Stephen Palmer & Alison Whybrow

To many members of the British Psychological Society (BPS) it may appear that the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology (SGCP) has come from nowhere to somewhere in a short space of time. It held its inaugural meeting on 15 December 2004 and by March 2005, it had become the third largest BPS subsystem with over 1600 Founder Members and by December 2005, it had almost 2000 members. Its path through the BPS bureaucracy helped to shape it into an inclusive branch of applied psychology. This paper will cover the history of the coaching psychology movement within the BPS.

Keywords: coaching psychology, coaching, British Psychological Society, Special Group.

Full article: Volume 1, Issue 1 pages 5 - 11