This chapter explores a range of topics related to obesity, including its prevalence, medical aspects, and associated complications. Other relevant areas include the psychosocial factors pertaining to societal attitudes and individual mental health issues, vocational implications concerning work/wage discrimination, Social Security regulations, and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protections. The chapter also discusses the implications for rehabilitation counselors regarding vocational and mental health counseling. The implications of working with persons who are obese or overweight may be broken down into mental health counseling and/or vocational counseling. Obesity and related medical complications have soared to the forefront of medical conditions that lead to premature death, discrimination in employment, compromised quality of life, and negative psychosocial implications. Counselors who are aware of the medical, psychosocial, and vocational implications of obesity can assist clients in a variety of ways, keeping Olkin’s (1999) recommendations in mind regarding disability-affirmative therapy.

This chapter begins by providing an overview of the theoretical basis for integral coaching. Then, it discusses constructive developmental theory and the concept of “vertical development”, and presents the theoretical basis. The chapter highlights what makes integral coaching unique and sets it apart from other schools. Integral theory is an integrative metatheory, which means that it attempts to explain all of reality through the integration of data and theories from all major domains of human inquiry, including the hard sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts. The chapter provides a brief description of levels, and then goes into greater depth regarding a particular approach to coaching with levels of self-identity described by constructive developmental psychology. It summarizes unique features, as well as highlights other ways integral coaching is unique. The chapter concludes that the various approaches to integral coaching offer a powerful way of supporting whole-person development in a complex world.

There is power in revisiting the underlying foundational principles of our past and looking at how they can inform our present and future functioning. This chapter looks back at the historic foundational principles of rehabilitation psychology (RP) and shows the links to current research on the psychology of well-being and explores implications for providing meaningful interventions that could improve the lives of persons with disability and chronic illness. It reviews how positive psychology (PP) approaches have been used for people with disabilities (PWD), presents an overview of the development and structure of well-being therapy (WBT), including a literature review, and then demonstrates how it could be applied to people with spinal cord injury (SCI). The chapter concludes with a discussion of the broader implications for utilizing these approaches more widely in RP as well as a cautionary note.

This chapter introduces multiplicity of mind models and describes the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model. It focuses on four coaching applications of IFS used by coaching thought leaders: strengths-based inner family model by Margaret Moore; inner team coaching and IFS by Isabel D’arenberg; concentrated coaching model by Mark Hurwich; and Willo3™: an organizational model by Toufic Hakim and Laura Crandall The four models of IFS in coaching are novel and creative applications of IFS that serve as unique tools for cultivating human potential and thriving through personal and organizational transformation and shapeshifting. As coaches and psychologists continue to break new ground in applying the principles of IFS, beyond the healing process of IFS therapy, one can imagine future models that allow people to map their personalities or cultures, better understand and balance over-developed and under-developed capacities, and offer at-will tools for self-transformation, even daily.

The results from coaching research suggest that coaching offers a number of positive benefits including having a positive impact upon leadership. This chapter begins by reviewing the broader landscape of coaching research. It then explores the specific research underpinning a range of “key” factors relating to coaching including the coach, client, organizational clients, and the relationship between the coach and the client. The chapter provides a brief description on: the development of coaching research; coach factors; coachee factors; coach–coachee relationship factors; tripartite relationship and client factors; the role of coaching supervision; and methodological approaches in coaching. Executive coaching is frequently used by corporations to help executives develop their capacity to deal with change and to give them support in reaching their organizational or work-related goals. A key focus within the coaching psychology literature has been on understanding what factors and attributes differentiate the most successful coaches.

The skills of working with the psychosocial aspects of grief, death, dying, and loss are essential, particularly in working with persons who have acquired chronic illness and disability. This chapter helps elucidate important psychosocial issues in death and dying as it relates to how individuals experience and express grief within the context of the person’s physical, psychological, cognitive, emotional, social, cultural, and spiritual well-being. Recognition in the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM- 5) of the Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder diagnostic category provides legitimacy for the individual’s sense of loss and mourning based on multiple events related to death and dying. It is essential that counselors address such psychosocial concerns clients because of the added therapeutic value and ethical obligation to guide the individual and his or her family in important decisions regarding death and dying.