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Coaching versus therapy: A perspective.

J Blattner, V Hart, S Leipsic Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2001

This article reports a study of current perceptions among professionals regarding therapy and coaching. Whereas therapy and counseling have been traditional fields of study and practice, coaching is not as well developed. It is helpful to examine the perceptions of practicing professionals in order to delineate the distinctions and overla...

Therapist as life coach: Transforming your practice

P Williams, D Davis WW Norton & Company 2002

Keeping up with the cheese! Research as a foundation for professional coaching of the future

A Grant Proceedings of the first ICF coaching research symposium 2003

Psychology's unique contribution to solution-focused coaching: Exploring clients' past to inform their present and design their future

T Kemp Australian Academic Press 2005

Coaching Skills: A Handbook

J Rogers Open University Press 2008

Coaching from the humanistic perspective

D Stober Wiley & Sons 2006

A bridge over troubled water: bringing together coaching and counselling

T Bachkirova, E Cox The International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching 2004

This article addresses the issue of forced estrangement between coaching and counselling. The separation between the two fields is explored and the consequences of this for coaching in particular as a newly established profession are discussed. It will be suggested that the source of differences and similarities between various types of ‘...

The Evolution of Coaching; patterns, icons and freedom

S Walker International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2004

Recent explosions in the range of ‘people-development’ disciplines are necessitating a post hoc task of classification. Whilst inductive and historical methods can be used to trace the distinctions between coaching, counselling, mentoring, therapy etc, they misrepresent crucial aspects of each. Here a conceptual model, ‘personal ecolog...

The mental health boundary in relationship to coaching and other activities

A Buckley International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2007

This article explores the relationship between coaching and mental health issues. Coaching functions in a world that is dominated by the medical model of mental health, where problems are viewed as illnesses to be diagnosed and treated. The coaching industry also functions alongside many other helping by talking activities, such as cou...

Personal Consultancy: An integrative approach to one-to-one talking practices

N Popovic, I Boniwell International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2007

Despite a proliferation of ‘one-to-one’ taking practices that include counselling, psychotherapy and coaching, the existing approaches do not seem to by fully adequate, starting from their very names to, more importantly, the help that they can offer to clients. Broadly speaking, counselling and psychotherapy are mostly remedial, and u...

The coaching at work toolkit: A complete guide to techniques and practices

P Zeus, S Skiffington McGraw-Hill 2002

At the Border: Coaching a Client with Dissociative Identity Disorder.

F Campone International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching & Mento... 2014

Coaching/psychotherapy boundaries have been explored theoretically and through surveys. The confidential nature of coaching has precluded direct observation of how they are operationalized. The case presented here was initiated at the invitation of a client who has a clinical diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder and her coach. T...

Choosing an executive coach: The influence of gender on the coach-coachee matching process.

D Gray, H Goregaokar Management Learning 2015

Coaching has enjoyed substantial commercial growth, but empirical support for its effectiveness is limited. Nowhere is this more so than in the matching process between coach and coachee. This study describes the results from a coaching programme in which coachees were asked to reflect on and justify their choice of coach. Initial, qualit...

Coaching: An emerging profession – or just a spanner in the HRD toolbox

D Gray, MNK Saunders, C Farrant The 16th International Conference on Human Resource Developm... 2015

Purpose: To identify the extent to which coaching is a distinct occupation, or task, performed within a portfolio of HR or other roles. To also ascertain the extent to which coaches identify with coaching as a profession and to explore how their professional identity (or multiple identities) are created and maintained. Design/methodology...

“It can be Life-Changing”; an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Coach and Coachee’s Experience of Psychometrics in Coaching

T Buckle International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2012

This research explores the coach and coachee’s experience of psychometrics in coaching with specific reference to the conversation and the relationship. Three coaches and three coachees were recruited and IPA informed the data collection and analysis. The results indicate that psychometrics affect the speed at which issues are accessed...

What is personality change coaching and why is it important?

LS Martin, LG Oades, P Caputi International Coaching Psychology Review 2012

Purpose: This article explores the concept of coaching for personality change. The aim is to evaluate the feasibility and desirability of personality change, clarify how this fits with coaching, identify a suitable personality model and measure, and propose directions for future research. Method: The above aim is achieved through refer...

Exploring the evolution of coaching through the lens of innovation

M Abravanel, J Gavin International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2017

In this paper, we examine coaching’s innovativeness through a comparison of its approaches and methods with those of more established helping professions. Using extant literature, we consider the nature of innovation before going on to examine coaching’s core beliefs and values, theoretical paradigms, and its goals, techniques, and method...