Single-Session Coaching and One-At-A-Time Coaching

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.

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