This book offers detailed strategies, methodologies, approaches,
practice guidelines, and policy implications effective for professional
coaching on the individual, group and organizational level. It details
empirical research-based and theoretical perspectives on coaching
psychology as well as elaborates upon the fundamentals within
multi-cultural contexts. First delivering a general introduction to
coaching psychology before going on to examine specific psychological
approaches towards coaching. The book also provides a conceptual
framework for the use of psychometrics in multi-cultural coaching
psychology. Next, the book presents meta-theoretical perspectives and
applications for multi-cultural contexts, such as how to enhance
leadership with group coaching from a system psychodynamic approach, how
coaching can be used to support behavioral engagement and wellbeing,
and how to utilize symbolic expressions, art, myths, dreams, and
fantasies in coaching. This book provides practical tools towards
critical self-reflective practice. Delivering the current state of the
art research by presenting psychological coaching strategies theory and
practice in one viewpoint. It also informs on the activity of various
research approaches, thus interesting the broader student and academic
reader. It will help all readers evaluate their current coaching
competencies and, in the end, become better coaches. The book will also
serve as an ideal resource for psychologists who want to migrate into
coaching psychology.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing Switzerland, [2016]
ISBN: 9783319310121
