{"id":3879,"date":"2013-03-15T06:03:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T06:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centerforcoachingcertification.com\/coachingblog\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2022-09-17T17:17:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T17:17:23","slug":"coaching-self-regulation-or-government-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/coaching-self-regulation-or-government-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaching: Self-regulation or Government Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coaching is growing and expanding rapidly and is here to stay.\u00a0 As a profession or an industry, coaching has grown and garnered increasing levels of attention.\u00a0 In keeping with a multitude of professions, coaching is now at a point where it will successfully self-regulate or, in the United States at least and potentially in other countries, government will step in and regulate it.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons government is or may become involved include cases wherein a coach is sued for practicing therapy, state agencies exploring whether coaching fits under mental health, coaches who are untrained or whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/training.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">training<\/a> failed to include or adequately address ethics, government tradition, and the consideration of necessity to protect clients.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Coaching Federation<\/a> is the leader in coaching and a gold standard for coaches and coach training.\u00a0 ICF is at the forefront for self-regulation of coaching.\u00a0 To this end, the ICF approves coach training programs, publishes the <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/credentials-and-standards\/core-competencies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Core Competencies<\/a> for coaches, publishes and promotes a Code of Ethics, and has membership requirements that include 60 hours of training, agreeing and being accountable to the Code of Ethics, and continuing education.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not coaching is regulated, having a <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/ethics\/code-of-ethics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Code of Ethics<\/a> makes sense.\u00a0 It supports professionalism and credibility for coaching and is foundational to building trust in a coaching relationship.\u00a0 As coaches, the more we discuss and promote the ICF and the Code of Ethics, the more we educate unaware coaches and clients alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coaching is growing and expanding rapidly and is here to stay.\u00a0 As a profession or an industry, coaching has grown and garnered increasing levels of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,40],"tags":[70,69,77,48,45,50,75,54,86,81,49,80,88,115,87],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-achieve-and-sustain-excellence","tag-business-development","tag-client","tag-coach","tag-coaches","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-agreement","tag-coaching-business","tag-coaching-certification","tag-coaching-success","tag-code-of-ethics","tag-core-competency","tag-effective-coaching","tag-icf-approved-coach-training","tag-professional-coach","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10754,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions\/10754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}