Coaching vs Psychotherapy in Health and Wellness: Overlap, Dissimilarities, and the Potential for Collaboration

Jordan, Meg; Livingstone, John B.

doi:10.7453/gahmj.2013.036

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“…The NCCHWC Board then reviewed the job task list for accuracy and completeness, and identified an additional task that captured the more generative, and creative aspects of coaching that had proved difficult to make concrete during the JTA process: Task - 9: “inviting a client to explore patterns, perspectives, and beliefs that might be limiting health behavior change.” The JTA SME panel unanimously approved the amendment. Lengthy discussions of this task led to careful choice of wording to clarify that coaches invite exploration of perspectives and beliefs rather than analyze their roots or origins, as such analysis falls outside the training and scope of HW coaches [ 22 ]. See Table 2 for the final task list and domains, along with their validations weightings (described below).…”

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Advancing a new evidence-based professional in health care: job task analysis for health and wellness coaches

Wolever

Jordan

Lawson

et al. 2016

BMC Health Serv Res

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BackgroundThe pressing need to manage burgeoning chronic disease has led to the emergence of job roles such as health and wellness coaches (HWCs). As use of this title has increased dramatically, so has the need to ensure consistency, quality and safety for health and wellness coaching (HWC) provided in both practice and research. Clear and uniform role definitions and competencies are required to ensure appropriate scope of practice, to allow best practices to emerge, and to support the implementation of well-designed, large scale studies to accumulate a rigorous evidence base. Since the nascent field is replete with heterogeneity in terms of role delineations and competencies, a collaborative volunteer non-profit organization, the National Consortium for Credentialing Health and Wellness Coaches (NCCHWC), has been built over the past six years to support professionalization of the field.MethodsIn 2014, a professionally led Job Task Analysis (JTA) was conducted with 15 carefully selected subject matter experts (SMEs) with diverse education and professional backgrounds who were practicing HWC in a wide variety of settings. After establishing a thorough list of specific tasks employed during HWC, the expert panel discussed the knowledge and skills necessary to competently perform the tasks. Subsequently, a large validation survey assessed the relative importance and frequency of each identified job task in conducting HWC.ResultsThe JTA identified 21 job tasks as essential to HWC. In the subsequent validation survey, 4026 practicing health and wellness coaches were invited to rate each of the 21 job tasks in terms of their importance and frequency. A response rate of 25.6 % provided a diverse sample (n = 1031) in terms of background, and represented a wide variety of training programs from academia, industry, the private sector and associations. Per best practices, the subset of practicing HWCs (n = 885) provided importance and frequency ratings to be used to calculate task and domain weights that can serve as a foundation for a NCCHWC national certification examination.ConclusionsThis JTA provides a significant step forward in the building of a clear and consistent definition of HWC that will allow for uniform practice standards and enable more stringent methodology to evaluate this promising approach within evidence-based medicine.

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Advancing a new evidence-based professional in health care: job task analysis for health and wellness coaches

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Lawson

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BMC Health Serv Res

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“…Health coaches and psychotherapists draw on similar frameworks and models which include self-determination theory, transtheoretical model, social cognitive theory, self-efficacy model, and nonviolent communication techniques. Additionally, health coaches pull from the latest findings in neuroscience, mindfulness, and the mind/body connection (Jordan & Livingstone, 2013).…”

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Health Coaching Case Report: Optimizing Employee Health and Wellbeing in Organizations

Yocum¹,

Lawson²

2019

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Health and wellbeing of employees has a direct correlation to organizational performance. It is essential that organizations and successful leaders prioritize the health and wellbeing of all employees -from the C-suite to entry level positions. As rates of stress, chronic illness, and unhealthy lifestyle choices continue to increase, it is imperative that organizations discover strategies that cultivate employee wellbeing. Employees with high wellbeing are more engaged, productive, and energized and directly affect a company's bottom line; it is in the best interest of employers to invest in human capital and wellbeing of employees. Health and wellness coaching demonstrates encouraging potential as a catalyst to optimize employee wellbeing. Rooted in science-based research with the foundation in relationships, communication, and connection, health coaches partner with employees as they build selfawareness around a holistic view of health. As employees increase self-awareness, they recognize the importance of managing stress and self-care, connect to their vision and values, take active steps towards change, and address barriers and obstacles. With these strategies, individuals build resilience as they gain energy, empowerment, and work towards positive growth. This paper outlines the challenges that leaders and employees are facing, describes health and wellness coaching, and provides a group coaching case study example that demonstrates how health and wellness coaching can foster employee wellbeing. This case study is important as it supports evidence that health coaching shows promise as a strategy to optimize employee health and wellbeing.

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“…The key to the intervention was the use of a protocol from VIT ( Downing, 2005 ). VIT can be employed either as psychotherapy, or, in a more limited manner, as mental health coaching ( Tiffany, 1982 ; Jordan and Livingstone, 2013 ; Barnett et al, 2014 ; Whittaker et al, 2014 ). In this study a simplified, manualized coaching form was used.…”

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Pediatricians, Well-Baby Visits, and Video Intervention Therapy: Feasibility of a Video-Feedback Infant Mental Health Support Intervention in a Pediatric Primary Health Care Setting

Facchini¹,

Martin

Downing

2016

Front. Psychol.

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This case series study evaluated the feasibility and acceptability of a behavioral/cognitive psychological intervention in a pediatric primary health care setting during standard well-baby visits. The aim of the intervention was to support caregivers’ sensitivity and mentalization in order to promote infant mental health (IMH). Four neonates from birth to 8 months were consecutively enrolled to test a short video-feedback intervention (Primary Care – Video Intervention Therapy, an adaptation of George Downing’s Video Intervention Therapy to primary care) conducted by a pediatrician. The 5 min interaction recording and the video-feedback session were performed during the same well-baby visit and in the same pediatrician’s office where the physical examination was conducted. During the study period, six video-feedback sessions were performed for each baby at different ages (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 months). A series of different interactional situations were filmed and discussed: touch, cry, affective matching, descriptive language, feeding, separation and autonomy. The intervention was easily accepted and much appreciated by all four families enrolled. This study aimed to answer a dilemma which pediatric providers generally face: if the provider wishes to respond not only to physical but also IMH issues, how on a practical level can this be done? This case series study indicates that Primary Care – Video Intervention Therapy can be a promising new tool for such a purpose.

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Coaching vs Psychotherapy in Health and Wellness: Overlap, Dissimilarities, and the Potential for Collaboration

Cited by 26 publications

References 10 publications

Advancing a new evidence-based professional in health care: job task analysis for health and wellness coaches

Advancing a new evidence-based professional in health care: job task analysis for health and wellness coaches

Health Coaching Case Report: Optimizing Employee Health and Wellbeing in Organizations

Pediatricians, Well-Baby Visits, and Video Intervention Therapy: Feasibility of a Video-Feedback Infant Mental Health Support Intervention in a Pediatric Primary Health Care Setting

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