Symposium: Coaching Psychology in Education: Enhancing Students’ Learning, Creativity and Well-Being. Symposium Chair: Dr Qing Wang
All recordings are on this symposium webpage below.
Introduction
Educational psychology and coaching psychology share common themes, purposes and approaches to support individuals’ learning, performance and growth. Educational psychology can be defined as ‘a designed facilitative approach that focuses on the enhancement of learning and learning how to learn in formal education, using approaches and models based on established psychological theories of coaching’. In this symposium of Coaching Psychology in Education, researchers from the Educational Coaching Research Group at School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University are drawing from the latest empirical studies and diverse perspectives across the field and hoping to offer a unique opportunity to engage in meaningful discussions, share innovative ideas, and collaborate on advancing our understanding of coaching psychology in education.
The Symposium is chaired by Dr Qing Wang, an international expert on Coaching Psychology in Education.
The symposium is pre-recorded. The first three papers can be viewed on Thursday 10th October and the remaining videos are Premiered from 08.10 BST onwards on Friday 11th October, 2024. All the recording are below.
Symposium Programme Overview
- The effects of group-based positive psychology coaching on college students’ creativity and school well-being
Speaker: Jinxin Li - A comparative analysis of coaching psychology and psychological counseling: A cognitive-behavioral perspective in practice
Speaker: Yueyou Huo - Group-based coaching for developing creative self-concept: A randomized controlled trial
Speaker: Yutong Wang - The importance of creative agency: An RCT study comparing coaching programmes of creative role identity and creative thinking
Speaker: Qinyue Zhu - Peer coaching facilitates a more proactive career development during school-to-work transition
Speaker: Ying Zhang - Coaching psychology for creative coping: The interaction of personality, stressful situations and social support
Speaker: Haixin Lu - The impact of mindful communication coaching on cooperative orientation: An RCT study Speaker: Yuanyuan Zhang
Symposium Coaching Psychology in Education
The first session is The effects of group-based positive psychology coaching on college students’ creativity and school well-being presented by Jingxin Li.
Jingxin is a postgraduate student studying educational psychology in our research group. Her research interests include students’ creativity, well-being and coaching psychology. In her session, she has develops a coaching program that integrates positive psychology coaching and expressive arts therapy to enhance students’ creativity and school well-being. Her research provides new evidence that coaching psychology can support holistic student development in educational settings.
The second session is A Comparative Analysis of Coaching Psychology and Counselling: Practical Applications from a Cognitive Behavioural Perspective presented by Yueyou Huo.
Yueyou is a postgraduate student studying applied psychology. Her research interests include the effectiveness of psychological intervention approaches in practical applications. In this session, she was looking at the similarities and differences between psychological counselling and coaching psychology in practice, using CBT and CBC as examples and conducting an empirical investigation. Her research can provide new perspectives for further development in both fields of counseling and coaching psychology.
The third presentation is Group-based coaching for developing creative self-concept: A randomized controlled trial by Yutong Wang.
Yutong is a postgraduate student studying applied psychology in our group and her research interests include creative self-concept and coaching psychology. In this session, she develops a group-based coaching program using the narrative-collaborative coaching framework to boost creative self-concept. Her study also compares this program with another similar model that integrates mindfulness, demonstrating that both can foster the development of students’ creative self-concept and creative performance.
The fourth session is The importance of creative agency: An RCT study comparing coaching program of creative role identity and creative thinking, delivered by Qinyue Zhu. Premiered at 08.15 BST on 11th October, 2024.
Qinyue is a postgraduate student studying educational psychology in East China Normal University. Her research interests include creativity, creative motivation and coaching psychology. In her presentation, she develops creative role identity coaching by integrating positive psychology coaching, character strengths-based coaching and narrative coaching; and compares the effects of creative role identity coaching and creative thinking training on creative performance and creative motivation.
The fifth session is Peer coaching facilitates a more proactive career development during school-to-work transition by Ying Zhang. Premiered at 08.45 BST on 11th October, 2024.
Ying obtained her master’s degree of Applied Psychology from East China Normal University in 2021 and now she is the founder of a life coaching company in South China. She focuses her research and practice on coaching psychology in the field of health and education. In this session, she examines the mechanism of how protean career orientation influences proactive career behaviors and develops a semi-structured coaching program to develop protean career orientation effectively.
The sixth presentation is Coaching psychology for creative coping: The interaction of personality, stressful situations and social support by Haixin Lu. Premiered at 09.15 BST on 11th October, 2024.
Haixin is a 2nd year postgraduate student in our research group and her research interests include creative coping and coaching psychology. In her session, she designs a coaching psychology programme on social support and creative coping in an attempt to improve students’ coping skills with stressful events in their lives and work.
The last session is The impact of mindful communication coaching on cooperative orientation: An RCT study by Yuanyuan Zhang. Premiered at 09.30 BST on 11th October, 2024.
Yuanyuan Zhang obtained her Master’s degree in Applied Psychology at the East China Normal University in 2021 and now a doctoral student in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at University of Connecticut. She is interested in studying mindfulness, health and well-being in the family context, as well as the application of mindfulness coaching in various domains. Her session examines the impact of mindful communication coaching on individuals’ cooperative orientation by a randomized controlled trial.