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15 Can cognitive behavioural team coaching increase well-being?

Ulrika Hultgren, Stephen Palmer & Siobhain O’Riordan

Abstract

This paper aims to describe a model for cognitive behavioural team coaching (CBTC), derived from existing cognitive behavioural theories and individual coaching models. In an organisational context coaching a team to increase well-being, instead of separate individuals, would appear on face value to be more effective. However, it is appropriate to explore what the existing literature can tell us about team coaching, well-being and stress as well as the possible relationships between these areas. There also seems to be a need for clarification of the term ‘team coaching’, so it can be differentiated from other team activities and this is a theme that will be explored in this paper.

A proposed pilot study is also described, aiming to investigate if CBTC can increase well-being and lessen strain among team members in an organisational setting by using an individual CBC model adapted to team conditions.

Keywords

Well-being, team coaching, cognitive behavioural team coaching, stress; coaching psychology.

Original publication details: Hultgren, U., Palmer, S., & O’Riordan, S. (2013, December). Can cognitive behavioural team coaching increase well-being? The Coaching Psychologist, 9(2), 100–110. Reproduced with permission of The British Psychological Society.

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