Description

his program provides the skills, knowledge and expertise needed to become skilled health and wellness coaches who help clients clarify health and wellness goals through introspection, leverage their strengths, address challenges in behavior change, implement and sustain life-changing behaviors, and manage both setbacks and progress. The program develops an understanding of behavior change theories and principles, excellence in core coaching competencies, and the skills necessary to help clients adopt individually designed attitudes and lifestyle changes most conducive to optimal health and wellness. Students build a broad view of health and wellness that incorporates both conventional measures of health that focus on prevention of illness and disease and promotion of healthy lifestyles, as well as additional measures of health found in complementary and alternative health practices from a variety of wisdom traditions.

Course Curriculum

The program consists of 30 credits of required coursework in the following areas: 15 credit hours of core health and wellness coaching courses and Practical Skills Assessment. 15 credit hours of advanced courses including: advanced coaching skills, group coaching, inter-professionalism, cultural competence, research literacy in integrative health and evidence-informed practices, practice management coursework that provides students with the skills to build and sustain their own practice or business in coaching, and a final project course that integrates learning throughout the students’ academic journey. The program consists of the following required courses: APP606 Becoming a Healing Presence (3 cr) APP700 Mindfulness, Meditation, and Health (3 cr) COA605 Foundations of Healthy Lifestyles (1.5 cr) COA610 Fundamentals of Health and Wellness Coaching (3 cr) COA616 Theories and Principles of Behavior Change (3 cr) COA620 Applied Healing Strategies (3 cr) COA665 Advanced Coaching: Groups, Populations, and Settings (3 cr) COA670 Advanced Topics in Health and Wellness Coaching (3 cr) COA705 Professional Development for Health and Wellness Coaches (1 cr) COAPSA Practical Skills Assessment (0 cr) IHM650 Practice Management in Coaching (2 cr) ISCI631 Introduction to Complementary and Integrative Health (1.5 cr) MUIH550 Academic Research and Scholarship (0 cr) IHED625 Research Methods in Health Education: Quantitative and Qualitative (3 cr) OR RSCH601 Research Literacy in Integrative Health (3 cr)

Trainer Expertise

COACHING WELLNESS 134

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