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Personal and Executive Coaching: The Complete Guide for Mental Health Professionals

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To psychotherapists who are entering the coaching field: You must get this book. It is packed full of ethical issues you need to understand and will also get you started right away with necessary skills.

The subtitle of this treatise "The Complete Guide for Mental Health Professionals" is no misnomer. This book is complete. It takes you through the transition from your mental health background to the closely related field of coaching. It does this smoothly, through three well-written sections, ending in a crescendo to the very helpful Appendix.

The first section clearly lays out the differences between the fields (in approach and language), moves you through a very effective and comprehensive model of coaching (including a perfect New Client Questionnaire), to the ethical issues that you must know to make the transition a safe one. The ethics section and Dr. Auerbach's research with attorneys is worth twice the admission fee. For example, all sources researched agree that you need to keep your two businesses separate - no dual Web site advertising. You won't need to worry about losing your license after reading this section.

The second section covers techniques, processes, and the use of assessments, which will be familiar to most therapists; however, Dr. Auerbach does an excellent job of pointing out the subtle differences that are key to making you act and sound like a coach instead of a therapist.

The third section covers the major varieties of coaching, and can even help you assess which area you are best fit to work in or which you will be most passionate about.

The Appendix is very helpful, and includes samples of forms to use; including the above-mentioned New Client Questionnaire, a Coaching Agreement, and other helpful questions and questionnaires to help you get clients and to start those first few sessions.

I highly recommend this book to any mental health professional moving into this exciting field.

Executive Coaching is hot. A number of people from various professional backgrounds provide personal and business coaching for managers and leaders. Dr. Auerbach has written a wonderfully comprehensive manual for mental health professionals who bring a unique background to this exciting discipline.

In a clear, concise and thoughtful fashion, Dr. Auerbach clarifies the essential differences between coaching and psychotherapy. Underlying, his philosophy of coaching is a focus on the client's values. He delineates a model of coaching that provides an excellent guide for the coaching process.

Dr. Auerbach discusses the legal and ethical issues involved in coaching that is extremely helpful to both beginning and seasoned coaches. He thoroughly explains how coaching is conducted on the telephone-a process likely to be unfamiliar to many therapists.

The book is "jam-packed" with specific practical techniques, how to incorporate assessment instruments, and illuminating coaching examples. The resource section includes invaluable samples of letters of agreement to use with coaching clients and powerful coaching questions.

Therapists desiring to enter the exciting world of coaching and seasoned coaching professionals, will find Dr. Auerbach's wise counsel a roadmap for their success.

A lot has been written about "personal and executive coaching", but this book really offers something new. This book is a must for coaches, psychotherapists who are entering the coaching field, trainers and counselors!
Dr. Auerbach has written a great manual packed full of ethical issues, coaching tools, coaching model, powerful coaching questions, letters of agreement to use with your coachees, etc.
I recommend reading it more than once. With each reading you learn something new that will help you to not only understand your clients better, but also get some guidance for your own life!

The book is written for mental health professionals. However, I feel it is appropriate for anyone with a basic understanding of performance management and behavioral process improvement. I found the book to be full of valuable content and substance. It is well written and practical for the new coach or the industry veteran. I would strongly recommend this book to any person considering the field of coaching. I wish all coaches had the level of knowledge and professionalism outlined in this book. Find it, buy it, read it, and save it!

Great and insightful manual and guide for Personal and/or Executive Coaches; full of suggestions, examples and insights for helping a coach be better, more intuitive, helpful and useful to their clients. It is concise and easy to read and understand, with a summery at the end of each chapter which is helpful. I like the upbeat and optimistic tenor of the book, too. It has many examples of questions, etc. that can be used to gain understanding of a clients needs and how to guide them. I highly recommend it as a reference and guide. Every coach should have this handy. I use and refer to it often.

Ostensible written for "mental health professionals", this is a remarkable compilation of simple-minded advice, psychobabble, buzzwords, and gobbledegook. I couldn't finish it. PS, I AM a "mental health professional" and now also do coaching, even without the "help" of this item.

If you're a mental health professional, chances are you have adequate training in psychology to be an executive coach, but how about training and experience in OD and in business? these are necessry to be credible and effective in executive coaching. See a complete competency model on the website (...) NEW page.

The parcel was left on my doorstep, directly at the side of a busy road, by the delivery service. Someone took, opened and discarded it further up the road. My neighbour found it and kindly returned it to me. An example of a shoddy service and inexcusable.