Almost half of all Americans, over one hundred and third million people, suffer from chronic conditions (Schneider, O’Donnell and Dean, 2009). In order to help keep delivery of evidence-based care as uniform as possible, practice guidelines and standards of care…
Now that we’ve thoroughly discussed the overall process of coaching a patient through behavior change, let’s talk specifics. Overall wellness is extremely important, but there are several specific areas of wellness that require special coaching approaches or considerations. They are:…
We began looking at some open-ended questions in yesterday’s blog, and today we take that a step further by looking at the concept of Motivational Interviewing. “The use of MI includes setting a stage of support and empathy while implementing…
Now that we have begun the facilitating behavior change discussion, let’s talk about how you can guide your patient through the change process using goal setting techniques. When patients are facing the need for behavior change, it can be a…
So far we have talked about several different concepts and begun to develop skills that will help you communicate as effectively as possible with your patients. We have learned to recognize their communication and learning styles and we have learned…
Yesterday we learned more about communicating with our patients using Active Listening. But, even if we use good communication techniques and we listen well, if we aren’t instructing the way the patient prefers to learn, then will we be successful? To…
Yesterday we began to dig into the concepts within Evidence-Based Health Coaching by talking about Communication Styles. To continue building on that, we are going to take a look at Active Listening, today! While it is certainly important to understand…
Yesterday we talked about Evidence-Based Health Coaching overall, as a way of introducing this Back to School series! Today, we are digging into the good stuff and talking about Communication Styles. Communication is the key to so many things in…
Well, it’s that time of year again! The kids are heading back to school for another full year of learning, making friends, and growing! To celebrate, we are doing a Back to School series for the next 10 days that…
Evidence-based Health Coaching helps patients adopt necessary behavior change through methods that differ from traditional practitioner-patient relationships. The final approach used in Evidence-based Health Coaching is recognizing readiness for change. Fortunately, for this approach, you have a tool! See Figure…