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The Evidence Based Coaching Handbook applies recent behavioral science research to executive and personal coaching, bringing multiple disciplines to bear on why and how coaching works. A groundbreaking resource for this burgeoning profession, this text presents several different coaching approaches along with the empirical and theoretical knowledge base supporting each.
Recognizing the special character of coaching–that the coaching process is non–medical, collaborative, and highly contextual–the authors lay out an evidence–based coaching model that allows practitioners to integrate their own expertise and the needs of their individual clients with the best current knowledge. This gives coaches the ability to better understand and optimize their own coaching interventions, while not having to conform to a single, rigidly defined practice standard.
The Evidence Based Coaching Handbook looks at various approaches and applies each to the same two case studies, demonstrating through this practical comparison the methods, assumptions, and concepts at work in the different approaches.
The coverage includes:
- An overview: a contextual model of coaching approaches
- Systems and complexity theory
- The behavioral perspective
- The humanistic perspective
- Cognitive coaching
- Adult development theory
- An integrative, goal–focused approach
- Psychoanalytically informed coaching
- Positive psychology
- An adult learning approach
- An adventure–based framework
- Culture and coaching
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The Evidence Based Coaching Handbook applies recent behavioral science research to executive and personal coaching, bringing multiple disciplines to bear on why and how coaching works. A groundbreaking resource for this burgeoning profession, this text presents several different coaching approaches along with the empirical and theoretical knowledge base supporting each.
Recognizing the special character of coaching—that the coaching process is non–medical, collaborative, and highly contextual—the authors lay out an evidence–based coaching model that allows practitioners to integrate their own expertise and the needs of their individual clients with the best current knowledge. This gives coaches the ability to better understand and optimize their own coaching interventions, while not having to conform to a single, rigidly defined practice standard.
The Evidence Based Coaching Handbook looks at various approaches and applies each to the same two case studies, demonstrating through this practical comparison the methods, assumptions, and concepts at work in the different approaches. The coverage includes:
- An overview: a contextual model of coaching approaches
- Systems and complexity theory
- The behavioral perspective
- The humanistic perspective
- Cognitive coaching
- Adult development theory
- An integrative, goal–focused approach
- Psychoanalytically informed coaching
- Positive psychology
- An adult learning approach
- An adventure–based framework
- Culture and coaching
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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Advancing theory and practice,
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This review is from: The Evidence Based Coaching Handbook: Putting Best Practices to Work for Your Clients (Hardcover)
The scientist-practitioner model has a long history within psychology. According to this model, a psychologist is a scientist and a competent researcher, and also a practitioner who applies knowledge and techniques to work with clients. Scientific findings are drawn upon to inform practice and practice is reviewed to identify key principles.
This has not universally been the case within coaching as a practice or discipline. Whilst coaching practice has evolved it has not all been captured in theories and models, and many practitioners draw only narrowly upon coaching research. Writers like Stober and Grant have independently questioned this situation for some time. Now, together, in The Handbook for Evidence-Based Coaching, they have, as editors brought together writers to summarise current coaching research in a way that is readily accessible by coaching practitioners. Their objective is clear: "Putting best practices to work for your clients", as the strapline states. The book presents a cross section of single theory perspectives (e.g. humanistic, cognitive etc) and more integrative approaches (e.g. adult learning, positive psychology etc. It constitutes an excellent handbook. as always people might argue that it does not include some perspectives (e.g. NLP, though this may reflect the weaker level of integration and testability of this approach)or transpersonal coaching, but it is hard to find a better set of well written 'bitesize' accounts that can be considered and applied by coaching practitioners. Professor John Sparrow Professor of Occupational Psychology Birmingham City University, UK
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5.0 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews) 30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
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A Great Resource in the Field of Coaching,
By Business Reader - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Evidence Based Coaching Handbook: Putting Best Practices to Work for Your Clients (Hardcover)
Dianne Stober has been an active player in improving the field of executive coaching so I was delighted to see this publication. The handbook is comprehensive in coverage and well-organized. I am glad to see a book that has a strong theoretical base that also offers some easy to understand models and frameworks of coaching. While I enjoyed the entire book, I particularly liked the authors' chapter on a contextual approach to coaching as well as the chapter on positive psychology. I would highly recommend this book.
35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
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By Larry M. Starr PhD - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Evidence Based Coaching Handbook: Putting Best Practices to Work for Your Clients (Hardcover)
Notwithstanding the marketeering/hype that the book presents "scientifically proven" information, this "evidence-based" approach is on-target. In one source text the academic community now has a clearly presented body of knowledge from which we can trace how theory and practice can be linked. We also have a first opportunity to offer graduate programs or other disciplines where coaching is taught a volume that will allow an appreciation the breadth of coaching approaches available and the opportunties for engaging in further study as students, teachers, researchers, practitioners or combinations thereof. Within a few hours of reading this book (from cover to cover) I ordered 6 additional copies for our coaching faculty in the Organizational Dynamics Masters Degree program at the University of Pennsylvania.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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A scientific approach that strengthens coaching practice,
By Marcos C. Heinzkill "insight reviews" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Evidence Based Coaching Handbook: Putting Best Practices to Work for Your Clients (Hardcover)
This is a reference book that presents several different coaching approaches along with knowledge base supporting evidence that would help executive coaches reinforce their practice. I have found particularly refreshing, the inclusive approach of its authors to the many different schools of coaching present today. This overview of different systems,methods,concepts and philosophical backgrounds have enriched my understanding of the many different approaches available to the coaching conversation and has helped me optimize my ability to improve the way I conduct conversation learning processes.
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