by James Gavin, Madeleine Mcbrearty
Lifestyles have changed dramatically over the past quarter century.
Along with these changes come exciting opportunities, including new
career paths in the professional domain of health and wellness coaching.
Centered on an evidence-based process for guiding change, Lifestyle Wellness Coaching, Third Edition With Web Resource, offers
a systematic approach to helping clients achieve enduring changes in
their personal health and wellness behaviors through a supportive and
forward-moving coaching relationship.
Lifestyle Wellness Coaching
has been thoroughly revised and updated to keep pace with the rapidly
evolving field of wellness coaching. It is complemented by discussions,
case studies, reflective opportunities, and practical aids and engages
readers through multiple approaches to learning:
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The reader is encouraged to gauge comprehension and application of the
content by reflecting on personal experiences within the context of
coaching.
• Sample dialogues offer real-world examples of coaching situations and strategies.
• The International Coach Federation’s 11 core competencies are
thoroughly examined to prepare readers for certification in the
profession of coaching.
• A new web resource houses easy-to-use forms, plans, and assessments that professionals can use immediately with clients.
Lifestyle Wellness Coaching
examines real coaching conversations to assess key considerations, such
as the types of questions to ask, how to provide feedback effectively,
and how to facilitate action planning. The text presents communication
strategies to motivate, guide, inform, and support clients’ processes
toward personal change with a holistic approach. It addresses boundaries
of care and advice appropriate to coaching relationships. Other issues
explored include developing a trusting relationship, creating goals that
are aligned with coaching processes, unblocking clients’ energy and
discovering resources for change, and generating forward movement
through the skillful use of the International Coach Federation’s 11 core
competencies.
Lifestyle Wellness Coaching
introduces readers to models that clearly identify clients’ progress
through the stages of change. First, the text explores the popular
transtheoretical model (TTM) of health-related behavior change and its
delineation of six stages of clients’ readiness to change. The
discussion of TTM includes strategies appropriate to clients in various
stages of readiness to change. The text also presents the
learning-through-change model (LCM), revealing the deep layers beneath
each phase of client movement toward change. Readers are offered a map
for coaching clients toward goal achievement. The authors’ unique flow
model of coaching illustrates how professional coaches can help clients
navigate the sometimes turbulent events of a person’s life in order to
change habitual patterns of behavior.
The companion
web resource offers a complete kit of assessment tools to help
establish a strong framework for successful coaching. A welcome packet,
coaching readiness index, introductory session form, and
between-sessions questionnaire benefit both the professional and client
in laying the groundwork. Other supplemental resources, such as a social
and emotional intelligence assessment and a goal setting form, support
the journey.
Lifestyle Wellness Coaching, Third Edition, is the definitive resource for those seeking to embrace wellness coaching and propel clients to healthy, effective change.
