Wellness Assessment & Goal Setting Flashcards
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What is the primary purpose of a comprehensive wellness assessment in health coaching?
Answer: To establish a baseline understanding of the client's physical, mental, and lifestyle health status
A comprehensive wellness assessment establishes a baseline understanding of the client's overall health status across physical, mental, and lifestyle dimensions, informing personalized coaching strategies.
Which goal-setting framework is most commonly used in health coaching?
Answer: SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound)
SMART goals provide a structured framework that makes health objectives specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound, increasing the likelihood of client success.
How should a CHC handle a client who sets unrealistic health goals?
Answer: Collaboratively explore the goals, help the client understand potential barriers, and guide them toward achievable milestones
Collaboratively exploring goals helps clients understand potential barriers while guiding them toward achievable milestones, maintaining motivation and building self-efficacy.
What validated tool is commonly used to assess a client's readiness to change health behaviors?
Answer: Stages of Change (Transtheoretical Model)
The Stages of Change model assesses a client's readiness to change by identifying whether they are in precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, or maintenance stages.
Why is it important for health coaches to distinguish between outcome goals and process goals?
Answer: Process goals focus on controllable behaviors while outcome goals focus on results, and both are needed for sustainable change
Process goals focus on daily controllable behaviors while outcome goals focus on desired results. Both are needed because process goals build the habits that lead to outcomes.
What role does health risk assessment play in the coaching relationship?
Answer: It helps identify priority areas for coaching intervention and flags potential risks requiring medical referral
Health risk assessments help identify priority coaching areas and flag risks that may require medical referral, ensuring coaches work within their scope while addressing the most impactful areas.