Telephone-Based Coaching

Orienting Clients to Telephone Coaching in Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Considerable attention in the literature has been devoted to individual therapy and group skills training in dialectical behavior therapy. However, there is a relative dearth of information on telephone coaching in DBT. While several authors have addressed important issues in DBT, including studies on efficacy and therapeutic considerations, what is glaringly absent from the literature is a bas...

Telephone coaching of carers: comparison with collaborative care skills workshop

Caring for an individual with an eating disorder is associated with significant burden. Treasure and associates’ Collaborative Care Skills Workshops reduce carer burden and distress through altering maladaptive expressed emotion communication patterns and teaching basic motivational interviewing skills which assist in boosting readiness to change in their loved one. However, due to time or dist...

Telephone-based health coaching for chronically ill patients: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND The rising prevalence of chronic conditions constitutes a major burden for patients and healthcare systems and is predicted to increase in the upcoming decades. Improving the self-management skills of patients is a strategy to steer against this burden. This could lead to better outcomes and lower healthcare costs. Health coaching is one method for enhancing the self-management of pa...

Coaching Science Inquiry: Validating a Strengths- Based Approach to Coaching

The cost-effectiveness of hospital-based telephone coaching for people with type 2 diabetes: a 10 year modelling analysis

BACKGROUND Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is a burdensome condition for individuals to live with and an increasingly costly condition for health services to treat. Cost-effective treatment strategies are required to delay the onset and slow the progression of diabetes related complications. The Diabetes Telephone Coaching Study (DTCS) demonstrated that telephone coaching is an intervention that may imp...