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Coaching for Rational Living: Rational-Emotive, Cognitive-Behavioral Perspectives

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Coaching continues to grow both as a professional occupation as well as a domain using a group of techniques for supporting people to achieve specific goals in various areas of their lives (life, leadership, work performance, career, health, parenting, sports). It is considered a personalized and systematic learning process dealing with non-clinical problems and challenges, which has gained much knowledge from psychotherapeutic approaches. The most evidence-based and popular psychotherapeutic approach that has been adapted to coaching is cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) which was adapted into cognitive -behavioral coaching (CBC). In this book, we have positioned Rational Emotive, Cognitive Behavioral Coaching (RE-CBC), based on Albert Ellis’ Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) for the future. We have done this by defining what it is, establishing its scientific respectability as best practice, presenting its robust theory for helping coaches understand their coachees differently from other coaching approaches, illustrating its professional practice as applied to diverse problems and coachees, and how RE-CBC offers a sound theory for both developmental coaching and problem focused coaching.

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  1. International Coaching Institute, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Oana A. David

  2. Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Michael E. Bernard

  3. College of Education, California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA

    Michael E. Bernard

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  1. Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Michael E. Bernard

  2. International Coaching Institute, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Oana A. David

Appendix: References: REBC Literature Chronology

Appendix: References: REBC Literature Chronology

1960

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1970

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1980

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1990

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2000

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2010

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Katsikis, D., Kostogiannis, C., & Dryden, D. (2016). A rational-emotive behavior approach to life coaching. Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies,16, 3–18.

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Ratiu, L., David, O., & Baban, A. (2017). Developing managerial skills through coaching: Efficacy of a cognitive-behavioral coaching program. Journal of Rational-Emotive Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 35, 88–110. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10942-015-0225-8

Dryden, W. (2017). Very brief, cognitive behavioural coaching. Hove: Routledge.

Dryden, W. (2018). Rational emotive behavioural coaching: Distinctive features. Berlin: Springer.

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David, O.A., Bernard, M.E. (2018). Coaching for Rational Living: Rational-Emotive, Cognitive-Behavioral Perspectives. In: Bernard, M., David, O. (eds) Coaching for Rational Living. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74067-6_1

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