Integrative Wellness Coaching

By presenting a holistic and integrated health and wellbeing approach to personalised care through wellness coaching, this handbook provides theory, insights, best practice, case studies and CPD activities in order to deepen practitioners' knowledge and experience. Integrative wellness is about working in collaboration and is a partnership between the professional and the patient with the latter understanding that they can take as much control as is possible for their own health and wellbeing. This book helps form this collaboration by exploring the co-creation of personalised care plans, effective coaching skills and cognitive-behavioural interventions including motivational coaching for patient activation, as well as flexible ways to provide wellness coaching. Exploring how the mind-body connection can improve the patient's journey, Integrative Wellness Coaching is an invaluable guide for any healthcare practitioner who wants to embrace their patients' lifestyle choices and mindsets towards their own health.

It's finally here -- the long awaited 2021 edition of the acclaimed text How to Be a Health Coach: An Integrative Wellness Approach, Second Edition, used in over 100 schools and training programs and in several countries. Over 320 pages of updated models, guidance, theoretical frameworks, process skills and coaching tasks that are vitally important for professional health coaches. Now with a new guide sheet of healthy lifestyle information for preventing chronic disease. Presents step-by-step guidance for tackling the skills and knowledge outlined by the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC) including scope of practice, ethical standards and professional practice--lots of solid preparation for taking the National Certification exam. Features coaching templates for intake sessions, initial meetings, ongoing sessions, motivational interviewing sessions, and for closing the coaching relationship. Includes coaching agreements, several types of Wellness Wheels for your use with clients. Offers first-time, cutting-edge tips for addressing diversity, equity and inclusion for health coaches. Includes the latest information and research on the neurobiology of behavior change, stress physiology, emotional and social intelligence, Nonviolent Communication, mindfulness and dozens of holistic practices for improving self-awareness and self-efficacy. The most comprehensive coaching manual available today, now better than ever. Plus, enjoyable self-discovery tools for the coach to become the best integrative health coach possible!

Wellness coaching is an emerging and vibrant area of healthcare. It takes healing beyond the curing of symptoms and empowers clients to take their health back into their own hands. This book provides therapists with the knowledge and skills to rejuvenate their therapeutic practice by incorporating wellness coaching techniques into their range of services. Laurel Alexander redefines wellness as an integrated lifestyle and mindset process and shows that wellness coaching can be a profound and practical way to help clients make meaningful changes to their health and outlook. The book offers a wellness coaching toolbox, explaining key skills such as how to create an organic personal wellness plan, how to build client rapport and give constructive feedback, and how to apply different coaching models effectively. Practical steps and examples make it easy for any therapist or counsellor to pick up the reins of wellness coaching for themselves. Exciting new developments such as wellness diagnostic services, preventative healthcare, customised treatments and DIY healthcare are explored. With shrewd advice and useful insights, this book is an essential resource for complementary therapists and counsellors looking to update their existing practice and tap into the rapidly expanding wellness market.

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This step-by-step manual offers the essentials of health coaching methodology, along with integrative wellness principles, theoretical frameworks, evidence-based models, coaching session formats, and practice tools. Readers also learn effective mind-body techniques to become extraordinary health coaches.

Nurse Coaching: Integrative Approaches for Health and Wellbeing By Barbara Montgomery Dossey, Susan Luck, and Bonney Gulino Schaub Paperback-October 2014This is the first comprehensive Nurse Coach textbook that describes the theoretical and clinical relevance and practical application of an innovative, integrative, holistic, and integral nurse coaching model. This user-friendly book will guide your Nurse Coach practice to promote lifestyle behavioral change for health and wellbeing for both the nurse and the client/patient. It can be used in all healthcare environments and implemented in diverse settings including hospitals, communities, and private practice. In this book you will find theories and strategies to help you: Theory of Integrative Nurse Coaching; Integrative Nurse Coach Leadership Model; Integrative Nurse Coach™ Process and Competencies; coaching conversations, case studies, and coaching journeys with clients/patients; bio-psycho-social-spiritual-cultural-environment model of nurse coaching; evidenced-based coaching methodologies and practices; nutrition and environmental coaching skills; Integrative Health and Wellness Assessment™; nurse coach guidelines for practice, education, research, healthcare policy and advocacy; and integrative lifestyle resources and toolkit. This book is for all nurses and other health care providers seeking coaching knowledge and skills. For information on the Integrative Nurse Coach™ Certificate Program go to www.inursecoach.com/inccp/

Arloski blends the wisdom of the wellness field with the proven processes of the coaching profession to create an easy-to-use training tool. The result is the perfect training tool for wellness professionals of all kinds: disease management professionals, professional coaches, EAP professionals, counselors, and therapists.