Defining Coaching Psychology: Debating coaching and coaching psychology definitions.

The British Psychological Society’s Special Group in Coaching Psychology (SGCP) has been reviewing its standards. As part of this journey, we have also taken the opportunity to revisit the nature of coaching psychology. What is ‘coaching’? How does it differ from ‘coaching psychology’? We explore these in a longer paper within ICPR. In this paper we aim to provide a short review of definitions and offer thoughts on a new definition for coaching psychology.