{"product_id":"evidence-based-coaching-handbook-dianne-r-stober-9780471720867","title":"Evidence Based Coaching Handbook: Putting Best Practices to Work for Your Clients","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dianne R. Stober\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0471720860\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780471720867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wiley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.44w x 1.24d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2007 pg. 11","brand":"Dianne R. Stober","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43919889793279,"sku":"9780471720867","price":59.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_911a9d04-d1a8-48a8-b204-2b0c3b352f1f.jpg?v=1680812468","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/evidence-based-coaching-handbook-dianne-r-stober-9780471720867","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}