half day workshop

PRESCRIPTIVE EXECUTIVE COACHING: A CBT MODEL FOR CONSULTATION
Arthur Freeman, Governors State University, USA and  Corey Nigro, Sheridan Shores Care and Rehabilitation Center, USA

AC Hotel Room: Montjuic

Executive coaching (EC) has become a practical, competency-based, and action oriented model for helping individuals at virtually every level of management to have greater success and a more positive impact on their work, those with whom they work and on their lives. The present proposal has grown out of a confluence of work and ideas that merge the “action impact” nature of executive coaching with a theoretical and applied model that has grown out of cognitive behavioral theory (CBT). The executive coaching/ consultation model must meet several criteria.  It must be short term, time-limited, focused, highly structured, realistic, immediately useable, problem-oriented, solution-focused, structured, multi-dimensional, dynamic, and prescriptive. No one coaching protocol can possibly fit all possible contingencies.  It is essential for the coach/consultant to construct a coaching plan for each skill level, expressed need, and assessed skill set of the recipient of the executive coaching whether the recipient is an individual, a team, or an organization.  The prescriptive issues revolve around the issues of what works for whom? Under what circumstances?  In what settings? When is it most likely to be effective?  What are the predictors and mediators of change?  What factors will facilitate change?  What factors will impede change?  How can the coach predict, within a reasonable level of certainty, which route or combination and sequence of factors will yield the greatest gain?  What would be the time frame for optimal effect? What factors will help to increase the dissipation of gain(s)?  What factors will serve to increase the maintenance of gain?  Finally, how can a prescriptive model be built that is multi-factorial and takes into account the behavioral (action), cognitive (perceptive), environmental/interpersonal (situational), sociocultural (related to the individual’s culture, subculture and organizational culture), and affective contexts (emotional) in which we all live and operate?  A substantial body of research indicates that CBT can be efficacious for addressing a broad range of behavioral, affective, situational, and perceptive difficulties. Our goal is to apply the empirically supported CBT model to an area where it has had little exposure, that of executive coaching.

Arthur (Art) Freeman is Visiting Professor of Psychology at Governors State University, and Chief Psychologist and Director of Training at Sheridan Shores Care and Rehabilitation, Chicago.   He completed his doctoral work at Teachers College-Columbia University. He studied at the Alfred Adler Institute in New York under Drs. Kurt and Alexandra Adler, the Institute for Rational Living under Dr. Albert Ellis, and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Cognitive Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania under Dr. Aaron T. Beck.  In addition to 60+ book chapters, reviews and journal articles, he has published over sixty professional books. His work has been translated into Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. He is board certified in Clinical Psychology, Family Psychology, and in Behavioral Psychology.  Dr. Freeman is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (divisions of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Family Psychology), of the American Psychological Society, of the Academy of Clinical Psychology, and of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association. Dr. Freeman is a past president of both the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy and the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy.  He now serves as Vice President of American Board of Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology.  He is a Distinguished Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. Art has lectured in thirty five countries over the past 28 years.  Corey Nigro is the Administrative Director at Sheridan Shores Care and  Rehabilitation in Chicago.  He completed his undergraduate training at the  University of Illinois at Chicago and his master's degree at Roosevelt  University in Chicago.  He is completing his doctoral degree in clinical psychology with a specialization in neuropsychology at the Adler School of Professional Psychology.  At Adler, he has completed certification in Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Organizational Development.  He has published several articles in the areas of sleep disorders and chronic pain.  He has lectured at over 20 area hospitals and clinics in the Chicago area on the topics of severe psychopathology, cognitive behavioral therapy, and psychological and neuropsychological assessment.  He is on the faculty of The Illinois School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University.

Key References:
Peltier, B (2001). The psychology of execvutive coaching: Theory and application. New York: Brunner Routledge.  Sperry, L. (2004). Executive coaching: The essential guide for mental health professionals. New York: Brunner Routledge.