Coaching und Neurowissenschaften

Representatives of coaching hold that coaching and psychotherapy largely overlap regarding concepts and methods. Therefore, they recommend to adapt from established psychotherapies like behavioral therapy or psychoanalysis scientifically proven concepts and successful treatments. However, psychological and neurobiological personality and effectiveness research demonstrates that the established psychotherapies reveal clear deficits in their working concepts and interventions. In general, the trustful relationship between client/patient and coach/therapist, called “working alliance” or “therapeutic alliance” turns out to be the most effective factor. There is no other form of interventions that is equally effective in all clients or patients. Thus, any coach must be capable of sufficiently identifying the mental state of the client, his/her unique personality, type and strength of his/her deficits and the available resources. Each treatment must occur in parallel at three different levels, i.?e. the mental state and memories, behavior and the manifestations of deficits and problems in the body state.