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HEALTH AND WELLNESS COACHING FINAL
EXAM NEWEST 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE 300 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+
1. Define Coaching- - ANSWER- ...The intricate dance to assist
clients to self actualize, fulfill goals successfully, resulting in a
higher level of living life in a state of wellbeing, physically and
mentally, based in nonjudgment.
2. Describe how Wellness, health and fitness coaches differ
from one another. - ANSWER- ...Wellness Coaches--they
encompass health, fitness and mental health professionals, who
coach on an evidence basis of wellness (all professionals.)
Health Coaches—They are Credentialed Health Care
Professionals, nurses, NPs, PAs, Physicians who coach.Fitness
Coaches—They are cardiac Rehab, PTs, Group Ex, CYTs who
use coaching to enhance wellness.The difference between them
is that Wellness Coaches encompass all coaches, health coaches
are licensed Medical or Psychological professionals. Fitness
Coaches are Cardiac Rehab, PTs, and group exercise or Yoga
teachers who specialize in their fields.
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Wellness Coaches--they encompass health, fitness and mental
health professionals, who coach on an evidence basis of
wellness (all professionals.) Health Coaches—They are
Credentialed Health Care Professionals, nurses, NPs, PAs,
Physicians who coach. -
3. Distinguish between Wellness Coaching and other forms of
coaching. - ANSWER-
Corporate coaches are used to improve work place performance
of execs and upper management. Life Coaches help people
through a transition such as career, retirement, divorce, life
quality improvement, time management, finding passion or
purpose. Wellness specifically focuses on wellbeing—
improvement of health by examining personal goals, values and
behaviors to make changes in fitness, nutrition, weight, health
risks, stress management, smoking cessation, etc, towards life
satisfaction.
4. Why are professional coaches needed in areas of physical and
mental wellness? - ANSWER-
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Too many people have weight issues, don't exercise or eat well.
They enable people to be done with quick fixes, overcome
challenges, and to master health and wellbeing and make
changes that last.
5. Distinguish between the coach approach and the expert
approach to learning and growth. - ANSWER-
Coaching is drawing out knowledge the client already has, to
bring about change. They work in tandem with a client, at the
client's level of self efficacy to make changes. The client is in
control; they find their own answers; coaches rarely offer
advice. Experts teach, analyze, problems, offer advice, prescribe
solutions recommend goals, develop strategies, teach new skills,
and with this lets subtly let clients off the hook of responsibility
-"you aren't in charge -
6. Distinguish between coaching and therapy. - ANSWER-
Therapy treats diagnosable disorders. (DSM-IV). Coaching does
not diagnose, prescribe, and coaches do not work with people
suffering from clinical dysfunction. Coaches work with people
who are already doing things well who want to improve. -
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7. Identify and explain 3 key components of coaching used by
professional and wellness coaches. - ANSWER-
A. Values—Coaches believe clients are whole, creative,
resourceful, resilient. Clients figure out their best paths; coaches
help chip away at the outside to show the pure beauty within.
Coaches value the process more than their own expert
knowledge. - ANSWER-
B. Relational skill—Coaches bring a beginner's mind, engage,
arouse, energize, and challenge clients to do the work needed to
create desired change. The qualities of good relational skills are;
listening deeply, inquiry, (simple reflection) but also
mindfulness, empathy, authenticity, affirmation, courage, zest,
playfulness, and warmth. - ANSWER-
C. Coaching process—There are many. The most important are
the Trans-theoretical model of change, and to approach clients
where they are, not where we as coaches want them to be. The
stages of change are pre-contemplation, contemplation,
preparation, action, and maintenance. Other systems are
Appreciative Inquiry, Non-violent communication, motivational
interviewing, social cognitive theory, ultimately dancing with
the client in relational flow. Both, but mostly the client, are
highly engaged, awake, challenged, and stretched. - ANSWER-
