Health and Wellness Coaching

Synopsis

Coaching is a growth-promoting relationship that elicits autonomous motivation, increases the capacity to change, and facilitates a change process through visioning, goal setting, and accountability, which at its best leads to sustainable change for the good. Wellness coaching is a process of applying these principles, skills, and knowledge to enable individuals to choose healthy lifestyle alternatives and make positive changes to achieve holistic health. This course focuses on helping individuals to be engaged to take measures to prevent the onset of chronic medical conditions or to optimise their control to prevent complications, if already diagnosed with chronic medical conditions.

Level: 4
Credit Units: 5
Presentation Pattern: EVERY JULY

Topics

Being a good health coach
Health promotion and health literacy
Motivational interviewing
Health coaching skills
Applying behaviour change models
The role of self-efficacy in health behaviours
Self-control for behaviour change
Setting goals and action plans
Thriving as a health coach
Coaching in difficult situations
Facilitating sustainable lifestyle change
Designing wellness programmes

Learning Outcome

Evaluate the role of health and wellness coaches
Assess personality styles and character strengths and how this impacts the coaching relationship
Examine the role of motivational interviewing in health coaching
Apply the principles and theories of health promotion and health behaviour change
Formulate strategies to engage clients with low health literacy
Demonstrate core relationship-based coaching skills
Design strategies to work with clients in different stages of change

Part-time Programmes

CET/ACE students should have knowledge in Psychology or Healthcare in order to take this course.

Singapore University of Social Sciences

Health and Wellness Coaching