ABSTRACT

Counseling and Coaching in Times of Crisis and Transition explores how threats and challenges caused by rapid social and technological changes require counselors and coaches to rethink their usual ways of working, and, in some cases, even abandon their traditional theoretical anchors. The authors of this forward-thinking book argue that practitioners who aim to help others strengthen their resources can no longer afford to wait for clients in their offices or offer them protected, objective and neutral professional relationships.

Contributors from around the world argue that there is a real need for new counseling and coaching actions to be delivered in different contexts: counselors and coaches should be able to use heterogeneous languages and interventions, as well as numerous relationship modalities and activities in order to streamline the support that they offer to people in sectors as diverse as health and well-being, life and career design, prevention and community inclusion, work inclusion, and schools. The book provides an evidence-based framework, with numerous counseling and coaching examples that are capable of promoting people’s strengths, whether this be face-to-face, in groups, or online.

This book will appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of counseling and coaching, as well as those with an interest in psychological, social and educational science. It should also be essential reading for practitioners and policymakers in a diverse range of contexts, including those working on intervention and support for vulnerable people, non-traditional and disadvantaged students, and people with disabilities.

part I|65 pages

Approaches, methodologies and techniques for counseling and coaching

chapter 1|13 pages

Counseling and reflexive processes

Role of multimodal narrative devices in promoting reflection and reflexivity in a university context

chapter 2|16 pages

New issues in cognitive counseling

Counseling skills in health care

chapter 3|17 pages

The increasingly prominent role of visualization in counseling

Examples and implications for school counseling

part II|82 pages

Career counseling and counseling for professional life

chapter 5|20 pages

Career counseling and career coaching in working contexts

Learning from each other

chapter 6|10 pages

Promoting adaptive career behavior

A Social Cognitive Career Theory perspective

chapter 7|12 pages

Life design and career counseling

Self-determination and autonomous motivation

chapter 8|14 pages

Narrative career counseling

Theoretical and application proposals within the narrative vocational identity

part III|86 pages

Counseling and coaching actions for wellbeing and inclusion

chapter 11|13 pages

Prevention psychology

Interventions to promote health and wellbeing

chapter 15|12 pages

The disclosure dilemma

Disability, identity and self-determination

chapter 16|11 pages

Promoting courage in children

The role of coaching

chapter |6 pages

Conclusion

Ideas for the future of counseling and coaching