1st Edition
Single-Session Coaching and One-At-A-Time Coaching Distinctive Features
In Single-Session Coaching and One-At-A-Time Coaching: Distinctive Features, Windy Dryden presents a clear and accessible overview of the theory and practice of Single-Session Coaching and One-At-A-Time Coaching (SSC/OAATC). Presented in the highly accessible Distinctive Features format, Dryden explores how these approaches allow coaches and clients to tackle problems and find solutions quickly and flexibly.
Single-Session Coaching and One-At-A-Time Coaching is split in two parts, providing a complete understanding of both the theory and practice of SSC/OAATC, as well as clearly examining key topics, including the foundations of SSC/OAATC, what makes a good SSC/OAATC coach and coachee, common misconceptions, preparing for and structuring a session, and considering significant coachee variables. It explains key terminology, such as the difference between Problem-Focused and Development-Focused SSC/OAATC, and portrays these differences in useful case studies to show the benefits of each for individual clients. Finally, it concludes with details on following up with the coachee, including key questions to ask.
With case studies throughout, this approach can be applied in various clinical settings, such as primary care, and non-clinical settings, such as voluntary sectors, and is ideal for time-limited scenarios in comparison to other, more time-consuming, coaching methods. This will be an invaluable tool for coaches in practice and in training, as well as for academics and students of coaching.
Preface
Part I Theory
1: Introducing Single-Session Coaching and One-At-A-Time Coaching (SSC/OAATC)
2: What is Single-Session Coaching (SSC) and One-At-A-Time Coaching (OAATC)?
3: The foundations of SSC/OAATC
4: People can be helped in one session of coaching or in one coaching session at a time
5: The single session and one-at-a-time mindset and mode of delivery
6: Why SSC/OAATC?
7: Development-focused SSC/OAATC
8: Problem-focused SSC/OAATC
9: The working alliance in SSC/OAATC
10: What makes a good SSC/OAATC coach and coachee?
11: Misconceptions of SSC/OAATC Part
Part II Practice
12: Good practice in SSC/OAATC
13: What not to do in SSC/OAATC
14: Placing SSC/OAATC in context
15: Responding to the first contact
16: Contracting for SSC/OAATC
17: Structuring the session effectively
18: Preparing for the session: The pre-session telephone conversation
19: Beginning the session
20: Creating and keeping to a meaningful focus in the session
21: Agreeing on a development-based process objective or problem-based process goal
22: Identifying and utilising important coachee variables in the session
23: Facilitating change in SSC/OAATC: General factors
24: Facilitating change in development-focused SSC/OAATC
25: Facilitating change in problem-focused SSC/OAATC
26: Action planning and implementation in development-focused SSC/OAATC
27: Rehearsing, action planning and implementing the solution in problem-focused SSC/OAATC
28: Identifying and dealing with roadblocks
29: Summarising, moving forward and tying-up loose ends
30: Following-up
Notes
References
Index
Biography
Windy Dryden, Ph.D., is in clinical and consultative practice and is an international authority on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has worked in psychotherapy for more than 40 years and is the author or editor of over 230 books.
