The second edition is an impressively comprehensive book, with so many leading experts and writers in coaching . The book is a consistently organised, accessible and practical handbook for coaches. Particularly helpful in the Introduction is the Table showing how each theory or approach is linked to the genres and contexts in which that style of coaching is used. The new edition is updated and covers coaching even more extensively than the first edition. -- Dr Hilary Geber When the first edition of the Complete Handbook of Coaching appeared, it became my first point of reference for everything to do with coaching. The second edition lives up to the standards of the first, bring existing chapters up to date and adding new chapters on health and wellness coaching and on coaching research. As the evidence base for coaching expands, it is good to have an updated edition of this wonderful book. The strength of the book on my view is the inclusive nature of the coaching approaches included in Section 1 and the structured way the information is presented, allowing coaches and coaching students to reflect on a particular coaching approach and compare it both with their own practice and with other approaches explored in the book. It is thus a rich resource to help people develop their own approach or coaching model, not by adding tools or techniques in an ad hoc way, but by understanding the underlying assumptions and key features of a particular approach. Section 2 includes a variety of contexts such as managerial, peer and team coaching as well as contexts such as skills and performance, developmental and transformational coaching. Coaches may read just the sections which are immediately relevant to them or may read others, and consider expanding their practice to these other contexts. Section 3 examines current hot topics such as mental health, coaching supervision, ethics and continuing professional development for coaching. These are important issues for all coaches to reflect on, whether coaching students starting out or experienced coaches, wanting to ensure they remain up to date, and always provide the best service possible for those whom they coach. This is an invaluable compendium and I commend it highly. If I could only have one coaching book on my bookshelf, this would be it! -- Dr Grace McCarthy Leading coaching theorists Elaine Cox, Tatiana Bachkirova and david Clutterbuck have presided over a tour de force for all concerned in their second edition of the Complete Handbook of Coaching. Due to their true understanding of what matters in coaching, there is no doubt coaching is worthy of its place alongside established academic and practice traditions. The influential Handbook dances with theoretical perspectives, provides much needed insight on contexts and genres and reveals effective and ethical professional practice to satisfy the curious and conscientious in coaching. A unique range of communities in coaching are connected, bringing together insightful contributors who explore established, current and emerging themes to powerful effect. In reviewing the conceptual orientation of coaching and deconstructing it to reveal its parts in a holistic way, we see what techniques and skills to administer and how to do so congruently. The confident thread of transparency running throughout the book displays informed discussions and critiques, seeks clarity on models and strategies in coaching practice and provides a compelling resource. A yearning in the field of coaching for theoretical underpinnings, practice-based evidence and the accompanying 'know-how' is satisfied with this brave and masterful voice. -- Dr Pamela F. Murray

Elaine is a principal lecturer and the leader of programmes for the International Centre for Coaching and Leadership Development at Oxford Brookes University in the UK, where she also directs the Doctor of Coaching and Mentoring Programme and supervises doctoral students. She is an experienced researcher, author and editor and has recently published Coaching Understood with Sage. She is also the founding editor of The International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching & Mentoring. Tatiana is a Reader in Coaching Psychology at Oxford Brookes University, UK and a Visiting Professor at HSE, Moscow. She is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist recognised for her contribution to coaching psychology with the achievement award from the BPS in 2011. As an active researcher she has published many articles, book chapters and books including Developmental Coaching: Working with the Self. She is also a director of the annual International Conference in Coaching Supervision. David Clutterbuck is visiting professor of coaching and mentoring at both Sheffield Hallam and Oxford Brookes Universities. Co-founder of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and chair of the International Standards for Mentoring Programmes in Employment and a board member of the International Mentoring Association, he supervises coaches around the world. A regular amongst the list of HR Most Influentials, he is author or co-author of 55 books. He consults and lectures globally on coaching and mentoring.

Introduction - Tatiana Bachkirova, Elaine Cox and David Clutterbuck Theoretical Perspectives The Psychodynamic approach to coaching - Graham Lee Cognitive-behavioural coaching - Helen Williams, Nick Edgerton and Stephen Palmer The Solution-focused approach to coaching - Michael Cavanagh and Anthony Grant The Person-centred approach to coaching - Stephen Joseph The Gestalt approach to coaching - Peter Bluckert Existential coaching - Ernesto Spinelli Ontological coaching - Alan Sieler Narrative coaching - David Drake Psychological Development in adulthood and coaching - Tatiana Bachkirova The Transpersonal approach to coaching - John Rowan The Positive Psychology approach to coaching - Ilona Boniwell, Carol Kauffman and Jordan Silberman Transactional Analysis and coaching - Trudi Newton and Rosemary Napper The NLP approach to coaching - Bruce Grimley Contexts and Genres Skills and Performance Coaching - Bob Tschannen-Moran Developmental Coaching - Elaine Cox and Peter Jackson Transformational Coaching - Peter Hawkins and Nick Smith Executive and Leadership Coaching - Jon Stokes and Richard Jolly The Manager as Coach - Andrea Ellinger, Rona Beattie and Bob Hamlin Team Coaching - David Clutterbuck Peer Coaching - Rick Ladyshewsky Life Coaching - Anthony Grant and Michael Cavanagh Health and Wellness Coaching - Margaret Moore and Erica Jackson Career Coaching - Bruce Hazen and Nicole A. Steckler Cross Cultural Coaching - a Paradoxical Perspective - Geoffrey Abbott Mentoring in a Coaching World - Bob Garvey Professional Practice Issues The Future of Coaching as a Profession - David Lane, Reinhard Stelter and Sunny Stout Rostron Coaching Supervision - Peter Hawkins Coaching and Mental Health - Michael Cavanagh and Andrew Buckley Continuing Professional Development for Coaches - Dianne Stober Ethics in Coaching - Diane Brennan and Leni Wildflower Researching Coaching - Annette Fillery-Travis and Elaine Cox Conclusion - Tatiana Bachkirova, David Clutterbuck and Elaine Cox