Psychological Development in Adulthood and Coaching (original) (raw)

The strength of coaching in comparison to other ways of facilitating learning and change is in providing support in a way that is unique to each client. Therefore understanding the role of individual differences in coaching is important. Theories of psychological developmental of adults address a significant dimension to the knowledge of individual differences by suggesting that people differ in ways that cannot simply be explained by personality types, learning styles or personal preferences, all of which are usually seen as relatively stable for each individual. These theories propose that people undergo significant changes during their adult life in the way they make meaning of their experiences, reason about their values and act in the world. In addition to identifying certain patterns in the above changes, common to all people, theories of adult development suggest that changes occur in sequential stages through which people progress. Although such development occurs naturally ...