Handbook of Coaching Psychology ― A Guide for Practitioners

The Handbook of Coaching Psychology: A Guide for Practitioners provides a clear and extensive guide to the theory, research and practice of coaching psychology.

In this new and expanded edition, reflecting the increased interest in this ever-expanding field, Stephen Palmer, Alison Whybrow and other leading coaching psychologists and coaches outline recent developments from a broad spectrum of areas, including perspectives and research in coaching psychology, coaching psychology approaches, applications and context and professional and ethical practice. Now with 43 chapters, this new edition contains:

• New chapters on coaching approaches
• A new section on coaching in a range of contexts with different client groups, and
• Updated existing chapters and references

While the literature has grown since publication of the first edition, the Handbook of Coaching Psychology has remained a key text in the coaching arena, and this new edition will continue to appeal to professional coaching psychologists and coaches both in practice and training, as well as mental health professionals.

Professor Stephen Palmer is a leading coaching psychologist and is President of the International Society for Coaching Psychology. He is Professor of Practice at the Wales Institute for Work Based Learning and was the first chair of the British Psychology Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology.

Dr Alison Whybrow has been involved in the development of the coaching psychology profession since the early 2000’s. A Past Chair of the British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology Alison is now an Honorary Research Fellow at the ISCP International Centre for Coaching Psychology Research. She runs her own coaching and consulting business.