Coaching for Person-Centred 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 implicat