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Therapist as life coach: Transforming your practice

P Williams, D Davis WW Norton & Company 2002

What is health coaching anyway?: Standards needed to enable rigorous research: comment on “evaluation of a behavior support intervention for patients with poorly controlled diabetes”

R Wolever, D Eisenberg Archives of Internal Medicine 2011

The handbook of coaching

F Hudson Jossey-Bass 1999

Client-centered therapy: Its current practice, implications and theory

CR Rogers Houghton Mifflin 1951

Health coaching and genomics—potential avenues to elicit behavior change in those at risk for chronic disease: protocol for personalized medicine effectiveness study in air force primary care

AA Vorderstrasse, G Ginsburg, WE Kraus, MCJ Maldonado, RQ Wo... Global Advances in Health and Medicine 2013

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and coronary heart disease (CHD) are prevalent chronic diseases from which military personnel are not exempt. While many genetic markers for these diseases have been identified, the clinical utility of genetic risk testing for multifactorial diseases such as these has not been established. The need for a behavioral i...

Integrative health coaching for patients with type 2 diabetes a randomized clinical trial

R Wolever, M Dreusicke, J Fikkan, T Hawkins, S Yeung, J Wake... The Diabetes Educator 2010

Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of integrative health (IH) coaching on psychosocial factors, behavior change, and glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes. Methods Fifty-six patients with type 2 diabetes were randomized to either 6 months of IH coaching or usual care (control group). Coachin...

Personalized health planning with integrative health coaching to reduce obesity risk among women gaining excess weight during pregnancy

N Yang, S Wroth, C Parham, M Strait, LA Simmons Global Advances in Health and Medicine 2013

Health coaching is an emerging behavioral intervention to improve outcomes in chronic disease management and prevention; however, no studies have investigated its utility in postpartum women who have gained excess weight during pregnancy. A 32-year-old primigravida woman who was overweight at conception and gained 23 lbs more than Institu...

Integrative health coaching: an organizational case study

RQ Wolever, KL Caldwell, JP Wakefield, K Little, J Gresko, A... EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing 2011

Objective The aim of this study was to describe integrative health (IH) coaching as developed in three different interventions offered through a major medical center, as a step toward further defining the field of health coaching. Study Design An organizational case study was conducted with document analysis and interviews. Settin...

Health coaching: innovative education and clinical programs emerging

M Kreitzer, V Sierpina, K Lawson Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing 2008

Content on integrative healthcare and complementary and alternative medicine is being taught in hundreds of educational programs across the country. Nursing, medical, osteopathic, chiropractic, acupuncture, naturopathic, and other programs are finding creative and innovative ways to include these approaches in new models of education and ...

Identity and Legitimacy in the Emerging Profession Of Health Coaching

CB Murphy Murphy, C.B. 2015

Integrative health coaching and motivational interviewing: synergistic approaches to behavior change in healthcare

LA Simmons, RQ Wolever Global Advances in Health and Medicine 2013

As rates of preventable chronic diseases and associated costs continue to rise, there has been increasing focus on strategies to support behavior change in healthcare. Health coaching and motivational interviewing are synergistic but distinct approaches that can be effectively employed to achieve this end. However, there is some confusion...

A systematic review of the literature on health and wellness coaching: defining a key behavioral intervention in healthcare

RQ Wolever, LA Simmons, GA Sforzo, D Dill, M Kaye, E Bechard... Global Advances in Health and Medicine 2013

Primary Objective: Review the operational definitions of health and wellness coaching as published in the peer-reviewed medical literature. Background: As global rates of preventable chronic diseases have reached epidemic proportions, there has been an increased focus on strategies to improve health behaviors and associated outcomes....

"I tried so many diets, now I want to do it differently"—A single case study on coaching for weight loss

R Stelter International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and W... 2015

In this single case study, the author presented an in-depth description and analysis of a coaching intervention with focus on weight loss, conducted over 10 sessions in the course of 17 months. The client was a well-educated woman in her late 30s, who had tried many different forms of dieting over the years*with little and no lasting effe...

Transformative change to ‘a new me’: a qualitative study of clients’ lived experience with integrative health coaching

K Goble, S Knight, S Burke, L Carawan, R Wolever Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2017

The purpose of this study was to describe the lived experiences of adult clients who sought Integrative Health Coaching (IHC) to address a chronic health condition. Moustakas’ phenomenological approach was applied to engage nine participants in recorded in-depth interviews and photo-elicitation interviews. Analysis revealed the essence of...