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Values and Ethics in Coaching
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Values and Ethics in Coaching

First Edition


January 2017 | 224 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

The first complete guide to exploring values and ethics in coaching, this book will guide you through the responsibilities of coaching practice, and help you recognize and reconcile common ethical dilemmas and choices.

Part I explores the theory and research underpinning ethical coaching practice, and invites you to examine own personal and professional values.

Part II delves into the key ethical considerations in the coaching relationship, including contracting, confidentiality and understanding boundaries. It explores each issue in depth, and offers implications and suggestions for practice.

Part III examines individual professional contexts, including coaching in business, sports and healthcare with real life examples and reflections from practising coaches.

This book is vital reading for trainee and practitioner coaches, and those looking to introduce ethical coaching practice into a professional setting.


 
Introduction
 
Part I: The Nature of Values and Ethics
 
Chapter 1: What are Values and Ethics?
 
Chapter 2: Understanding Personal and Professional Values
 
Part II: Ethical Practice
 
Chapter 3: Developing the Coaching Relationship
 
Chapter 4: Maintaining an Ethical Coaching Practice
 
Chapter 5: Developing an Evidence-Based Coaching Practice
 
Chapter 6: Practising Reflexively
 
Chapter 7: Coaching across Professional Boundaries and Contexts
 
Part III: Ethical Issues in Coaching Contexts
 
Chapter 8: Ethical Issues in Business Coaching
 
Chapter 9: Ethical Issues in Coach Education and Training
 
Chapter 10: Ethical Issues in Sports Coaching
 
Chapter 11: Ethical Issues for Coaching in Healthcare
 
Conclusion: Towards a Shared Understanding of Ethical Standards

This is an important topic clearly presented with a number of specific contexts highlighted, which can provide a term of reference and reflection for other contexts where Coaching may be used.

Ms Marilia Angove
Glamorgan Business School, University of South Wales (Glamorgan)
May 22, 2020

An interesting journey into the ethics of coaching

Mr charlie whewell
Sport & the Public Services Department, Bedford College
September 12, 2017

The structure of this text provides a very accessible and clear overview of ethical considerations in context. Each chapter beings with clear aims, an overview, key words and questions. This structure presents opportunities for readers to reflect on their existing knowledge in order to position their learning for new information. There are also effective activities and suggestions for further reading to extend a student’s understanding of key values and ethics in coaching.

Ms Lorraine Loveland-Armour
Department of Education, Newman University
March 12, 2017
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Key features

Need 1: Without a regulatory body to provide clear and consistent guidance, trainees need an alternative source of advice and support on ethical coaching practice.

Feature: The book has a unique and specific focus on issues of values and ethics in all aspects of coaching – from the coach’s own values and ethics, through ethical coaching practice, to issues specific to different coaching contexts – helping trainees to build their own coaching practice on solid ethical grounds.

 

Need 2: Trainees new to coaching practice need to be able to make sound ethical judgements in this unfamiliar context. Ethical and moral dilemmas that arise from issues such as contracting, confidentiality, boundaries etc. can be difficult to conceptualise.

Feature: Each chapter starts with a values/ethics based scenario, ensuring subsequent discussion is clearly illustrated and contextualised. Ethical dilemma boxes also appear throughout, introducing trainees to the kind of dilemmas they might face and encouraging trainees to think about how they might resolve them.

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