Health Coaching

Health Coaching

Differing roles of health, wellness, and life coaches continue to abound from company to company…program to program… A mishmash of sorts? How can we gain consensus about these roles? ….How did we get here? …Early adopters of “worksite health promotion” in the ’50s ushered in new approaches and new terms…“coaching” began to evolve… How Did We Get[...]

Health Coach vs Wellness Coaching

What is Health Coaching? HEALTH COACHING is the use of evidence-based skillful conversation, clinical strategies, and interventions to actively and safely engage patients/families/clients in health behavior change to better self-manage their health, health risk(s), and acute or chronic health conditions resulting in optimal wellness and recovery, improved health outcomes, lowered health risk and decreased healthcare costs[...]

Health Coach Communication

Last week, we looked at the tendencies of five U.S. age-specific generations that have been defined. This week, we’ve added preferences and some characteristics related to the healthcare of these generational groups, hoping this will help clinician health coaches enhance their engagement with patients/families and achieve better outcomes as a result! The GREAT or SILENT[...]

Health Benefits of Walking

Why didn’t we set out on foot immediately? Were we too tired at the moment? Did we not have on the right shoes? Or did it simply not come to mind? Great for Overall Health The truth is Americans aren’t used to walking as a means of getting about, which also is a clue to[...]

Health and Nutrition

Not too long ago, Mary Maloy, Registered Dietitian, NSHC Certified Health Coach, and member of NSHC’s Professional Advisory Board, assembled an amazing cookbook of her special recipes that she developed especially for her local New Haven Fire Department (NHFD).  Mary knows the impact health and nutrition play in the lives of these firefighters Mary appears in this photo above[...]

Generational Health Coaching

If you’re only considering the clinician’s point of reference and the patient’s diagnosis, probably not much. However, if you as a clinician are looking to make the patient-provider relationship a more meaningful and effective one for both parties, it’s within the clinician’s purview to consider another aspect of the patient and family to make this[...]

Food for Health and Behavior

‘Tis the season for bringing home fresh fruit and vegetables from local farmers’ markets or harvesting those from your own garden! And what flavor there is from these wonderful gems, not to mention the exceptional nutritional value… While canning and freezing during the harvest is dawn-to-dusk work until all is finished, the pay-off of fresh[...]

Tips to Actively Engage Patients/Clients

Tips to Actively Engage Patients!  The Center for Advancing Health (2010) states that “patient engagement is not synonymous with “compliance”, which signifies a directive that is responded to; rather than a person’s involvement in the process whereby information and professional advice is in concert with one’s own needs, abilities, and preferences.While the healthcare provider may[...]

Evidence-Based Health Coaching

Instead of telling the patient what to do as many clinicians still do, the conversational skills of the clinician health coach helps the patient to identify any ambivalence to behavior change that exists. This conversation will include many of the following attributes as well as many others: •    What is most important to the patient[...]