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Welcome

There is a growing recognition that simply educating patients is not enough to effectively bring about long-term behavior change.

Health Change Associates, in association with Health Change Australia, offers program implementation consultancy and professional development training in using the HCA Model of Health Change.

The HCA Model of Health Change is a clinical practice framework for integrating client-centered communication and behavior change principles and processes into clinical consultations and programs. It provides practitioners with an evidence-based health behavior change clinical pathway to complement usual clinical pathways for prevention and treatment of health conditions. The purpose of the model is to increase the likelihood that clients will act in accordance with lifestyle and treatment recommendations appropriate to their health condition/s. 

The HCA Model is comprised of: a foundation of six recommended knowledge and skills sets for clinicians; a set of practice principles to guide the clinical communication style, and a 10 Step framework which acts as a decision tool for clinicians to use in their consultations.

 

To read more on the HCA Model, click here to view the latest paper

What is Health Coaching and how does it relate to the HCA approach?

Health coaching programs have become a popular method to support people to engage in behavior change for chronic disease prevention, chronic condition self-management and rehabilitation from injury or illness. The most common delivery methods for health coaching interventions are telephone-delivered, face-to-face consultations or a combination of both, with or without web-based support.

HCA defines health coaching as a practice in which health practitioners apply evidence-based health behavior change principles and techniques to assist their clients to adhere to treatment and lifestyle recommendations, for the purpose of achieving better health outcomes or quality of life. Health coaching-based programs can use the HCA Model of Health Change as a practice framework to guide their health coaching conversations and to collect data to track intervention and behavior change processes.

The following diagram (click on the link below to download) shows where health coaching-based clinical consultations and programs sit in the health change spectrum. Most clinicians using the HCA approach do not identify themselves as health coaches, but rather as being client or patient-centered.

click here to download the Health Change Spectrum