Health coaching

Question 1

What is health coaching?

Answer 1

Health coaching is helping people gain and use the knowledge, skills and confidence to become active participants in their care so that they can reach their self-identified health and well being goals.

Question 2

Health coaching has been associated with what things?

Answer 2

• Higher practitioner satisfaction
• Higher patient satisfaction
• Increased patient motivation to self manage and adopt health behaviours
• Reduction of waste - less unneccesary tests
• Positive impact on the culture of services and health inequalities

Question 3

What is the difference between problem-focus approaches and solution-focus approaches?

Answer 3

Problem focus approach

• understand and diagnose a problem
• know what causes the problem
• use the information to address and fix problem

Solution-focus approach

• recognise what solution or outcome the person would find desirable or is needed
• find skills which will help them to work towards the solution or agreed outcome
• take into account their skills and explore solutions and agree on small actions

Question 4

What is the OSKAR framework?

Answer 4

Outcome - the difference the coachee would like to achieve and how they will achieve their aim (future perfect)
Scaling - Finding out the person’s perceived progress (number from 1 to 10 on how far they are at achieving their goal)
Know-how and resources - finding out what is working for them and getting them to that point on the scale
Affirmation and action - affirm the positive qualities you’ve heard in the conversation or observed. All conversation should end with an action
Review - find out what’s working and build on that