Week 7 Study Guide Flashcards
What is the coach’s role in providing support?
Don’t assume
Be aware of culture and diversity
Advocate for client’s health
Support client in overcoming assumptions
What are social and environmental determinants of health?
Genetics
Access to healthcare
Education and socioeconomics
Lifestyle and culture
How can coaches help clients identify social determinants of health?
Help client find emotional support
Promote self-efficacy
Check-in regarding their involvement of others
Explore fears/hesitations
Use tools to gauge client’s life satisfaction:
The Connectedness Scale
The Wheel of Satisfaction with Connections
Provide resources or recommendations for external support, if the client asks or affirms they are open to receiving them
What is a basic human need and how does it impact it mentally and physically?
A sense of love and belonging is a basic human need (and one of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs)
Support is a basic human need that affects health, longevity, and sustainable behavior change Loneliness impacts health.
Mental
| Depression and anxiety
| Reduced self-care
| Increase of risky behaviors (drinking, smoking)
Physical
| Increased stress markers (cortisol) | Obesity
| Cardiovascular disease markers
What is the coach’s role?
Coach role: Empower clients in seeking support
Seek supporting relationships and environment/resources to help achieve goals Explore fears or hesitations in seeking support.
Empower clients for long term success through using their support systems, asking them to share what that might look like for them.
Strategize ideas for building more community into your client’s life.
From the start, clients build sources of support into wellness action plans. 5
Reflect with clients regarding how they can build and maintain support systems beyond coaching.
What is the client’s role?
Clients may need to
Identify forms of positive social support
Learn how social support impacts health
Create a visual map of what their support system currently looks like and a vision for what it
could look like in the future.
Learn about their cultural identity
Explore cultural identify and connect it to values
Explore expression of culture
