#726
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:43:27 -0500
From: James Teufel <teufel@SIU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Wellness Coaching as big business - how should health education respond?
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Hello,
To add some humor to the wellness coach discussion, watch this clip on life
coaching by Demetri Martin.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=60592
James
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#727
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:59:29 EDT
From: Sue Baldwin <Suesball@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: HEDIR-L Digest - 16 Oct 2007 to 17 Oct 2007 (#2007-222)
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HELP!
I've been informed by a newly appointed department chair from another
academic area (dietetics and nutrition) that our dean believes our student health
center staff that for safety reasons our department of health will no longer
be teaching CPR/AED/First Aid as a course in our core curriculum. Was
wondering if any similar trends were occurring on other campuses - takeover by
student health center of this course topic area? Any advice or thoughts on how to
fight this would be appreciated as we are facing a move from our current
adequate facilities to facilities that are seriously lacking and this rationale
has been utilized to justify the move away from our CPR/First Aid lab space.
I feel exhausted that the dean doesn't understand who we are and what we do
(the dean is from Speech, Language & Pathology background) after educating
and reeducating using CHES, SABPAC program approval guidelines, etc. I was
informed yesterday at 5 pm via email that the Dean would like to meet to
finalize the move and conduct a walk through of the current facilities (we are to
provide justification) and the area to relocate us (trailer offices, no
classrooms, no fitness lab, no CPR/First Aid lab, no set Health classroom space, no
fitness center/pool/indoor/outdoor track access, no student computer lab, and
no office suite. If you have any ideas on how to address these two issues I
would greatly appreciate it prior to Monday.
Thank you in advance
Sue
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#728
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:17:15 -0400
From: Jim at CPP <jvgrizzell@CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Wellness Coaching as big business - how should healtheducation respond?
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Hello Health Education Colleagues,
Here are two sets of ideas related to health/wellness coaching and training/qualifications: an NEJM article on Oct 14 and Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS) description of us (I would like to see a discussion on the BLS info).
Check "employer as health coach" http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/357/15/1465 It costs $10 unless you can get it through an account.
Also, several companies offer health advising and health coaching. I'm sure there are more than these.
Health Fitness Corporation www.hfit.com
Cooper Institute www.cooperaerobics.com/CooperCoach/
I think BLS may have some pretty good descriptions of us and training health educators should have (plus salaries from May 2006). HEs were highlight in a recent Monthly Labor review Editor's Desk article and Summer issue of Occupational Outlook Quarterly.
Bureau of Labor Statistics. Occupational employment and wages, may 2006: 21-1091 health educators.
Accessed on Oct 18, 2007 at http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes211091.htm
Bureau of Labor Statistics. Health educators. Monthly labor review, editor’s desk.
Accessed on Oct 18, 2007 at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2007/oct/wk1/art01.htm
Bureau of Labor Statistics. Health educators: working for wellness. Occupational outlook quarterly, Summer 2007, 51:2. Accessed on Oct 18, 2007 at www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2007/summer/art03.htm
PDF file at www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2007/summer/art03.pdf
I'm anxious to hear your takes on the BLS information.
Jim
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#729
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:50:37 -0700
From: Lindsay Reynolds Armbruster <lereyn2004@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: health education professionals
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In my undergrad preparation at SUNY Brockport (graduated 2004), each student was required to complete an internship at both a community health agency and a public school during 1st semester of senior year. Upon completion of those internships, we each chose school or community based health education as our area of focus for the 2nd semester. Those who chose school participated in student teaching, those who chose community completed a 2nd internship at a community/workplace agency. In my graduate work though in Public Health, the focus was entirely on public health with hardly a mention of school health education -- a problem from my perspective, as school health education is truly the only arena in which children and adolescents are captive audiences by requirement.
I think it is imperative that health educators -- no matter their location -- are trained in and practice scientific-based, proven-effective techniques. In my experience with many school health educators health education theory is unknown. However, the public health educators I have contact with are well informed about theory. A partnership needs to be made in order to serve our vulnerable populations.
Lindsay Armbruster
MS/HS Health Teacher
New York
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#729
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:04:04 -0700
From: Doug Wendy Mclaughlin <mclaughlin101@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Wellness Coaching as big business - how should health education respond?
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Dear Colleagues,
Just thought I'd chime in on the subject of
health/wellness coaching. I became a health coach 3.5
years ago and work for a company called Ceridian
(mostly known for employee assistance programs). With
an MS in Health Education and CHES certified, I
entered the coaching field unsure of what my role
would be. Initially I mostly did health education
since I had little coaching experience. I completed
several hours of continued education with Totally
Coached, Inc. and then received the Wellcoach
certification through Wellcoach, Inc. with Margaret
Moore.
I thoroughly enjoy this field! As a coach we focus
solely on being a catalyst in the behavior change
process by helping clients discover what their ideal
state of wellness would be and assisting them in
developing action steps to reach their goals--and
"coaching" when they get stuck along the way. Coaching
is about listening until we don't exist and reflecting
back what we are hearing so they can continue to
create their reality. The highlight in a coaching
session is when a client has an "aha moment" when they
discover something about themselves or the situation
that they never new existed until it came out of their
mouth; it is in that moment when they move forward in
an area where they were previously "stuck." Many time
this leads to sustained behavior change.
I always explain that coaches work in the gap between
what we know (intellectually) and what we do
(behaviorally). I do provide health education from
time to time, but it is mostly when a client requests
it or it appears that their low level of self efficacy
is due to a deficit of information. However, this is
the exception rather than the rule. If we provide
information we always ask for permission to share it
with them. The client is 100% in control; they tell us
what matters to them rather than what we think
"should" matter to them.
I see health education and health coaching as being
two distinct fields--each being a nice compliment to
the other.