspective

Gordon B. Spence

16. Compassion focused coaching

Chis Irons, Stephen Palmer and Liz Hall

Section 4: Being focused approaches

17. Ontological coaching

Aboodi Shabi and Alison Whybrow

18. Somatic coaching

Eunice Aquilina & Richard Strozzi-Heckler

Section 5: Constructive approaches

19. Coaching with personal construct psychology

Kieran Duignan

20. Narrative coaching for all (adults, children, groups and communities)

Ho Law

21. Solution-focused coaching

Bill O'Connell and Stephen Palmer

22. Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and coaching

Bruce Grimley

Section 6: Systemic approaches

23. Transactional Analysis approaches to coaching

Sandra Wilson

24. Systemic constellations approach to coaching and coaching psychology practice

Jake Farr and Matt Shepheard

25. 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

26. Personal and Life-coaching psychology

Ole Michael Spatan

27. Developmental coaching across life transitions

Sheila Panchal, Siobhain O'Riordan and Stephen Palmer

28. Adult learning approaches as an approach to coaching

David Lane, Marc Kahn and Lloyd Chapman

29. Career coaching

Peter Fennah

30. Stress, resilience, health and wellbeing coaching

Helen Williams, Stephen Palmer and Kristina Gyllensten

Section 2: Coaching, complexity and system level interventions

31. Coaching at the edge of chaos: a complexity informed approach to coaching psychology

Lesley Kuhn and Alison Whybrow

32. Developing coaching within organisations: moving towards a coaching culture

Alison Whybrow and Ed Nottingham

33. Leadership and executive coaching

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

34. Team coaching

Sandy Gordon and Doug MacKie

PART 4: The profession and ethical practice of coaching psychology

Introduction

35. The coaching relationship: a key role in coaching processes and outcomes

Alanna O'Broin and Stephen Palmer

36. Revisiting the issues of boundaries between coaching and counselling

Tatiana Bachkirova and Sarah Baker

37. Coaching and diversity

Helen Baron and Hannah Azizollah

38. Using psychometrics in coaching

Alan Bourne and Alison Whybrow

39. The role of technology in coaching

Alex Pascal; Brodie Riordan and Maggie Sass

40. Coachee mental health: practice implications for coaching psychologists

Kasia Szymanska

41. A cognitive-developmental approach for coach development

Tatiana Bachkirova and Elaine Cox

42. Coaching psychology supervision

Michael Carroll

43. 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