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Title: From surviving to thriving: An integrated approach to health and wellbeing coaching.
Authors: Anstiss, Tim (AUTHOR)
Source: Coaching Psychologist. Apr2025, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p66-83. 18p.
Subjects: Motivational interviewing, Well-being, Health coaches, Health status indicators, Personal coaching, Human behavior models
Abstract: The number of people living with poor physical health and poor psychological wellbeing continues to rise, causing immense pain and suffering for individuals and families, growing pressure on health and care systems, and demands on the taxpayer. Both poor physical health and poor psychological wellbeing are multi-determined, and whilst many causes are hard or impossible for the individual to change (e.g. genetics, prior exposures, some aspects of their current environment) some determinants can be changed by the individual to increase their chances of improved health, wellbeing and quality of life in the future. Both physical health and psychological wellbeing may be viewed as existing along a continuum, and evidence-based conversational approaches have been developed to improve both -- health coaching and wellbeing coaching. Since physical health and psychological wellbeing are intimately connected, and since people come as wholes not just bodies and minds, it will be helpful to find a way to integrate health and wellbeing coaching in a unified approach. Motivational Interviewing can form a good platform from which coaching psychologists can integrate and offer different evidence-based coaching approaches such as cognitive behavioural, mindfulness, acceptance and commitment based, compassion focussed, positive psychology based and others. The reasons for choosing motivational interviewing as a base include the fact this is it best considered a style rather than a technique, it helps to engage and activate the less ready to change, it seems to augment outcomes when combined with other approaches and it already integrates relational factors and coaching strategies. This paper describes one model for integrating different coaching approaches and outlines a seven-stage process-based approach for integrated health and wellbeing coaching, as well as exploring how the stages of change model can help the coaching psychologist best tailor the approach to the current and future health and wellbeing needs of the person they are coaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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  Data: The number of people living with poor physical health and poor psychological wellbeing continues to rise, causing immense pain and suffering for individuals and families, growing pressure on health and care systems, and demands on the taxpayer. Both poor physical health and poor psychological wellbeing are multi-determined, and whilst many causes are hard or impossible for the individual to change (e.g. genetics, prior exposures, some aspects of their current environment) some determinants can be changed by the individual to increase their chances of improved health, wellbeing and quality of life in the future. Both physical health and psychological wellbeing may be viewed as existing along a continuum, and evidence-based conversational approaches have been developed to improve both -- health coaching and wellbeing coaching. Since physical health and psychological wellbeing are intimately connected, and since people come as wholes not just bodies and minds, it will be helpful to find a way to integrate health and wellbeing coaching in a unified approach. Motivational Interviewing can form a good platform from which coaching psychologists can integrate and offer different evidence-based coaching approaches such as cognitive behavioural, mindfulness, acceptance and commitment based, compassion focussed, positive psychology based and others. The reasons for choosing motivational interviewing as a base include the fact this is it best considered a style rather than a technique, it helps to engage and activate the less ready to change, it seems to augment outcomes when combined with other approaches and it already integrates relational factors and coaching strategies. This paper describes one model for integrating different coaching approaches and outlines a seven-stage process-based approach for integrated health and wellbeing coaching, as well as exploring how the stages of change model can help the coaching psychologist best tailor the approach to the current and future health and wellbeing needs of the person they are coaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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