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

Jordan, Meg; Livingstone, John B.

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“…Broadly speaking, the role involves working with clients and helping them achieve their optimal level of mental/physical/spiritual wellness. The key principles of health coaching—though quite varied among those who practice it—can be traced back to an array of different disciplines, including behavioral counseling, integrative medicine, nursing case management, health education, and psychotherapy (Jordan & Livingstone, 2013). Moreover, the holistic bent of certain health coaches draws substantially on the premise (and promise) of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), a healthcare subfield that includes such treatments as chiropractic care, acupuncture, naturopathy, energy healing, and biofeedback (Hirschkorn, 2006).…”

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Occupational boundary play: Crafting a sense of identity legitimacy in an emerging occupation

Murphy

Kreiner

2020

J Organ Behavior

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Summary In emerging occupations, individuals are given very little prepackaged identity “content”—for example, occupational values, legitimating ideologies, clear goals, tasks, and/or routines—to help them build their individual‐level occupational identities. By contrast, individuals in well‐established occupations (e.g., professions) are given ample identity content, and prior identity research has examined identity work processes almost exclusively in the context of such occupations. Consequently, prior theory assumes that identity work is mostly a matter of tailoring prepackaged identity content to fit one's individual‐level preferences and objectives. Prior theory is therefore of limited use in emerging occupations, where the key identity problem is not one of tailoring identity content effectively but creating an identity in the first place—more specifically, an identity whose existence feels justified and valid. Thus, in this paper, we ask: how do individuals in emerging occupations construct an internal sense that “who they are” is necessary, desirable, and appropriate (i.e., legitimate) within the broader occupational landscape? On the basis of a grounded theory study of health coaches, we suggest that individuals in such circumstances can craft this sense of “identity legitimacy” via a sensemaking process we call occupational boundary play. This process consists of both “occupational boundary setting” and “occupational boundary blurring,” the former providing for individuals a sense of identity novelty and the latter providing a sense of identity familiarity. Taken together, this subjective experience of both novelty and familiarity provides for individuals the sense that “who they are” is legitimate within the broader occupational landscape.

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Occupational boundary play: Crafting a sense of identity legitimacy in an emerging occupation

Murphy

Kreiner

2020

J Organ Behavior

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“…Although many coaching techniques are drawn from a subset of the psychological literature, diagnosing or working with psychopathology is not within the scope of a health coach’s role. 57 …”

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Complementary Tools to Empower and Sustain Behavior Change

Sohl

Birdee

Elam

2016

American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine

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Improving health behaviors is fundamental to preventing and controlling chronic disease. Healthcare providers who have a patient-centered communication style and appropriate behavioral change tools can empower patients to engage in and sustain healthy behaviors. This review highlights motivational interviewing and mindfulness along with other evidence-based strategies for enhancing patient-centered communication and the behavior change process. Motivational interviewing and mindfulness are especially useful for empowering patients to set self-determined, or autonomous, goals for behavior change. This is important because autonomously motivated behavioral change is more sustainable. Additional strategies such as self-monitoring are discussed as useful for supporting the implementation and maintenance of goals. Thus, there is a need for healthcare providers to develop such tools to empower sustained behavior change. The additional support of a new role, a health coach who specializes in facilitating the process of health-related behavior change, may be required to substantially impact public health.

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“…Created in 196 BC in Egypt, it provided the first clue to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs in 1799 when it was discovered. 1 …”

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Healing Circles: An Ethnographic Study of the Interactions among Health and Healing Practitioners from Multiple Disciplines

Jordan

2014

Glob Adv Health Med

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

Cited by 6 publications

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Occupational boundary play: Crafting a sense of identity legitimacy in an emerging occupation

Occupational boundary play: Crafting a sense of identity legitimacy in an emerging occupation

Complementary Tools to Empower and Sustain Behavior Change

Healing Circles: An Ethnographic Study of the Interactions among Health and Healing Practitioners from Multiple Disciplines

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