In-Depth Health Coach Training

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TrestleTree's Personal Health Coaches, drawn from several health care professions (pharmacists, nurses, registered dieticians, Certified Diabetic Educators), stand alone in their ability to combine disease state 'domain expertise' with unparalleled training in proven behavior change strategies. TrestleTree Coaches are trained to incorporate their specific disease-state knowledge with a distinctive way of talking, relating to, and motivating their participants. The result of this combination is the unique capacity to monitor and drive medication adoption and persistency, adherence to physicians' treatment plans, and sustainable life-altering health behavior change.

TrestleTree's success is derived from a rigorous Health Coach training model that instills a new strategy for delivering disease management coaching into an intensive system of supervision and mentoring. TrestleTree's Personal Health Coaches receive:

• Four weeks of full-time training before they ever speak with a participant.
• 60 hours of classroom instruction
• 60 hours of observation and role-play
• 40 hours of system development and integration with coaching skills

At the conclusion of the initial training period, intensive training continues with:

• Live supervision of coaching by a Ph.D.-level Clinical Psychologist
• Mentoring by seasoned Personal Health Coaches
• Clinical case consultations and case reviews
• Ongoing evaluation of progress and feedback

TrestleTree training infuses effective behavior change strategies into relationships between Coaches and participants managing chronic illnesses or exhibiting high-risk health behaviors. This training focuses on:

• Intensive listening and health communication techniques
• Research on behavior change and treatment adherence
• Chronic disease state and critical health behavior management
• James Prochaska's Transtheoretical Model
• Diagnosis of stage of change and motivation level
• Promoting movement across stages of change
• Linking stage of change to behavior change strategies
• Measurement of movement in behavior change

Most traditional health care models are tailored to the motivated patient and offer only advice to the unmotivated. TrestleTree Coaches are trained to match participants where they are at in terms of motivation and behavior; promoting movement and change through a confluence of relational strategies/skills with restrained domain expertise. As shared by Clint Gabbard, Ph.D., co-founder of TrestleTree, "Traditional disease management targets only a small portion of the patient population, while [TrestleTree] Personal Health Coaching goes the next step. It uses proven behavior change principles to help a broad range of people take personal control over their health lives…" Building on the Transtheoretical Model as a foundation, TrestleTree trains Coaches to develop and utilize a relationship of influence to help participants make plans and move toward sustainable health behavior change.