Kasia Szymanska

Welcome to the Summer issue of The Coaching Psychologist. For those of you who were unable to attend our 1st International Coaching Psychology Conference in December, 2006, we are delighted that the some of the conference presenters accepted an invitation to submit their papers to TCP. So, the first three papers, by Sheila Panchal and Ellen Jackson, Angela Mansi, Fiona Beddoes Jones and Julia Miller respectively discussing coaching for clients in their early 30s, psychometrics and cognitive short-term coaching exemplify the expertise in theory and practise in the coaching psychology field. Please don’t forget that our next conference is coming up on the 17th and 18th of December this year, so do take a look at the notice for the conference in this issue and the invitation to submit papers.

Our fourth paper, by Stephen Palmer, introduces the ‘PRACTICE’ model; a sevenstep solution focused framework which can be used within various coaching contexts.

In the fifth paper Bruce Grimley responds to an article in the April issue of TCP by Linder-Pelz and Hall on the topic of NLP. In the next paper, the second in a series on coaching psychology and clinical disorders, I address the universal problem of anxiety and its impact on the client-coach relationship.

Following on from our introduction of a special ‘International News’ section in the last edition of TCP, Jens Boris Larsen, Tina R. Kilburn and Anders Myszak write about the growth and future plans of the Danish Society of Evidence-based Coaching.

The final paper, from the SGCP Committee addresses the issue of supervision. This is an important paper, so do take time to read it thoroughly and comment on it.

Lastly we also have two book reviews from Joanna Bawa and Conall Platts. If you are interested in writing book reviews please e-mail me directly at [email protected]