Prepared for IUPUI Office of Health and Wellness Promotion
Recommendation Report: Increasing Student Engagement in Wellness Coaching
Annotated Bibliography
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Usefulness of a Health and Wellness Coach
Araujo, M. (2020, March 11). When might you need a wellness coach? Verywell Fit.
https://www.verywellfit.com/what-is-a-wellness-coach-when-do-you-need-one-4175824
ABSTRACT: Araujo answers many questions in this article regarding health and wellness coaching. Araujo uses a detailed step by step process on health and wellness coaching starting with an in depth description about what a health and wellness coach offers for a service. There are suggestions about how to locate health and wellness coaches and how to decide who is right for what someone needs in a coach. The author then goes on to discuss the most important and relevant information to this project. Araujo discusses when and why someone would need a health and wellness coach. There is a list of real life examples of when people have benefitted from many different kinds of health and wellness coaching.
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Social Focused Wellness Benefits for Students and Staff
Beauchemin, J. (2018). Solution-Focused Wellness: A Randomized Controlled Trial of College
Students. Health and Social Work of Oxford University Press, 43(2), 94-100.
ABSTRACT: Higher education programs often take place in large classrooms with many students. In an experiment conducted on college students results found that a student feels less stressed in a smaller group, rather than a large classroom or one on one. Wellness programs taking it to the next level and making it a social reaction can benefit many students to be potentially supported. When wellness programs are expanded to a social level it can increase student wellness that can last through multiple semesters and decrease stress levels experienced throughout every year of college.
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Improvements in Health Behaviors in Wellness Coaching
Clark, M. M., Bradley, K. L., Jenkins, S. M., Mettler, E. A., Larson, B. G., Preston, H. R., Liesinger, J. T.,
Werneburg, B. L., Hagen, P. T., Harris, A. M., Riley, B. A., Olsen, K. D., & Vickers Douglas, K. S. (2016).
Improvements in health behaviors, eating self-efficacy, and goal-setting skills following participation in
wellness coaching. American Journal of Health Promotion, 30(6), 458–464.
https://doi.org/10.4278/ajhp.140627-QUAL-304
ABSTRACT: Many companies are offering health and wellness coaching to help employees improve their health, quality of life, and help them reach their full potential. “Recently, Mettler and colleagues found that participation in wellness coaching improved motivation, importance, and confidence for making positive health and behavior change in such areas of life satisfaction, energy level, healthy weight, physical activity, nutrition, managing health, and mental fitness.” Outcomes from this study varied person to person, but all included certain changes cuh as behavioral, cognitive, and interpersonal. The means of this study examined if participants improved in key domains for a successful long-term behavior.
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Social Media as a Communication Tool to Students
Emerick, E., Caldarella, P., & Black, S. J. (2019). Benefits and distractions of social media as tools for
undergraduate student learning. College Student Journal, 265-276.
ABSTRACT: Social media has been around for years and is constantly evolving and adapting to what is new. Using social media as a connection tool for students can be distracting, but beneficial. The lack of social media is the temptation to look at anything. Teachers may struggle with certain students not completing the task at hand. Although this tool, helps professors reach students on their level. From which social media account that was most popular to students, it was Facebook. Facebook has been a wide branded market, though recently took over Instagram. That addition, would thrust Instagram possibly to the top of the scale. IUPUI could use this information to see how they can use social media as a marketing unit and tool.
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Health & Wellness at IUPUI
IUPUI. (2020). Health & Wellness. IUPUI Jaguar Life. https://www.iupui.edu/jaguar-life/health-wellness.html
ABSTRACT: The Office of Health and Wellness Promotion offers a holistic approach to health and wellness of the students at IUPUI. IUPUI offers classes on drug and alcohol education and prevention, sexual health education courses, and many other educational courses pertaining to health and wellness. The Office of Health and Wellness Promotion has full time employed health and wellness coaches that work with students for their specific needs. When these coaches are not qualified for a certain student’s requests, they are referred to the best alternative IUPUI option.
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Different Aspects of Counseling and Coaching at IUPUI
IUPUI Division of Student Affairs (2020a). Counseling & mental health services. IUPUI Division of Student
Affairs. https://studentaffairs.iupui.edu/health/counseling-psychological/index.html
ABSTRACT: The novel coronavirus brought more than just the average challenges many individuals face. It is important to make sure that after all everyone is taking care of themselves. IUPUI offers free counseling services to anyone who is a member there on campus. A health and wellness coach cannot give the same advice as the counselors. Instead they provide helpful ways to work through the hard struggles of today. Different services are offered including virtual care packages, emotional wellness, self-screening, and self-help tools. Virtual appointments have also been available to students. Privacy is especially important to staff and students. Through virtual blockers online and private rooms, discussions are safe. For students to sign up they just click on the link or talk with their health and wellness coach in specifically getting an appointment. While health and wellness coaching are different from counseling, it is important for coaches to address these opportunities to students.
Health and Wellness Coaching at IUPUI
IUPUI Division of Student Affairs (2020b). Health and wellness coaching. IUPUI Division of Student Affairs
https://studentaffairs.iupui.edu/health/wellness-programs/coaching/index.html
ABSTRACT: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis has a new program called Health and Wellness Coaching. Wellness coaching is free for all students, and allows each student who participates to understand the life he or she wants, and will help uncover values and desires. “Coaching typically focuses on topics such as physical, emotional well-being, goal setting, stress reduction, and time management.” After the discovery, the coaches will help each student how to apply these values into his or her life, on a daily basis, in order to maintain a healthy mindset that will last a lifetime. for making positive health and behavior change in such areas of life satisfaction, energy level, healthy weight, physical activity, nutrition, managing health, and mental fitness.” Outcomes from this study varied person to person, but all included certain changes cuh as behavioral, cognitive, and interpersonal. The means of this study examined if participants improved in key domains for a successful long-term behavior.
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Services Provided Through IUPUI within Counseling and Coaching
IUPUI Division of Student Affairs. (2020c). Self-screening tools. IUPUI Division of Student Affairs.
https://studentaffairs.iupui.edu/health/wellness-programs/self-screening-tools.html
ABSTRACT: Self screening tools help those to learn about their own health. IUPUI offers an online screening in different areas: physically, mentally, emotionally, etc. With specific counseling, the test can lead you to counselors on campus that help students. Another form of communication can be through health and wellness coaching. They have provided services to help people reach their goals. Wellness does not just come in one form, but in eight forms. College was stressful for many students and is, but IUPUI Self Screening helps provide knowledge on someone that they did not even know. Health and Wellness coaches can influence those who take the self-screening test or can lead them on how to get the information. The main goal has been to have a healthy balance between college, work, and wellness. Through taking a self-survey, students had the ability to improve their balance on campus.
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Commons Practice of Health and Wellness Coaching
Occhipinti, A. (2020, September 01). What You Can and Can't Do As a Health & Wellness Coach. AFPA.
https://www.afpafitness.com/blog/what-you-can-and-cant-do-as-a-health-wellness-coach
ABSTRACT: Health and wellness coaching is used to help people through certain and particular difficulties they face in their daily lives. The most vital part of this process is the actions of the coach. AFPA offers information on how to become a health and wellness coach and what the benefits are of becoming a coach. Health and wellness coaches can assist in helping with smoking, losing weight, dieting, and prioritizing self-care. AFPA website offers certification programs and clients testimonials.
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Benefits to College Students for Counseling
Muktiyanto, A., Hartati, N., Hadiwidjaja,, R. D., & I. (2016). Exploring the benefits of counseling. " For students in
a higher education institution. Retrieved October 1, 2020, from http://repository.ut.ac.id/7349/1/AAOU2016.pdf
ABSTRACT: Among other years many students are having to take distanced courses in the form of online. The students struggle with the forced lack of social content. Many benefits can come from counseling and coaching within school systems. It is important that colleges provide some sources through which students can reach out. Counseling is the only form of support as it can come from coaching and other programs the school has. Results from giving students this access state an increase in the learning process and performing better. In times as these, support from afar is just as important as academic learning itself. Students knowing the knowledge of these programs should be apt to join as a success to their career. Joining support systems as these are just what the coaching office as IUPUI offer. Many colleges have been taking advantage of online technologies as Zoom calls making students have more abilities to succeed.
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Commons Practice of Health and Wellness Coaching
Occhipinti, A. (2020, September 01). What You Can and Can't Do As a Health & Wellness Coach. AFPA.
https://www.afpafitness.com/blog/what-you-can-and-cant-do-as-a-health-wellness-coach
ABSTRACT: Health and wellness coaching is used to help people through certain and particular difficulties they face in their daily lives. The most vital part of this process is the actions of the coach. AFPA offers information on how to become a health and wellness coach and what the benefits are of becoming a coach. Health and wellness coaches can assist in helping with smoking, losing weight, dieting, and prioritizing self-care. AFPA website offers certification programs and clients testimonials.
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Benefits of Small Groups in Health and Wellness
Pollock, P., Hamann, K., & Wilson, B. (2011). Learning Through Discussions: Comparing the benefits of small-
group and large-class settings. Journal of Political Science Education, 7, 7, 1551-2177.
doi:10.1080/15512169.2011.539913
ABSTRACT: Small groups provide students with a feeling of being heard and expressing thoughts easily. Performing an experiment upon students helped figure out what best supported students in their modes. Results expressed that students in small groups feel more supported and eased by being placed. It also helped students get to know each other better. Bring down the pressure of being in a one on one meeting or a large classroom increases understanding. The other end was the result of being in such a large group that often times people may feel unheard of not even present.
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Importance and Usefulness of Health and Wellness Coaching
Rentaria, Ashleigh A. “Wellness Coaching: Helping Students Thrive.” Colorado State Journal of Student Affairs.
Volume XXIV. Print 2015. Pages 23-43.
ABSTRACT: In the journal of student affairs from Colorado State University in 2015, the authors outline the importance of health and wellness coaching at the university and specifically references a survey that describes the usefulness of different dimensions of health and wellness coaching. The journal summarizes the statistics provided by their Office of Health and Wellness relating to student engagement, demographics, and desired coaching strategies. A post session survey articulates the successful effect that these health and wellness programs had on the students at Colorado State.
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The Need for Coaching and Counseling in the Midst of a Pandemic
Rosen, C. S., Morland, L. A., Glassman, L. H., Marx, B. P., Weaver, K., Smith, C. A., . . . Schnurr, P. P. (2020).
Virtual mental health care in the Veterans Health Administration’s immediate response to coronavirus
disease-19. American Psychologist. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000751
ABSTRACT: The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way many support systems are having to give appointments. Amid higher education, it causes students and individuals much fear and anxiety on top of schools. The limit to in-person contact creates a lack of social environment at school. Having the flexibility for students provides them with the ability to keep contact. Online presentation for the coaching program is made at IUPUI. Up to 75% of individuals suffer from post-traumatic stress symptoms following Coronavirus. Originally these sources were used as a backup plan or alternative, but due to options they have been limited. Through the coaching program at IUPUI students are available to reach out for support and work through the impossible difficulties of COVID-19 and college.
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Peer Coaching is Beneficial to Coaches and Participants
Swarbrick, M., Gill, K. J., & Pratt, C. W. (2016). Impact of Peer Delivered Wellness Coaching. Psychiatric
Rehabilitation Journal, 39(3) 234-238. https://doi.org/10.1037/prj0000187
ABSTRACT: Peer wellness coaching allows students to pursue specific wellness goals, improve goal attainment, and have overall higher health-related quality of life. Coaching participants and peer coaches report significant progress towards attaining life goals at two to four weeks. After eight to ten weeks, improvements were evident in perceived health. These improvements were sustained ninety days later.
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Wellness Coaching Questions
Wellness Coaching FAQ. Division of Student Affairs. https://studentaffairs.iupui.edu/health/wellness-
programs/coaching/coaching-faq.html.
ABSTRACT: Health and wellness is not a form of counseling, but is solely focused on behavior change. “Coaches can work with students with mental health concerns as long as they are not addressing those as their primary form of treatment -- i.e., helping someone who is also being treated for depression work on their time management skills.” There are eight dimensions of wellness, which are the key focus for the coaches, professional staff members and graduate students, in order to help benefit each student to become the better version of themselves. At IUPUI there are no limits to the number of sessions given for each student, they typically offer four to six meetings at one hour each, and slowly meeting less and less depending on progress.
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Defining Health and Wellness Coaching
What is wellness coaching? (n.d.). Retrieved October 02, 2020,
from https://www.beaconhealthsystem.org/beacon-health-fitness/wellness-coaching/
ABSTRACT: Beacon Health and Fitness is an organization that offers health and wellness coaching in a variety of ways. This site can be used to compare services, staffing, and value that people are getting both from Beacon Health and Fitness and the IUPUI Health and Wellness group. Beacon offers a very detailed description of the services they offer and what exactly needs to happen for a client to find success with their health and wellness coaches. Staff members are presented via career bios that outline the experience and specialties of the different staff members. Beacon Health and Fitness is an established health and wellness coaching organization with many clients. The company will be a great resource in recommending improvements for the IUPUI Health and Wellness group.
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Using Social Media as an Advertising Unit to Higher Education Users
Zenith, M., & Radhika, R. (n.d.). Forecasting the impact of social media advertising among college students
using higher order statistical functions. Retrieved October 27, 2020, from https://www.scpe.org/
ABSTRACT: Social media is often used for people to talk about their lives and share opinions, but can also be used as a marketing tool. For college students now days, social media is not uncommon whatsoever. Majority of students has an account on multiple platforms. When marketing on social media, make it specific to the group you are targeting. For IUPUI this may be graduating students or those of a specific group or race. Clearly stating who you are going after is the best ways to reach those groups. Perhaps you can use certain activities or meetings to express best what is trying to be conveyed. IUPUI can use this service as a clear representation to be concise with what they are trying to say and do.