Is Precision Coaching Psychology an emerging sub-discipline of psychology?
Stephen Palmer
Citation: Palmer, S. (2025). Is Precision Coaching Psychology an emerging sub-discipline of psychology? International Journal of Coaching Psychology, 6, 8, 1-5.
https://ijcp.nationalwellbeingservice.com/volumes/volume-6-2025/volume-6-article-8/
Processing dates: Submitted: 24 March 2024; Resubmitted: 3 September 2025; Accepted: 3 September 2025; Published: 4 September 2025
Abstract
Over the past two decades there have been advances in the fields of medicine and health. Two areas worthy of note are the emerging fields of precision medicine and precision health. In addition, Precision Psychology has been put forward as a new direction. This paper briefly looks at these areas and considers the possible development of precision coaching and precision coaching psychology and provides two possible working definitions to enable further discussion. The paper tentatively concludes that Precision Coaching Psychology may be at the cusp of becoming an emerging sub-discipline of psychology although Precision Health Coaching is likely to be developed earlier.
Keywords: Precision Coaching Psychology, Precision Coaching, coaching psychology, coaching, big data, Precision Health Coaching
Copyright: © Stephen Palmer, 2025. Published in the International Journal of Coaching Psychology by the National Wellbeing Services Ltd. This article is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Full terms of licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Biography
Prof. Stephen Palmer PhD is President and Fellow of the International Society for Coaching Psychology, and Director of the Centre for Coaching and National Academy of Coaching Psychology. He is Executive Editor of the International Journal of Coaching Psychology. He has written/edited 60 books including Solution Focused Coaching in Practice (with O’Connell and Williams, 2013), and Handbook of Coaching Psychology (with Whybrow). His university posts include being Honorary Professor of Practice at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK, and Adjunct Professor of Coaching Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark. He is Co-ordinating Director of the ISCP International Centre for Coaching Psychology Research.
Email: stephen.palmer@centreforcoaching.info
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0108-6999