What is Coaching Psychology?

Question 1

What is coaching psychology?

Answer 1

Coaching psychology is a branch of psychology focused on the systematic application of behavioral science to enhance life experience, work performance, and wellbeing for individuals, groups, and organizations.

Question 2

What does coaching psychology aim to facilitate?

Answer 2

Coaching psychology aims to facilitate goal attainment and enhance personal and professional growth and development of clients.

Question 3

Is coaching psychology aimed at treating mental illness?

Answer 3

No, coaching psychology is not aimed at directly treating clinically significant mental illness issues or abnormal levels of distress.

Question 4

What is the approach of psychology and coaching psychology?

Answer 4

Both psychology and coaching psychology seek to be evidence-based.

Question 5

What is Grant’s definition of coaching psychology?

Answer 5

“Coaching psychology is a branch of psychology that is concerned with the systematic application of the behavioural science of psychology to the enhancement of life experience, work performance and wellbeing for individuals, groups and organisations.

Coaching psychology focuses on facilitating goal attainment, and on enhancing the personal and professional growth and development of clients in personal life and in work domains. It is not aimed at directly treating clinically significant mental illness issues or abnormal levels of distress”.

Grant, A. M. (2011). Developing an Agenda for Teaching Coaching Psychology. International Coaching Psychology Review, 6(1), 84-99.