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Health Behavior Change
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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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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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.
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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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