This Coaching Health Behavior Change eCourse focuses on five central themes important to healthcare practitioners who are interested in engaging in wellness coaching with their patients. These are the science base of health and wellness coaching, organizing your mind, developing relationships, the importance of self-motivation and self-confidence, and the steps involved in the health and wellness coaching process. Processes for improving practice outcomes for each of these will be provided.
It cites the theoretical and evidence base for effective health and wellness coaching that promotes health behavior change and improves health outcomes. Strategies for organizing one’s mind for coaching are discussed and compared with the cognitive agility of multitasking and the main brain states used by healthcare practitioners.
This eCourse describes how to create relationships with patients to foster their personal growth and how to apply effective coaching techniques for relationship-building. The role of self-motivation and self-confidence in effective coaching for health behavior change, the main stages of the coaching process and the coaching questions for each stage are discussed.
- The Science Behind Health and Wellness Coaching | Margaret Moore, MBA
- Organize Your Mind for Health and Wellness Coaching | Margaret Moore, MBA
- Developing Growth and Promoting Relationships through Health and Wellness Coaching | Margaret Moore, MBA
- Importance of Self-Motivation and Self Confidence in Health and Wellness Coaching | Margaret Moore, MBA
- Health and Wellness Coaching Process I | Margaret Moore, MBA
- Health and Wellness Coaching Process II | Margaret Moore, MBA
This Coaching Health Behavior Change unit focuses on five central themes important to healthcare practitioners who are interested in engaging in wellness coaching with their patients. These are the science base of health and wellness coaching, organizing your mind, developing relationships, the importance of self-motivation and self-confidence, and the steps involved in the health and wellness coaching process. Processes for improving practice outcomes for each of these will be provided. It cites the theoretical and evidence base for effective health and wellness coaching that promotes health behavior change and improves health outcomes. Strategies for organizing one’s mind for coaching are discussed and compared with the cognitive agility of multitasking and the main brain states used by healthcare practitioners.
This unit describes how to create relationships with patients to foster their personal growth and how to apply effective coaching techniques for relationship-building. The role of self-motivation and self-confidence in effective coaching for health behavior change, the main stages of the coaching process and the coaching questions for each stage are discussed
Providers should learn to consistently apply lifestyle medicine interventions to secure improved health outcomes for patients with lifestyle related diseases.
After viewing the module unit presentations, learners should be able to:
The Science Behind Health and Wellness Coaching
- Describe the theoretical base for health and wellness coaching competencies
- Describe the evidence base for effective coaching that promotes health behavior change and improves health outcomes
Organize Your Mind for Health and Wellness Coaching
- Describe the main tools for organizing one’s mind
- Describe the main brain states used by primary care physicians
- Compare cognitive agility to multitasking
Developing Growth and Promoting Relationships through Health and Wellness Coaching
- Describe how to create relationships with patients which foster their personal growth
- Apply effective coaching techniques for relationship-building
Importance of Self-Motivation and Self Confidence in Health and Wellness Coaching
- Describe the role of self-motivation and self-confidence in effective coaching for health behavior change
Health and Wellness Coaching Process I
- Describe the main stages of the vision or foundational stage of the coaching process.
- Learn coaching questions for each stage
Health and Wellness Coaching Process II
- Describe the main stages of the coaching process
- Learn coaching questions for each stage
Margaret Moore, aka Coach Meg, MBA, NBC-HWC
Founder/CEO, WellCoaches Corporation
Margaret Moore, MBA, is an executive coach and founder and CEO of Wellcoaches Corporation, a coaching school for health professionals, which has trained more than 13,000 coaches in 50 countries since 2000. Prior to Wellcoaches, Margaret was an executive in the biotechnology industry in the US, UK, Canada, France for 17 years, including serving as CEO and COO of two biotech companies.
Margaret is co-founder (2009) and chair of the Institute of Coaching at McLean, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, and is co-director of the Coaching in Leadership & Healthcare conference offered by Harvard Medical School since 2008.
In 2010 Margaret co-founded the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching, now a nonprofit subsidiary of the National Board of Medical Examiners, establishing standards and reimbursement for the coaching workforce in healthcare.
Moore teaches transformational leadership at Harvard Medical School’s Office of Global Education, and coaching psychology at Harvard Extension School. She is co-author of 20 peer-reviewed articles and 7 book chapters on coaching, the peer-reviewed Coaching Psychology Manual published by Wolters Kluwer, and Harvard Health Books Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life and Organize Your Emotions, Optimize Your Life.
The ACPM designates this enduring material for 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. ACPM is not accredited to offer credit to non-physicians. To determine if activities designated for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ are acceptable for your licensing or certification needs, please contact your credentialing body directly.
Please note: Continuing Education (CE) for allied health professionals is ONLY available for the full 32-hour program and is NOT available for individual modules.
This curriculum is applicable for Maintenance of Certification Credit (MOC) by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. Additional medical specialty boards are reviewing this new program for MOC credit.
For physicians to receive AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for this activity, they must achieve a score of 80% or higher on the post-test and complete the evaluation. Completing the post-test and evaluation will provide ABPM MOC credits as well.
It is the policy of the Rush University Office of Interprofessional continuing Education to ensure that its CE activities are independent, free of commercial bias and beyond the control of persons or organizations with an economic interest in influencing the content of CE. Everyone who is in a position to control the content of an educational activity must disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest (including but not limited to pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers, or other corporations whose products or services are related to the subject matter of the presentation topic) within the preceding 12 months.
Unapproved Uses of Drugs/Devices: In accordance with requirements of the FDA, the audience is advised that information presented in this continuing medical education activity may contain references to unlabeled or unapproved uses of drugs or devices. Please refer to the FDA approved package insert for each drug/device for full prescribing/utilization information.
The course directors, planners and faculty of this activity have stated they have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
The information contained in this activity represents the views of those who created it and does not necessarily represent the official view or recommendations of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and American College of Preventive Medicine.
A key concept of the Lifestyle Medicine Core Competencies Program is that it is designed and developed for a broad spectrum of healthcare providers emphasizing the need for a team approach to practicing lifestyle medicine. With this in mind, practitioners from the following professions can benefit from the curriculum:
- Preventive Medicine Physicians
- Primary Care Physicians
- Physician Specialists
- Psychiatrists/Psychologists
- Physician Assistants / Nurse Practitioners
- Registered Nurses
- Physical / Occupation Therapists
- Mental Health Counselors
- Dietitians/ Nutritionists
- Health Educators
- Residents / Medical Students