Criticality in Coaching and Beyond

Towards a Deeper Understanding
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-12923-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: The Professional Coaching Series

This book explores the concept of criticality, a quality that supports a deeper understanding of complex situations that people encounter at work and interpersonal relationship. For contemporary coaches it offers ideas on how they can develop the essential quality of criticality to work with clients in a significantly changing world.

Criticality is seen not just as critical thinking skills but as a state of mind that involves a philosophical stance, an emotional attitude and an agentic action. The book provides coaches with intellectually rich material and many practical ways for the development of their criticality and existentially coherent ways of responding to current realities. This in turn should equip coaches for helping clients to question and examine their work and life in the most meaningful ways.

This book will appeal to both new and experienced coaches, coaching supervisors and coaching educators. It will also be of interest to other practitioners of professional services based on interpersonal relationships, such as those in applied psychology, counselling, and psychotherapy.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bachkirova, Tatiana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Coaching, Training, Supervision

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Why criticality is important and why now 2.  Criticality differentiated 3. Criticality as a state of mind 4. Criticality as a capacity 5. Criticality as an activity 6. Being critical of criticality 7. Criticality as the foundation for a theory ‘Change from the Negative’ 8. Conclusion: What is the ultimate purpose of criticality?

Über Autor(innen)

Tatiana Bachkirova is Professor of Coaching Psychology at the International Centre for Coaching and Mentoring Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is a recognized international speaker, and her many publications include books, empirical research and conceptual papers on the complex issues in the coaching discipline.