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Healthcare Coaching Articles
Health Behavior Change
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[...]
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Featured Articles
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[...]
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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[...]
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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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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[...]
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Evidence Based Health Coaching
Cognitive Reframing
Exercise Physiologist Stops Selling Exercise! …and Her Clients Reap the Rewards! There’s a great poem written by Joseph Malins called The Fence or The Ambulance, circa 1895. For us today, we can build a fence at the edge of the cliff to prevent those from falling (prevention) or put an ambulance at the bottom of[...]
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Evidence Based Health Coaching
Clinician Empathy in Patient Care
Empathy in Health Coaching With all these positive effects of empathy for both patient and clinician, it might be surprising that some research demonstrates that clinicians believe they show more empathy than patients say they do. There are several possible reasons for this: task-oriented work assignments, rushing from task to task, patient workloads, emotional carry-over[...]
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