Coaching Researched - (BPS Textbooks in Psychology) by Jonathan Passmore & David Tee (Paperback)

About the Book

"This book will be a collection of papers from the BPS publication: International Coaching Psychology Review. The new work would bring together the best papers from the last 15 years of the peer review publication, with the aim of more widely showcasing this research, making more accessible to the growing number of coaching researchers in business, health and education, and practitioners where there is a growing interest in evidenced based practice. The last five years have seen a growth in the number of University courses in the UK, and wider English speaking world; Australia, South Africa, and US, as well as in Europe and beyond. We now estimate some fifty plus universities are offering coaching programmes at post-graduate level, with several hundred under-graduate and post-graduate coaching modules leading to a significant growth in coaching related research activity within universities. A second audience we see for the title are practitioners interested in evidenced based practice. In the early development of coaching the focus was on models, specifically those claiming high impact of magical transformations. The growing rofessionalism of coaching, and the focus of coaching professional bodes such as the International Coach Federation (ICF), Association for Coaching (AC) and European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) on evidenced based practice, as seen a growth interest in the science of coaching. ICPR's growth has been limited as access to the journal is constrained by the BPS. A paper copy of the journal is published, but due to BPS's approach to its in-house journals' the use of discoverability on the journals is severely constrained. As a result many of the papers are not in wider circulation, among coaching students and coaching academics"--

Book Synopsis

A comprehensive review of the practice and most recent research on coaching

Coaching Researched: Using Coaching Psychology to Inform Your Research and Practice brings together in one authoritative volume a collection to the most noteworthy papers from the past 15 years from the journal International Coaching Psychology Review. Firmly grounded in evidence-based practice, the writings are appropriate for the burgeoning number of coaching researchers and practitioners in business, health, and education.

The contributors offer a scientific framework to support coaching's pedagogy and they cover the sub-specialties of the practice including executive, health, and life coaching. The book provides a comparative analysis in order to differentiate coaching from other practices. Comprehensive in scope, the book covers a wide-range of topics including: the nature of coaching, coaching theory, insights from recent research, a review of various coaching methods, and thoughts on the future of coaching. This important book:

• Offers a collection of the most relevant research in the last 15 years with commentary from the International Coaching Psychology Review journal's chief editor
• Contains information on both the theory and practice of the profession
• Includes content on topics such as clients and coaching, an integrated model of coaching, evidence-based life coaching, and much more
>Presents insights on the future of coaching research

Written for students, researchers, practitioners of coaching in all areas of practice, Coaching Researched offers an accessible volume to the most current evidenced-based practice and research.

From the Back Cover

A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE PRACTICE AND MOST RECENT RESEARCH ON COACHING

Coaching Researched: Using Coaching Psychology to Inform Your Research and Practice brings together in one authoritative volume a collection to the most noteworthy papers from the past 15 years from the journal International Coaching Psychology Review. Firmly grounded in evidence-based practice, the writings are appropriate for the burgeoning number of coaching researchers and practitioners in business, health, and education.

The contributors offer a scientific framework to support coaching's pedagogy and they cover the sub-specialties of the practice including executive, health, and life coaching. The book provides a comparative analysis in order to differentiate coaching from other practices. Comprehensive in scope, the book covers a wide-range of topics including: the nature of coaching, coaching theory, insights from recent research, a review of various coaching methods, and thoughts on the future of coaching. This important book:

• Offers a collection of the most relevant research in the last 15 years with commentary from the International Coaching Psychology Review journal's chief editor
• Contains information on both the theory and practice of the profession
• Includes content on topics such as clients and coaching, an integrated model of coaching, evidence-based life coaching, and much more
• Presents insights on the future of coaching research

Written for students, researchers, practitioners of coaching in all areas of practice, Coaching Researched offers an accessible volume to the most current evidenced-based practice and research.

About the Author

JONATHAN PASSMORE is the director of Henley Centre of Coaching, Henley Business School and is professor of coaching and behavioural change.

DAVID TEE is programme director of coaching at the University of South Wales and the editor of The Coaching Psychologist.