{"product_id":"evidence-based-coaching-handbook-isbn-9780471720867","title":"Evidence Based Coaching Handbook","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first reference to bring scientifically proven approaches to the practice of personal and executive coaching\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Evidence Based Coaching Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecognizing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Evidence Based Coaching Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe coverage includes:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn overview: a contextual model of coaching approaches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSystems and complexity theory\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe behavioral perspective\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe humanistic perspective\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCognitive coaching\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAdult development theory\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn integrative, goal-focused approach\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePsychoanalytically informed coaching\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePositive psychology\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn adult learning approach\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn adventure-based framework\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCulture and coaching\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Preface.  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction (\u003ci\u003eAnthony M. Grant and Dianne R. Stober\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Single-Theory Perspectives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Coaching from the Humanistic Perspective (\u003ci\u003eDianne R. Stober\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: People Are Complex and the World Is Messy: A Behavior-Based Approach to Executive Coaching (\u003ci\u003eDavid B. Peterson\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Adult Development Theory and Executive Coaching Practice (\u003ci\u003eJennifer Garvey Berger\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Cognitive Coaching (\u003ci\u003eJeffrey E. Auerbach\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Psychoanalytically Informed Executive Coaching (\u003ci\u003eSeth Allcorn\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Integrative and Cross-Theory Approaches.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: An Integrative Goal-Focused Approach to Executive Coaching (\u003ci\u003eAnthony M. Grant\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: An Adult Learning Approach to Coaching (\u003ci\u003eElaine Cox\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Positive Psychology: The Science at the Heart of Coaching (\u003ci\u003eCarol Kauffman\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Coaching from a Cultural Perspective (\u003ci\u003ePhilippe Rosinski and Geoffrey N. Abbott\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10: An Adventure-Based Framework for Coaching (\u003ci\u003eTravis Kemp\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Coaching from a Systemic Perspective: A Complex Adaptive Conversation (\u003ci\u003eMichael Cavanagh\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Toward a Contextual Approach to Coaching Models (\u003ci\u003eDianne R. Stober and Anthony M. Grant\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Workplace and Executive Coaching: A Bibliography from the Scholarly Business Literature (\u003ci\u003eAnthony M. Grant\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthor Index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eDIANNE STOBER\u003c\/b\u003e, PHD, consults, teaches, and conducts research in the areas of coaching and adult learning. She is on the faculty of the Organizational Management\/Organizational Development Master's Program at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California. Trained as a clinical psychologist, she maintains an active coaching practice with individuals and organizations, while also consulting on designing and providing executive and managerial development programs. She can be reached at dstober@fielding.edu.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eANTHONY M. GRANT\u003c\/b\u003e, PHD, is the founder and Director of the world's first university-based Coaching Psychology Unit at the School of Psychology, in the University of Sydney, Australia. His PhD is in coaching psychology and he is a registered psychologist. He is both an academic and a practitioner and his coaching research and practice have been frequently featured in the national and international media.\u003c\/p\u003e  The first reference to bring scientifically proven approaches to the practice of personal and executive coaching\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003eThe 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. 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