Part I. Coaching as profession
Is coaching on its way to becoming a profession? A profession-centric sociological assessment / Beate Fietze
The ambivalent relationship between coaching research and coaching practice : discreetly ignoring, critically observing or beneficially cooperating? / Silja Kotte, Katrin Oellerich, Denise Elisabeth Hinn and Heidi Möller
Hard to evaluate : coaching services / Siegfried Greif
The professional relationship in coaching
polarities and paradoxes / Christoph Schmidt-Lellek
Part II. Coaching in connection with other professional formats
Coaching in the context of social systems / Thomas Dallüge
Coaching in relation to psychotherapy / Christoph Schmidt-Lellek
Coaching in consultation of companies / Thomas Dallüge
Coaching in projects / Ulrich Schueler
Part III. Knowledge and competencies in coaching
Experience
science
philosophy three types of knowledge for conceiving consultation / Ferdinand Buer
Hermeneutics for coaching / Christoph Schmidt-Lellek
The potential diversity of a coach's roles / Astrid Schreyögg
Competency requirements for coaches / Ingo Steinke
Coaching and group dynamics / Thomas Bachmann
Emotions in the context of coaching / Beate West-Leuer
Part IV. Conceptional variations of coaching
Internal coaching within organizations / Astrid Schreyögg
Coaching in SMES
the German Mittelstand professional counseling "from next door" / Cornelia Seewald
Life coaching : family-of-origin dynamics / Astrid Schreyögg
Gender coaching
a critical analysis / Gabriele Bollhöfer
Coaching through modern media / Harald Gei€ler and Stella Kanatouri.