Coaching Presence & Relationship
This fundamental attitude requires coaches to view clients as naturally creative, resourceful, and whole, completely free of judgment.
What is unconditional positive regard?
This framework uses the OARS core communication skills to systematically resolve a client’s ambivalence about lifestyle shifts.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
According to the NBHWC Code of Ethics, this is the legal and professional boundary a coach must strictly maintain regarding a client's private health data.
What is client confidentiality (HIPPA compliance)?
According to standard evidence-based guidelines, adults should aim for this minimum amount of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise per week.
What is 150 minutes?
A coach asks, "What are the advantages of keeping things exactly as they are right now?" This specific question is designed to explore this side of a client's internal conflict.
What is the status quo (or sustain talk)?
When a coach catches themselves thinking about what tool or question to use next instead of focusing on the client's current sentence, they are failing to maintain this specific presence competency.
What is active listening?
A client says, "I know I need to lower my blood pressure, and I've been researching low-sodium recipes to start next month." They are in this Transtheoretical Stage of Change.
What is the Preparation stage?
A coach who creates a promotional flyer claiming their coaching program is "guaranteed to reverse Type 2 diabetes in 30 days" is violating this ethical principle regarding professional representation.
What is making false, misleading, or unrealistic claims?
This cluster of conditions—including hypertension, high fasting blood sugar, abdominal obesity, and abnormal cholesterol—massively spikes cardiovascular risk.
What is metabolic syndrome?
The "S" and the "M" in a SMART goal ensure that a client knows exactly what they are doing and how they will track their progress.
What are Specific and Measurable?
The pivotal segment within a coaching session where a client explores an emotional breakthrough, a shift in perspective, or deep self-awareness.
What is a generative moment?
A client says, "I joined this running group because I wanted to feel a sense of belonging and make friends who also value fitness." This satisfies this specific psychological need within Self-Determination Theory.
What is Relatedness?
When a coach clearly explains the coaching process, fees, cancellation policies, and the limits of confidentiality before the first official session, they are obtaining this.
What is informed consent?
A reading of 132/84 mmHg falls into this official clinical blood pressure classification category.
What is Stage 1 Hypertension?
A client says: "I didn't go to the gym at all this week. I am an absolute failure." The coach responds: "You didn't make it to the gym this week, and you care deeply about being consistent with your health." This specific strategy is called...
What is reframing?
When a client is completely silent for 15 seconds after a question, this is the most effective presence strategy for the coach.
What is holding the silence/pregnant pause?
According to Social Cognitive Theory, observing a peer successfully manage their diabetes increases a client's belief in their own capability, known as this term.
What is self-efficacy?
A client reveals severe, active symptoms of a clinical eating disorder during a session. This is the immediate ethical path for the coach.
What is referring the client to a licensed mental health professional or specialist?
A fasting plasma glucose level of 115 mg/dL indicates this specific metabolic state.
What is prediabetes?
When a client scores themselves as a "6" on a confidence scale of 0–10, the coach asks, "Why a 6 and not a 4?" This strategic follow-up question is designed to elicit this type of motivating talk.
What is change talk?
In an initial session, a client lists ten massive lifestyle overhauls they want to achieve simultaneously. The coach's primary presence objective is this.
What is helping the client narrow the focus?
In the Health Belief Model, a doctor's warning, a family illness, or a sudden physical symptom that finally jolts a person into taking health action is called this.
What is a cue to action?
According to the NBHWC Code of Ethics, if you become aware that a fellow certified coach is engaging in clear financial fraud or exploiting a client, you have a professional obligation to take this action.
What is reporting the ethical violation to the NBHWC (or appropriate governing body)?
This lifestyle disorder, increasingly highlighted on the board exam, involves chronic cognitive decline and is heavily influenced by systemic vascular inflammation, poor sleep, and metabolic dysfunction.
What is Alzheimer's Disease (or vascular dementia)?
When a client is stuck in strong "sustain talk," a coach utilizes this specific type of reflection to highlight both sides of their internal conflict simultaneously.
What is a double-sided reflection?