Health & Wellness Coaching Skills I

XMED-522 - Health & Wellness Coaching Skills I

Course Description

Health Coaching Skills I offers an overview of health coaching and its relevance in today’s healthcare infrastructure. Content, discussion, and application include key theoretical models, coaching processes, and practitioner methods used to accomplish effective health behavior change. Additional topics include self-awareness and self-reflection as learners. Class activities include small group discussion and triad coaching circles skills practice.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

Explain why health coaching is relevant in today’s healthcare infrastructure
Develop a personalized definition of health coaching
Differentiate between health coaching and counseling or other medical care approaches
Evaluate successful elements in promoting health behavior change
Examine models used in understanding and successfully promoting health behavior change
Demonstrate health coaching skills in triad coaching circles
Develop and conduct health coaching contracting sessions with a client
Describe and demonstrate client discovery sessions

Enroll Now- Spring 2025 Non-Credit

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