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HEIDI MOLLER — KATRIN OELLERICH — DENISE HINN — SILJA KOTTE principally given. Still, 20% of the participants in the survey mentioned general doubts about psychotherapy research. By contrast, a new study shows a potential reversal of such attitudes towards psychotherapy research. Felber and Margreiter** examined the attitudes towards psychotherapy research by means of semi-structured interviews. The results showed that the participants of that sample (N=50) had a positive attitude towards psychotherapy research and saw, above all in the research, added value in relation to the effectiveness and quality assurance of psychotherapy. Furthermore, 50% of sample participants were able to name current research projects and studies. This positive trend was also reported in a study by Thurin and colleagues*. These results show that the participating psychotherapists perceived positive effects for their own clinical practice and reported no negative effects on their patients. Ihe same applies to coaching: in a survey carried out at a coaching research conference in 2010, Wegener and colleagues*® showed that the attitude of practicing coaches towards research is generally positive and that the attitude towards coaching research was rated as very/rather positive by 88% of participants. The use of coaching research was principally viewed as furthering coaching as a profession (98%), making coaching more efficient (88%) and improving the public image of coaching (86%)*'. Still, the current state of coaching research — as mentioned already — shows that many studies have only small samples and many studies are carried out on coaches who are still studying’. So there is a need for experienced practicing coaches who are willing to let others watch over their shoulder. This is the basic requirement for ecologically valid studies, without which the development of professional standards and quality assurance would be impossible. The actual motivation behind coaches deciding for or against participating in research still has not been thoroughly examined. Only when the decision 38 M.Felber - U. Margreiter, Einstellung von Psychotherapeut(inn)en zu Psychotherapieforschung, Pscyhother Forum, 15 (2007) 192-196. J.-M. Thurin - M. Thurin - N. Midgley, Does participation in research lead to changes in attitudes among clinicians? Report ona survey ofthose involved in a French practice research network, Counseling and Psychotherapy Research, 12 (2012) 187-193. R. Wegener — A. Fritze — M. Loebbert, Coaching entwickeln, Forschung und Praxis im Dialog, SpringerLink, Bücher, 2., durchgesehene Auflage, Wiesbaden, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2012. a Ibid. 12 §. Kotte — K. Oellerich — D. Schubert - H. Möller, Das ambivalente Verhältnis von Coachingforschung und -praxis: Dezentes Ignorieren, kritisches Beäugen oder kooperatives Miteinander? in A. Schreyögg — Ch. Schmidt-Lellek (eds.), Die Professionalisierung von Coaching, Ein Lesebuch für den professionellen Coach, Wiesbaden, VS Verlag, 2015, 23-45. 39 40 s 54 c
