To provide more specialized care, health coaching emphasizes a patient’s perspective of their health situation. Active listening is crucial in getting the patient’s side of the story.
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…
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…
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 Active Listening. Most people have a tendency to listen to others while focusing…
What is active listening? “Active listening is a structured form of listening and responding that focuses the attention on the speaker” (Huffman, 2009, p. 492). How detrimental can it be to not listen actively? Try listening to someone or something…
As discussed in our most recent blog, change is difficult for people, no matter the reason for the change. We identified several reasons patients resist change, the “Yeah-But Dance” between provider and resistant patient, and the need for a 50/50…