Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Lifestyle medicine is a relatively new approach to managing lifestyle-related disease. Health coaching is an integral part of lifestyle medicine that can be used to facilitate behaviour change in key lifestyle areas. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this article is to familiarise general practitioners with the emerging discipline of health coaching and show its effectiveness in primary care. DISCUSSION: The recognition that the traditional healthcare approach is not fully effective at supporting health behaviour change in an era of chronic diseases has led to the emergence and growth of a new approach to the prevention and treatment of lifestyle-related diseases - the practice of health coaching.
Authors: Shivaun Conn, Sharon Curtain
Language: English
Topic: Coaching Methods and Impact
Subfield: Applied Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2978360338