Full Description
Grounded in primary and evidence-based research, this book is the first to investigate and provide guidance on navigating contemporary challenges that coaches, supervisors, educators, and organisations experience in achieving ethical best practice and legal responsibility.
This book addresses the complexities and difficulties of ensuring ethical best practice and duty of care in coaching, acting as an essential handbook for all those associated with and working in the field. Each chapter provides practical and crucial tips and insights and informs the reader on how to build ethical best practices in coaching, covering topics such as contracts and terms of engagement, setting ethical boundaries and limits, developing ethical maturity as a coach, and exploring contemporary systemic challenges in coaching.
Coaches from all disciplines in coaching, educators, supervisors, organisations using coaching, academics, and researchers will find this book an invaluable resource.
Contents
Introduction 1. Duty of Care in Coaching and Shifting Sands of Change 2. Building Understanding of Duty of Care in Coaching 3. Boundaries and Standards in Coaching 4. Contracting as a Coach 5. Care and Coaching; Developing Ethical Maturity 6. Endings in Coaching 7. Adopting a Systemic Lens to Duty of Care in Coaching 8. Coaching Supervision; Navigating the Rifts and Tensions 9. Bringing it Together: Putting Good Practice in to Practice 10. Research Overview
