Editorial

Kasia Szymanska

Welcome to the second edition of The Coaching Psychologist. I’m really pleased to report that we are receiving a steady stream of innovative and motivating articles, so please keep up the pace and e-mail me your manuscripts directly at [email protected]. We have also extended the word length of papers to 1500 words and I’m still trying to build a pool of book reviewers. Christopher Ridgeway, our very first book reviewer, has kindly sent me a long list of books suitable for review in The Coaching Psychologist and I have been busy contacting publishers to let them know about our new publication. The books are starting to trickle in, so I hope soon to have a selection of books ready to send out to reviewers. If you are interested in a specific area of coaching psychology do let me know in your e-mail and I will try to find a book that matches your interest.

This edition reflects the diversity of the coaching psychology arena; in the first paper Stephen Joseph addresses the personcentred approach to coaching psychology, Jonathan Passmore outlines a model which can be applied in organisational settings and in the third article Sally Johnston writes about the importance of goal setting. Following on from his article in the first edition of The Coaching Psychologist, Ho Law discusses the important issue of ethics and human rights in relation to coaching psychology practice. In the next article Nick Edgerton and Stephen Palmer describe the application of the SPACE model within the context of cognitive behavioural coaching. The sixth and seventh papers address positive psychology; John Rowan replies to Alex Linley’s and Susan Harrington’s paper published in our first issue, followed by a response from Alex and Susan. In the final paper, Angela Puri and Stephen Palmer consider the application of coaching for disability issues.

In the next section of The Coaching Psychologist, Pauline Willis and Clare Huffington provide an invaluable update on the work of the Profession Practice and Research Subcommittee, Siobhain provides an overview of the SGCP website, Jennifer Liston-Smith reports on a recent workshop and kicks off her first conference diary and finally we have a book review from Christopher Ridgeway.

If I don’t get to see you at the conference in December have a good break over the Christmas period.