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Psychological Blockers to Successful Coaching Outcomes

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As a coach, it is very important for you to have a thorough understanding of the different internal psychological blockers of coachees that significantly interfere with their problem-solving ability, growth and capacity to change. These blockers such as procrastination, social anxiety, perfectionism, anger and feelings of inadequacy may present themselves in initial goal setting discussions or quite commonly as coachees undertake to implement new patterns of behavior.

You can consider a psychological blocker as an established habit involving a way of thinking, feeling and behaving that interferes with the ability of someone to achieve their goals and may in themselves be unpleasant to experience.

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  1. Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Michael E. Bernard

  2. College of Education, California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA

    Michael E. Bernard

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  1. Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Michael E. Bernard

  2. International Coaching Institute, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Oana A. David

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Bernard, M.E. (2018). Psychological Blockers to Successful Coaching Outcomes. In: Bernard, M., David, O. (eds) Coaching for Rational Living. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74067-6_4

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