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Executive coaching enhances goal attainment, resilience and workplace well-being: A randomised controlled study

AM Grant, L Curtayne, G Burton The Journal of Positive Psychology 2009

In a randomised controlled study, 41 executives in a public health agency received 360-degree feedback, a half-day leadership workshop, and four individual coaching sessions over 10 weeks. The coaching used a cognitive-behavioural solution-focused approach. Quantitative and qualitative measures were taken. This is the first published rand...

Cognitive-behavioral, solution-focused life coaching: Enhancing goal striving, well-being, and hope

L Green, L Oades, A Grant The Journal of Positive Psychology 2006

Research is in its infancy in the newly emerging field of coaching psychology. This study examined the effects of a 10-week cognitive-behavioral, solution-focused life coaching group programme. Participants were randomly allocated to a life coaching group programme (n  = 28) or a waitlist control group (n  = 28). Participation in the life...

Definition of Coaching Psychology

I APS 2015

Mindful Walking: Walk Your Way to Mental and Physical Well-Being

H O'Donovan Hachette Books Ireland 2015

Coaching psychology: An introduction.

S Palmer, A Whybrow Routledge Publications 2008

In this introductory chapter the authors consider what is coaching and coaching psychology, the origins of coaching psychology and the specific study of the psychology of coaching, and the gradual professionalisation of coaching psychology with the move towards coaching psychology becoming an applied area of psychology. Then the authors i...

Green exercise in the UK countryside: Effects on health and psychological well-being, and implications for policy and planning

J Pretty, J Peacock, R Hine, M Sellens, N South, M Griffin Journal of environmental planning and management 2007

There is evidence that contact with the natural environment and green space promotes good health. It is also well known that participation in regular physical activity generates physical and psychological health benefits. The authors have hypothesised that ‘green exercise’ will improve health and psychological well-being, yet few studies ...

The mental and physical health outcomes of green exercise

J Pretty, J Peacock, M Sellens, M Griffin International journal of environmental health research 2005

Both physical activity and exposure to nature are known separately to have positive effects on physical and mental health. We have investigated whether there is a synergistic benefit in adopting physical activities whilst being directly exposed to nature (‘green exercise’). Five groups of 20 subjects were exposed to a sequence of 30 scene...

Can positive and coaching psychologists become more involved in social prescribing? The prescription for enhanced wellbeing

S Palmer Coaching Psychology International 2018

This short paper will describe social prescribing, highlight some of the research outcomes and then consider how positive and coaching psychologists could possibly become more involved in social prescribing and social prescriptions as a part of their practice.