Health and Wellbeing coaching puts you at the centre of your health and wellbeing.
With the traditional approach to healthcare, the clinician is viewed as the expert and the approach is directive, so the client or patient is given advice to follow. With health and wellbeing coaching the client is viewed as the expert in their own health and the approach is directive and also indirective. The coach’s style is adapted to individual requirements. The individual is viewed to have the potential within, with the focus on increasing awareness to affect change including enhanced wellbeing and behaviour change, new habit formation and accountability. The coach’s role is to facilitate this change using motivational interviewing and psychological tools to uncover any challenges to achieving change.
In essence, the traditional approach is a culture of telling people what they need to do. The health coaching approach is a culture of encouraging individuals to be resourceful. The bullets below highlights some differences.
“People do not argue with their own ideas”.
Traditional approach.
A culture of telling people what they need to do
- Practitioner viewed as the expert
- Decisions often made by practitioner
- Person believes that it is the practitioner’s role to fix them
- Goals are often suggested by the practitioner
- Focus on extrinsic motivators
- Psychological factors in change unlikely to be addressed
Health coaching approach.
A culture to encouraging people to be resourceful
- Person is viewed as the expert in their own life
- Decisions made in partnership
- Person contributes to generating their own solutions
- Decisions made in partnership
- Person believes that they have an active role in their health
- Person is supported to define & measure their own goals
- Focus on intrinsic and extrinsic motivators
- Psychological factors in change are addressed
Source: Andrew McDowell, TPC Health
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