1st Edition
Coaching for Person-Centered Healthcare A Solution-Focused Approach to Collaborative Care
This guide introduces a humanistic, solution-focused coaching model, using lived experience to demonstrate how profound changes in our health care experiences and system, for patients and staff, are possible; while also supporting readers to develop their own coaching skills.
Combining research, theory and practice shared through personal experience, readers are introduced to using solution-focused, dialogic tools to promote person-centered care. The first section of the book introduces the coaching model and explores its theoretical and philosophical underpinnings, drawing on theories from neuroscience, neurobiology, communication sciences, humanistic psychology and positive psychology. The second section of the book transitions from theory and research into clinical practice, making evident the broad range of health care contexts and domains in which the humanistic, solution-focused approaches are implemented as well as the profound personal and professional implications associated with their use. The third section of the book focuses on the lived experience of four people, focusing on their interactions with healthcare before and after their coaching training, emphasizing the difference a humanistic, solution-focused approach has made for them and their families.
The final section then turns to organizational change and explores how solution-focused coaching provides insights, perspectives and aspirations for system change. This engaging text is ideal reading for healthcare professionals, teachers and leaders looking to develop and improve the care they deliver, the experiences of the people they are working with, and the organizations they deliver it within.
Section One: Theory and Practice
One: Healing Healthcare: How Coaching Leads to Optimal Functioning For Clients and Staff,
Elaine Cook, PhD
Two: A Humanistic, Solution-Focused Approach to Person-Centered Care and Client-Activation
Gilbert J. Greene, PhD, LISW
Three: The Influence of a Humanistic, Solution-focused Approach on Healthcare Research
Laura R. Bowman, PhD, OT Reg. (Ont.)
Four: How Solution Focused Conversations Changed My Practice: A reflection on the Synergy of Bioethics Consults and a Solution-Focused Approach
Dolly Menna-Dack, MHSc
Section Two: Clinical Applictations
Five: A Solution-Focused Approach for Health Care Providers Supporting Autistic Children & Youth
Moira Peña OT Reg. (Ont.)
Six: Dealing With Behaviour: Collaborative Behaviour Support Heidi Schwellnuss, PhD. Brian Freel
Seven: A Humanistic, Solution-Focused Approach with Older Adults
Jacqueline Carver, MSW, LISW
Gilbert J. Greene, Ph.D., LISW
Eight: Humanistic, Solution Focused Nursing in The Pediatric Psychopharmacology Clinic: An Antidote to Burnout
Cathy Petta, RN
Nine: Solution-focused Healthcare: Application and Benefits in Occupational Therapy
Amanda Musto, OT Reg. (Ont.)
Section Three: Lived Experience
Ten: A Discussion Of Solution Focused Praxis Through A Lived Experience Of Disability
Wesley Magee-Saxton
Eleven: Embracing a Humanistic Solution-Focused Approach: Implications for Me Living with Cerebral Palsy (CP) and My Family
Nikky Henderson
Twelve: The Power of Compassion and Gratitude
Gunjan Seth
Thirteen: Reflections and Observations as a Parent and Coach of a Child who Triumphed over Tribulation
Candace Muskat
Section Four: Leadership
Fourteen: A Humanistic, Solution-Focused Approach: Implications for the Legal System
Anna Trbovich
Fifteen: A Humanistic, Solution-Focused Approach to Meeting the Challenges in Education
Kim Weishar
Sixteen: Humanistic Solution-Focused Healthcare Leadership:Fostering psychological well-being and psychological safety
Amy Hu
Sarah Keenan
Seventeen: Humanistic, Solution-Focused Implementation: Organization and System Implications
Joanne Maxwell
Biography
Dr Elaine Cook: Elaine is the Manager Humanistic Education & Training at Holland Bloorview Kid’s Rehabilitation Hospital. Her research focus is the neuroscience of optimal functioning and language.
Dr. Gilbert J. Greene: Gil is Professor Emeritus at The Ohio State University in the College of Social Work
Joanne Maxwell PhD: is Interim Lead, Experience, Transformation and Social Accountability as well as Senior Director, Collaborative Practice and Clinical Education. Her research interests include transitions in care, client and family centred care
