Unlocking psychological health: Unconditional self-acceptance

Szymanska, Kasia

doi:10.53841/bpstcp.2010.6.2.122

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2010

DOI: 10.53841/bpstcp.2010.6.2.122

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Unlocking psychological health: Unconditional self-acceptance

Kasia Szymanska¹

Abstract: One of the key premises in Multimodal Coaching and Rational Emotive Behavioural Coaching (REBC) is unconditional self-acceptance (Dryden & Yankura, 1992; Dryden & Ellis, 1997; Lazarus, 1977; Palmer, 2009; and Wilding & Palmer, 2010). Unlike in Cognitive Behavioural Coaching (CBC) where the emphasis is more on identifying and improving low self-esteem, in REBC the emphasis focuses on self and other acceptance.

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‘It's good for their self-esteem’: the substance beneath the label

Leather

2013

Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning

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This paper provides an informed and critical understanding of the concept of self-esteem. It explores this psychological construct in relation to its use in adventure education and outdoor learning. Enhancing a participant's self-esteem is perceived to be fundamentally a good thing and is culturally linked to the Hahnian notion that implies outdoor education is good for character-building and more recently personal development. This paper suggests that the improvement of self-esteem has become a reified programme outcome as well as an argument for the value and importance of outdoor education programmes. In this paper I seek to address the often uncritical and at times evangelical claim that outdoor programmes enhance self-esteem. This paper looks at the development of self-esteem generally and then considers its appearance in the outdoor education literature. Aspects of this that relate to outdoor learning and adventure education include: development of the self, behaviour, disaffected young people, recent UK developments and common misconceptions regarding self-esteem. These are explored and their implications for practice and research are considered. The essence of this paper is that outdoor educators need to be more critical, informed and specific about exactly what it is they are trying to achieve, how their programmes are evaluated, particularly with outcomes that are related to potential changes in 'self' and how these changes are measured. RationaleThe purpose of this paper is to provide some substance beneath the self-esteem label; namely an informed and critical discussion and examination of the self-esteem concept as used in adventure education and outdoor learning. To this end I explore the psychological construct of self-esteem, and other similar terms, specifically in relation to their use in adventure education and outdoor learning. Enhancing a participant's self-esteem is perceived to be fundamentally a good thing and is culturally

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Maximising female leader development through simultaneous individual and group coaching

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2021

Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Prac

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Female leadership development has become a key issue in organisation's strategy to ensure equal representation of male and female leaders throughout organisations, including top management. This article investigates the deployment of a combined programme of executive and group coaching to support female leader development in a multinational. Drawing on the experiences of key stakeholders: clients, coaches and the programme team using a case study approach, it offers a rich depiction of this novel use of dual forms of coaching. The findings and discussion identify the personal value of individual executive coaching, the collective value of group coaching and the synergies achieved from the interplay of the simultaneous use of both forms of coaching within the organisation, and beyond. These findings have theoretical and practical implications for our understanding of coaching as a social process, the effect of combining coaching approaches, and female leader development, emphasising the need for further research on coaching as a social process as part of leadership development.

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Unlocking psychological health: Unconditional self-acceptance

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‘It's good for their self-esteem’: the substance beneath the label

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Maximising female leader development through simultaneous individual and group coaching

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