Science

Are Coaches Really Aware of Mental Health Issues?

CEUs: 1.0 CC / 0.5 RD

Primary Facilitator(s)

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  Verity Symcox

  Executive Coach and Behavioural Change Specialist
  Verity Symcox Executive Coaching, United Kingdom

Coaching is not therapy. Coaching clients are assumed as mentally healthy and able to engage in the coaching process, but what actually do you as a coach know about mental health within coaching practice? How do coaches make sense of mental health within their coaching practice? Are you able to recognize your clients' symptoms of poor mental health before it's too late? This session highlights the findings from a piece of graduate-level research exploring these questions. An incredibly topical and important piece of new research, offering some in-depth detailed findings from coaches around the globe. The research offers in-depth detailed findings from coaches around the globe and draws on ICF's research on referring clients to therapy to discover if coaches are able to recognize the symptoms of poor mental health, and what this means for the progression of the coaching profession and the challenges mental health brings to coaching practice.

Learning Objectives:

• Define what mentally healthy means for coaching practice and be able to use this to measure clients and help make sense of client mental health and manage making referrals.
• Create an actionable to-do list to ensure that your coaching practice has practical support procedures for emergency mental health care and you are confident in making other referrals.
• Learn how in coaching practice, you identify the symptoms of poor mental health in practice from other similar symptoms and develop an awareness of your assumptions of mental health.