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Professional Diploma in Health Coaching

Course Synopsis

This course is designed for those who wish to embark upon a career in health coaching, either within the private or public sectors. In addition it is for those with a keen interest in health promotion through seminar or conference routes, and individuals who wish to enhance skills or job roles that they already have. The course is broken down into ten modules which integrate to give a holistic approach to health coaching.

The course materials will cover core skills, techniques, methods and delivery, together with client assessment and programme design. Each module will be contextualized with health care concepts, relevant legislation and scope of allied health care professional roles.

Module titles

• Module 1: What is health?
• Module 2: Health promotion in context with health coaching
• Module 3: Health and disease in context with health coaching
• Module 4: The nature and scope of health coaching
• Module 5: Communication and health coaching
• Module 6: Social issues and health coaching
• Module 7: Coaching in professional healthcare situations
• Module 8: Health coaching in public sector and private practice
• Module 9: Ethical considerations, legislation and responsibilities
• Module 10: Consolidation, programme design and strategies

Module content

Module 1: What is health?

This looks at the definitions of health from various perspectives. It will also examine personal and societal expectations of health and what this means in the context of wellbeing and health coaching. In addition this module will touch upon growth, development and the psychological issues of health relevant to the coaching situation.

Module 2: Health promotion in context with health coaching

This module examines the concepts of health promotion in the United Kingdom, including the legislation, strategies and frameworks that exist providing the parameters of care and service delivery. The material will place the health coach within these contexts and look at their role, scope and client base.

Module 3: Health and disease in context with health coaching

In order to successfully ‘coach’ health, we need to have a basic understanding of the concepts of health and disease, cause and effect and prevention strategies. This module examines these concepts in relation to health coaching.

Module 4: The nature and scope of health coaching

This module examines the scope of health coaching and outlines the core skills, approaches, models and techniques within this remit.

Module 5: Communication and health coaching

Communication is a key element of the coaching process. Here we look at communication skills in detail, how we communicate, and contextualize these within the coaching framework.

Module 6: Social issues and health coaching

Health is a social issue as much as a personal one. In this module we look at social issues such as lifestyle, relationships, gender, cultural issues and demographics relevant to the coaching situation.

Module 7: Coaching in professional healthcare situations

This module looks at the health coach within a healthcare setting; this maybe within a hospital, care home, or within a management or human resource team concerned with professional development.

Module 8: Health coaching in public sector and private practice

Health coaching in the public sector will require knowledge of public health issues, legislation and service provisions that are currently in place; health coaching in the private sector has different knowledge requirements. These will be discussed within this module.

Module 9: Ethical considerations, legislation and responsibilities

This module deals with issues such as confidentiality, data protection, professional codes of conduct; legislation relevant to health coaching and the legal and professional responsibilities of the health coach.

Module 10: Consolidation, programme design and strategies

This module will present a brief overview of the course and give some examples of programme design. There will also be some templates included which can be adapted for personal use.

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