National Society of Health Coaches
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Faith and Health Behavior
This time of year is special to millions of people throughout the world, as they draw nearer to their faith-based beliefs. Research indicates that religious faith has many positive effects on health behavior even though it’s uncommon to find clinicians and practitioners ever tapping into this hidden pot of patient gold! Saad and deMedeiros say[...]
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Benefits of Motivational Interviewing
Are Certain Clinician Personalities Attracted to the Use of MI? As I worked with these patients, I began to notice something special taking place in the relationships I had with each of them and their families. The patients were very engaged and open to share their thoughts about their care and what they wanted[...]
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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[...]
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Health Coach vs Wellness Coaching
The National Society of Health Coaches, led by clinicians, is taking the lead in differentiating coaching roles and clarifying definitions in the interest of public safety, consumer awareness, and legalities.
National Society of Health Coaches
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Health Coaching
The word mishmash has been used as far back as the 1500s. Webster uses synonyms to define the word mishmash as hodgepodge, jumbled; and goes on to further describe mishmash with numerous other synonyms including mixed bag and alphabet soup
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