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Stress Management and Coaching: from rapid case conceptualisation to intervention

Case conceptualisation in coaching and coaching psychology practice has gone out of fashion in Europe and probably elsewhere too. Yet most coachees provide us with all the information we need if only we listen to them carefully. This workshop will cover a collaborative dual systems framework for a rapid case conceptualisation taking approximately seven minutes. It will also include a longer in-depth cognitive-visual process of stress mapping which can be used to assess both coachees and their organisations. Understandably, stressed coachees may be hard to motivate or stay focused on their goals. Motivation imagery and goal focused imagery can be used to assist coachees with these two problems.

In the workplace managers and executives are often perceived by employees as being stress carriers. When working with managers, coaches and coaching psychologists can use a free downloadable tool to focus on helping the manager to develop stress management competencies that benefit them and their staff.

Most practitioners know how to complete 5 column ABCDE stress management and/or performance coaching worksheets used in cognitive behavioural coaching. However, often they do not focus on the real issue from the coachee’s perspective that needs addressing in coaching. At a crucial stage inference chaining often needs to be used to clarify the most important aspect of the activating event. Correct assessment at this stage helps the coach and coachee to focus on what needs to be addressed later in coaching session.

This workshop will provides skills practice for practitioners who want to integrate a range of assessment and intervention coaching skills within their coaching psychology and coaching practice. Pre-workshop reading will be provided.

The objectives of this workshop are to:
•Practise undertaking a dual systems, rapid case conceptualisation
•Gain knowledge of stress mapping
•Become knowledgeable about to two models of stress
•Practise using motivation imagery and goal focused imagery
•Consider using the Stress Management Competency Indicator Tool for Managers within coaching and coaching psychology practice
•Use a 5 column ABCDE stress management and/or performance coaching worksheet including inference chaining to enhance assessment

Workshop Leader – Professor Stephen Palmer

Professor Stephen Palmer PhD is a Chartered Psychologist (Health & Counselling), an APECS Accredited Executive Coach and Supervisor, a Society for Coaching Psychology Accredited Coaching Psychologist, and Founder Fellow of the Association for Coaching. He has written or edited 35 books including the Handbook of Coaching Psychology: A Guide for Practitioners (with Whybrow, 2007) and Stress Counselling: A Rational Emotive Behaviour Approach (with Ellis et al. 1997). He is UK Co-ordinating Editor of the International Coaching Psychology Review, and Executive Editor of Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice. He is Honorary Professor of Psychology and Director of the Coaching Psychology Unit at City University and Director of the Centre for Coaching, London. He was the UK’s first Visiting Professor of Work Based Learning & Stress Management, first Chair of the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology and Hon Vice President of the Society for Coaching Psychology. In his 2004 BBC 1 television series, The Stress Test, he demonstrated cognitive coaching and cognitive therapy. In 2008 the British Psychological Society, Special Group in Coaching Psychology gave him the 'Lifetime Achievement Award in Recognition of Distinguished contribution to coaching psychology', awarded at the 1st European Coaching Psychology Conference. His interests include jazz, astronomy, coastal walking, writing, travel and art.