Professional Coaching
Principles and Practice
Susan English, OSB, EdD, MCC
Janice Sabatine, PhD, PCC
Philip Brownell, MDiv, PsyD
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
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
- Release Date: December 13, 2018
- Paperback / softback
- 481 Pages
- Trim Size: 7in x 10in
- Number of Illustrations: 40
- ISBN: 9780826180087
- eBook ISBN: 9780826180094
