Travis Kemp

• Doctor of Philosophy
• University of South Australia

Industrial-Organisational Psychology is a specialised discipline within Psychology that was pioneered in the United States of America in the early 1900s by Psychologists Hugo Münsterberg and Walter Dill Scott. Broadly speaking, organisational psychology is a field of research, study and practice that applies the scientific methods and principles of...

This chapter discusses the key elements and dynamics of the relationships that are formed in the coaching engagement. In contradiction to the popular coaching belief, it is the coaching relationship, rather than any specific coaching model or technique, that is the core determinant and catalyst for client change. The chapter discusses the disciplin...

This chapter seeks to deepen one’s theoretical understanding of the human relationship formed within a coaching engagement. Further, it highlights the critical importance of the inherent intimacy and complexity of this relationship and its impact on coaching clients’ ability to achieve positive and efficacious outcomes. In support of this intention...

Efforts to conceptualise and design facilitative models that support coaching practice have been prevalent in both the peer-reviewed and industry-based literature since the popularisation of coaching as a human development methodology. A myriad of models claim to provide robust and efficacious methodologies that produce effective and targeted chang...

Whilst there is growing interest within the emerging coaching psychology literature in exploring specific coaching methods and their relative efficacies, little attention has been afforded the investigation of the relationship itself that is formed between coach and client. In addition, any exploration of the personality, psychodynamic and cognitiv...

This paper presents a model for implementation of behavior therapies in adventure programs that use Group Adventure Initiative Tasks (GAITs) to promote personal development. Behavior therapies include various techniques and processes based in learning and pedagogical theory and used to promote changes in behavioral responses to environmental situat...

Many outdoor educators and adventure therapists share the belief that adventure experiences improve participant self-esteem. Recently, researchers have begun to question this widespread belief, suggesting that a mismatch between the level of physical or psychological risk and the level of client readiness may produce negative outcomes. A study of 6...

Group Adventure Initiative Tasks require the successful completion of a group task or objective and then provide debriefing and reflection on group processes and individual behaviors. A model of responsible action provides a framework for debriefing by charting behaviors and outcomes of choosing to respond to a situation as "victim" (reactive appro...