Talk:Coaching/Archives/2020

Therapeutic coaching

I removed the recently added section on "Therapeutic coaching" because it only cited one paper, published in a new and obscure journal, that has not had any obviously significant impact, and written by authors that are not obviously influential in the field. Anyone can get a paper published in one of the thousands of new journals that have popped up on the Internet in the last few years. Without further evidence of the significance of this term (one might even call it a neologism?), devoting a section to it in this article is undue weight.

I will also note that there is nothing new about pointing out the similarity of, or overlap between, coaching and psychotherapy. (There was some discussion earlier about this on this talk page above, though it may be archived now.) Of the many examples that could be cited, one is the use of the word "coaching" in Leslie S. Greenberg's book on emotion-focused therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy: Coaching Clients to Work Through Their Feelings. Biogeographist (talk) 15:47, 29 November 2020 (UTC)