This session is focused on the role of health and wellness coaching for empowering blood cancer survivors to master the multiple biopsychosocial self-management tasks of survivorship to optimize functioning in daily life and quality of life. An overview of self-management definitions and core skills and how health and wellness coaching skills and techniques are essential for effective self-management and health behaviour change. Real-case scenarios are used to demonstrate the skills, techniques applied in health and wellness coaching towards the achievement of improved health outcomes and the optimization of wellness and thriving.
At the end of this session, you will be able to:
-Describe health and wellness coaching specific to cancer populations.
-Understand the competencies required for effective health and wellness coaching.
-Discuss the benefits and how health and wellness coaching is applied to enable survivors’ self-management and thriving.
