Coaching and Trauma: Moving Beyond the Survival Self (Coaching in Practice Series)

Why do coaches need to understand trauma? This book highlights the role coaches must play - and how it differs to psychotherapists - in supporting clients with trauma. A role that both enhances the coach's skills and supports their clients' personal development.

Trauma isn't an event, it is a lasting internal process through which the 'here and now' of life experience is affected by the 'there and then' of traumatising experience. Vaughan Smith provides a way to understand the internal proce...