Navigating duty of care in coaching

Posted on: 11 Mar 2025

As humans, we all have some degree of duty of care. For some, it is an inherent moral responsibility, an inner compass for personal decisions and behaviour. For others, it is a legal obligation enforced by external professional or regulatory standards.

 

Within the field of coaching, there are Codes of Ethics that provide guidelines for our professional duty of care. Yet these do not fully address the intricate and systemic nature of our duty of care, and few coaches are adequately trained to navigate the complexity.

 

 

This issue of Coaching Research in Practice explores recent research on the topic. It explains the triangular, hierarchical levels of duty of care that can arise in coaching, how duty of care thereby extends beyond the client and how coaching practitioners can equip themselves accordingly.
 
Read full article here: https://reciprocoach.com/coaching-research#!#187

 

Written by Kerryn Griffiths, PhD, PCC and Global ReciproCoach Coordinator

 

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