Health Coaching Certification Sections 4-6 Flashcards
What are the 3 styles of learning?
Auditory, kinesthetic, visual
True or False: Some research shows that visual images are advantageous to all learners
True
An adult learns best through a blend of what?
hearing, touching, seeing
One quick way of identifying how your client learns best is to do what?
ask how they assemble an item with multiple parts. Pictures (visual), have someone read the directions (auditory) figure it out as go along is kinesthetic
An appropriate example of engaging a client in Teach-Back is:
Describe how you check your blood sugar
What are the advantages of Teach back?
immediate clarification, improved adherence to treatment plans, enhanced client accountability, better recall, ID barriers to communication, supports learning process
Are yes/no questions a benefit of Teach-back?
No
Is the Teach Back method difficult for the patient to understand?
No
What is the Butterworth Survey?
Study done to determine reasons why people don’t change
What are the reasons for not changing according to the Butterworth Survey?
don’t think it’s important, values don’t support it, they don’t think they can, they haven’t worked through ambivalence, they aren’t ready, they don’t have a plan, they don’t have support
What reason is NOT given according to the Butterworth Survey
They don’t have knowledge to change
When a client is not interested in changing, he/she is in what stage?
Pre-contemplation
A client who is regularly checking blood sugars is in what stage?
Action
To determine how ready an individual is for change it is important to do what?
Identify what stage of change the person is in
A person who says “I’ve talked with my spouse about meal planning” is at what stage of change?
Preperation/Determination
RESPECT is an acronym for what?
consider ethnicity and culture in plans for change
“I might try not adding salt for 30 days” is in what phase?
Contemplation
Being culturally competent as a health coach indicates that you are what?
Non-judgmental of a client’s beliefs, values and culture
The most important aspect of assisting a client who has experienced a relapse is to tell them what?
That it is common
A well defined goal statement includes
specific actions, measurable outcome, time of completion
What are the goal setting steps?
1) Establish desired end result
2) identify specific actions
3) write goal statement
4) prioritize each step
5) set reasonable deadline
What does SMART stand for?
Specific, Measurable, Agreed Upon, Realistic, Time-Sensitive
What does specifying goal details do?
Enhance success
What is a goal?
What the client hopes to attain
Your client comes to you for help with weight loss. You ask how many pounds they want to loose. What part of SMART is that?
Measurement
You’re guiding a client to set goals for quitting smoking. You ask “By what date would you like to quit?” What part of SMART is this?
timeframe
Guiding the agenda implies that the health coach
helps the client safely prioritize topics
