Counseling and Coaching in Times of Crisis and Transition: From Research to Practice

Laura Nota · Salvatore Soresi

Aug 2017 · Routledge

About this eBook

Counseling and Coaching in Times of Crisis and Transition explores how threats and challenges caused by rapid social and technological changes require counselors and coaches to rethink their usual ways of working, and, in some cases, even abandon their traditional theoretical anchors. The authors of this forward-thinking book argue that practitioners who aim to help others strengthen their resources can no longer afford to wait for clients in their offices or offer them protected, objective and neutral professional relationships.

Contributors from around the world argue that there is a real need for new counseling and coaching actions to be delivered in different contexts: counselors and coaches should be able to use heterogeneous languages and interventions, as well as numerous relationship modalities and activities in order to streamline the support that they offer to people in sectors as diverse as health and well-being, life and career design, prevention and community inclusion, work inclusion, and schools. The book provides an evidence-based framework, with numerous counseling and coaching examples that are capable of promoting people’s strengths, whether this be face-to-face, in groups, or online.

This book will appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of counseling and coaching, as well as those with an interest in psychological, social and educational science. It should also be essential reading for practitioners and policymakers in a diverse range of contexts, including those working on intervention and support for vulnerable people, non-traditional and disadvantaged students, and people with disabilities.

About the author

Laura Nota is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology at the University of Padova, Italy. She is Delegate of the Rector for Inclusion and Disability. Her research interests concern the fields of career counseling and coaching, and psychology of inclusion.

Salvatore Soresi is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology at the University of Padova, Italy. His research activities concern counseling, career counseling and career coaching, and psychology of disability and inclusion.