Professional Coaching: Principles and Practice / Edition 1

by Susan English OSB, EdD, MCC, Janice Sabatine PhD, PCC, Philip Brownell MDiv, PsyD

Overview

Incorporating a wealth of knowledge from international experts, this is an authoritative guide to provide a comprehensive overview of professional coaching. Grounded in current research, it addresses the historical, ethical, theoretical, and practice foundations of professional coaching, and examines such key therapeutic approaches as acceptance and commitment, internal family systems, psychodynamic, and interpersonal. In easily accessible language, the book discusses core considerations for effective practice such as presence, meaning-making, mindfulness, emotions, self-determination, and culture.

The reference examines the variety of practice settings for the profession, including executive, life/personal, health/wellness, spiritual, team, education, and career coaching, along with critical issues such as research advances, credentialing, and training. Further contributing to coaching savvy, the book has techniques for measuring client progress, applications of adult development, intentional change theory, and more. Chapters include recommendations for further reading.

Key Features:

• Provides a comprehensive overview of a fast-growing field
• Includes contributions from international experts
• Covers historical, professional, philosophical, and theoretical foundations as well as important applications and practice settings
• Includes suggestions for further reading
• Expands the range of practice settings
• Includes free ebook with purchase of print

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826180087
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	12/13/2018
Pages:	481
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Philip Brownell, MDiv, PsyD, is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in North Carolina and Oregon and a Registered Psychologist in Bermuda. He is an ordained clergyman and writes a weekly column on integrative issues for The Royal Gazette, Bermuda's largest daily newspaper. He is currently a staff psychologist at Benedict Associates, Ltd., where he offers a broad range of assessment and counseling services to child, adolescent, and adult populations, including individual, couple, family, and group therapy.

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: The Profession of Coaching

Chapter 1 Perspectives on the Definition of Coaching

Chapter 2 The Roots and Evolution of Coaching

Chapter 3 The Business of Coaching Today

Chapter 4 Coach Training: Context, Competencies, Methodology, and Practice

Chapter 5 Professional Standards: A Developmental Journey

Chapter 6 Coaching Research: A Critical Review

Part 2: Core Considerations in Coaching

Chapter 7 Ethics and the Professional Coach: Challenges and Best Practices

Chapter 8 Managing “Invisible” Cultural Issues to Create Partnerships that Work

Chapter 9 Honing the Ultimate Coaching Advantage: The Coach/Client Relationship

Chapter 10 Interpersonal Approaches to Coaching

Chapter 11 Presence as Coaching Meta-Competency

Chapter 12 The Coach as Awareness Agent: A Process Approach

Chapter 13 Mindful Compassionate Coaching: An Approach Perfect for VUCA Times

Chapter 14 Successful Coaches Influence Emotions, Thoughts, and Behaviors

Chapter 15 Hermeneutic Coaching

Chapter 16 The Coach’s Imperative: Expanding Perspectives

Chapter 17 Evaluating Client Progress: A Developmental Approach—Beyond Convention

Part 3: Theories and Frameworks in Coaching

Chapter 18 Coaching and Seeing Systems

Chapter 19 Coaching with Intentional Change Theory

Chapter 20 Supporting Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness: The Coaching Process from a Self-Determination Theory Perspective

Chapter 21 Maturity Coaching: Enabling Vertical Development in Leaders

Chapter 22 The Immunity-to-Change Process: When Change is Hard to Make

Chapter 23 Internal Family Systems (IFS) Applications in Coaching

Chapter 24 Coaching for an Increasingly Complex World

Chapter 25 ACT-Based Coaching

Chapter 26 Executive Coaching: A Psychodynamic Approach

Chapter 27 Integral Coaching: Whole Person Development in a Complex World

Part 4: Applications of Coaching

Chapter 28 Leadership Coaching as a Growth Cycle—From Transition to Transition

Chapter 29 Life Coaching: The Heart and Soul of Professional Coaching

Chapter 30 Advancing the Practice of Professional Health and Wellness Coaching

Chapter 31 What Team Coaching Is and Is Not

Chapter 32 Coaching and Spirituality: A Mutually Resourceful Relationship

Chapter 33 Coaching in Education

Chapter 34 Executive Coaching

Chapter 35 Career Coaching: The ADAPT Framework