TY  - JOUR
TI  - Coaching psychology and neuroscience: Cross- disciplinary opportunities and challenges
AU  - O'Broin, A.
AB  - This paper contextualises the aim of developing a dialogue between coaching psychology and neuroscience that is underpinned by experimental research, within the coaching psychology tradition of drawing upon allied domains for its evidence-informed practice. Whilst a 'brain-based' approach to coaching is inherently appealing, of increasing interest to coaches, and adapted neuroimaging and electroencephalographic (EEG) studies may provide a promising starting point for increasing our understanding of how coaching works, a number of technical, interdisciplinary, biological, and pragmatic challenges to the stated aim currently exist. It is proposed that overstating the current ability of neuroscience to explain the associations with and mechanisms underlying coachee and coach social behaviour and cognition could be counter-productive in  seeking to establish an empirical neuro-scientific evidence base for coaching.
IS  - 1
JO  - The Coaching Psychologist
PY  - 2015
KW  - Coaching
KW  - coaching psychology
KW  - neuroscience
SP  - 30
EP  - 31
UR  - shop.bps.org.uk/publications/publication-by-series/the-coaching-psychologist/the-coaching-psychologist-vol-11-no-1-june-2015.html
VL  - 11
LA  - English
ER  -