Reference Material

Basic Psychological Needs in Motivation, Development, and Wellness.

ISBN 9781462538966

Self-determination theory (SDT) is an empirically based, organismic theory of human behaviour and personality development.

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Putting Best Practices to Work for Your Clients.

ISBN 9780471720867

Change is a constant. So, too, is the search for better, more effective ways to create and sustain change. This handbook is about articulating theoretically grounded, evidence-based approaches to executive, workplace and personal coaching.

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ISBN 9781138860995

Positive Psychology Coaching in Practice provides a comprehensive overview of positive psychology coaching, bringing together the best of science and practice., highlighting current research, and emphasising the applicability of each element to coaching.

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ISBN 9781119993155

Welcome to this second book in the Wiley Blackwell Industrial and Organizational Psychology series. The focus is on coaching and mentoring which are two fairly recent developments in I/O psychology. In terms of research, coaching and mentoring have really only come to the fore since 2000.

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Theories, Tools and Techniques to Achieve Outstanding Coaching Performance.

ISBN 9781789665475

This book brings together a range of the best writings on the subject of coaching without judgement or favour. It gives the reader an opportunity to sample the field and take responsibility for their own choice of which path or paths to follow or combine.

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A Guide for Practitioners.

ISBN 9781138775329

This book provides a clear and extensive guide to the theory, research and practice of coaching psychology. An international selection of coaching psychologists and coaches outline recent developments from a broad spectrum of areas. Unique in its scope, this key text will be essential reading for coaching psychologists and coaches.

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A Complete Guide to Best-Practice Coaching and Training

ISBN 9781789664461

Coaching is a relatively new profession and yet arguably as old as human communication itself. Socrates is sometimes said to have been the first coach, because many of the quotations attributed to him display the coaching approach of asking questions instead of giving instructions.

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ISBN 9781473973053

Coaching is a human development process that involves structured, focused interaction and the use of appropriate strategies, tools and techniques to promote desirable and sustainable change for the benefit of the client and potentially for other stakeholders.

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A Student’s Handbook.

ISBN 9781138482234

We are now well into the third millennium. and there is ever-increasing interest in unravelling the mysteries of the human brain and mind. This interest is reflected in the substantial upsurge of scientific research within cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

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The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell

ISBN 9780062839268

Bill Campbell helped to build some of Silicon Valley’s greatest companies, including Google, Apple and Intuit, and to create over a trillion dollars in value. A former college football player and coach, Bill mentored visionaries such as Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt, and coached dozens of leaders on both coasts.

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A Simple and Actionable Guide to Increasing Performance, Engagement and Ownership

ISBN 9780730391494

Emotional Intelligence, or lack of it, has become one of the most talked-about issues in our workplace over the past decade. With interest increasing over time, we now recognise that while our pure intellectual horsepower might help us land a job, it’s our emotional intelligence that determines exactly where we will end up in our careers.

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How I Founded Australia’s First Unicorn (David Shein)

ISBN 9780646847399

Twenty-one years after selling the company that I founded, Com Tech Communications, for an enterprise value of over $1 billion - arguably Australia’s first tech unicorn, I decided to write a book. Drawing on over three decades of experience, and sharing some lessons that will hopefully provide valuable advice to anyone looking to start a company.

All proceeds from the sale of this book go to the Black Dog Institute.

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A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Wellbeing

ISBN 9781864712988

You might think you know about well-being and positive psychology but there’s so much more you can learn in FLOURISH. With flashes of brilliance, rigorous research, and stories so absorbing that they’re impossible to put down, Seligman’s new book contains wisdom garnered over a long and storied career - a calling that leads him to work with billionaire philanthropists, British lords, Army generals, Australian school kids, and thousands of bright and creative scientists, students, educators, and mental health professionals.

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How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

ISBN 9781864713039

Dr. Seligman’s new book LEARNED OPTIMISM is a timely contribution to the psychological literature both as a self help book for the general community and for the professional psychologist wishing to keep abreast with some of the latest developments in cognitive behavioural research.

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Using the New Positive Psychology to Realise Your Potential for Lasting Fulfilment

ISBN 9781864713022

For the last half century psychology has been consumed with a single topic only - mental illness -and has done fairly well with it. Psychologists can now measure such once-fuzzy concepts as depression, schizophrenia, and alcoholism with considerable precision. We now know a good deal about their genetics, their biochemistry, and their psychological causes. Best of all we have learned how to relieve these disorders.

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