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…
Category: Behavior Change
Patient behavior change is at the core of positive outcomes in health coaching. Conversational techniques can be crucial in encouraging a patient’s positive behavioral changes.
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…
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…
Evidence-based Health Coaching helps patients adopt necessary behavior change through methods that differ from traditional practitioner-patient relationships. One of the approaches used in Evidence-based Health Coaching is eliciting change talk. Rollnick & Miller (2008) discovered a correlation between how likely a…
Last week’s blog focused on the benefits of mindful eating, but it may have left you wondering how you eat ‘mindfully’! Well, here are some tips: Minimize distractions and focus on what you are doing Express “mindful attitudes” such as…
Mindful Eating, or the purposeful attention you give to your hunger and satiety cues, is an effective tool for weight management. How else can it benefit you? Take a look! No more rigid dieting rules! No more calorie counting! No…
Indecisiveness, or ambivalence, is something you need to be able to recognize in your patients. The difficult part comes in knowing the difference between ambivalence and defiance, resistance, or non-compliance. When a patient has conflicting feelings about his or her…
Prochaska and DiClemente’s Six Stages of Change can help you identify, based on cues, what stage your patient is in and, as a health coach, you can then gain insight into how to guide your patient through the remaining stages…
Change is difficult for people, no matter the reason for needing to change. The idea of changing one’s behavior can cause a wide variety of emotions ranging from paralyzing fear to volatile anger. But, when it comes to healthcare, change…
Recognize that the patient brings half of the treatment success to the relationship. This relationship (short-term or long-term) should be implemented as a 50/50 partnership. The provider is the expert on medical assessment & treatment The patient/family is the expert…