Three Pillars of Health Coaching: Patient Activation, Motivational Interviewing and Positive Psychology provides the fundamentals of three essential tools that health coaches can use to measure and monitor activation levels, elicit behavior change, move clients along the path to self-management and have a positive impact on health outcomes and utilization.

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Each week, healthcare professionals respond to a reader's query on an industry issue. This week's experts are Darcy Hurlbert, formerly a health and wellness product specialist at Ceridian LifeWorks, and Sean Slovenski, CEO and president of Hummingbird Coaching Services.

Question: What resources and training would you recommend for teaching health coaches how to coach participants on stress management?

Response: (Darcy Hurlbert) We have a coach who we use as our internal expert. She has gone through training, such as attending different workshops and reading different books. Finding someone who has a passion for stress management has been our best resource. Also, since Ceridian has an EAP background, we are able to leverage the skills of the EAP consultants and the resources they have in dealing with day-to-day stress management issues as a resource.

(Sean Slovenski) We have our own internal experts and our health coaching product. There are five core areas we health coach people about, whether they have a diagnosis, chronic disease state or are beginner marathon runners: exercise, nutrition, weight management, stress management and smoking cessation. In each of those areas, we have an internal expert looking at the latest research and techniques from different institutions on stress management. We draw much of our research from the area of positive psychology of managing stress, and using character strengths to focus on solving problems. They are usually the ones who are pulling all the latest information together and adding new training modules or skill-builders for our staff.

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