Shivaun Conn1, Sharon Curtain2. 1. BSc (Nutrition) (Hons), Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD), Accredited Nutritionist (AN), Health Coach, Director, Discovery Health Coaching, NSW; Vice President, Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine, Vic. shivaun@discoveryhealthcoaching.com. 2. BSc, MDiet, Dietitian, Nutritionist, Health Coach, Director, Campaign Healthy, Vic; author and co-creator, Diploma of Health Coaching, Vic.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Lifestyle medicine is a relatively new approach to managing lifestyle-related disease. Health coaching is an integral part of lifestyle medicine that can be used to facilitate behaviour change in key lifestyle areas. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this article is to familiarise general practitioners with the emerging discipline of health coaching and show its effectiveness in primary care. DISCUSSION: The recognition that the traditional healthcare approach is not fully effective at supporting health behaviour change in an era of chronic diseases has led to the emergence and growth of a new approach to the prevention and treatment of lifestyle-related diseases - the practice of health coaching.
BACKGROUND: Lifestyle medicine is a relatively new approach to managing lifestyle-related disease. Health coaching is an integral part of lifestyle medicine that can be used to facilitate behaviour change in key lifestyle areas. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this article is to familiarise general practitioners with the emerging discipline of health coaching and show its effectiveness in primary care. DISCUSSION: The recognition that the traditional healthcare approach is not fully effective at supporting health behaviour change in an era of chronic diseases has led to the emergence and growth of a new approach to the prevention and treatment of lifestyle-related diseases - the practice of health coaching.
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