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Semantics or substance? Preliminary evidence in the debate between life coaching and counselling.

K Griffiths, M Campbell Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2008

The similarities and differences between life coaching and counselling are vigorously debated in the literature and amongst practitioners. However, to date there has been insufficient empirical evidence with extensive focus on the distinctions and significantly less acknowledgement of the similarities. This paper presents findings from in...

What is personality change coaching and why is it important? A response to Martin, Oades & Caputi

H McCredie International Coaching Psychology Review 2013

This short paper is a response to Martin et al.’s (2012) assertion that Big Five factor scores are open to the influence of coaching interventions. It is based on an inspection of two key sources cited by the original authors. The first of these reports on the impact of life experiences on the long-term plasticity of Big 5 personality ...

What is personality change coaching and why is it important? A response to Martin, Oades & Caputi

LS Martin, L Oades, P Caputi International Coaching Psychology Review 2013

What is life coaching? An integrative review of the evidence-based literature

J Jarosz International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2016

Life coaching as an industry fully emerged in the 1990s and has exploded to become a $2 billion global industry with nearly 50,000 certified life coaches (ICF, 2012). With the rapid growth and many different programmes and educational platforms, there is a need for defining the exact scope of what life coaching entails (Segers, Vloeberghs...