Lawson Karen
Center for Spirituality & Healing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States.
Glob Adv Health Med. 2013 May;2(3):6-8. doi: 10.7453/gahmj.2013.038.
In this special themed issue of Global Advances in Health and Medicine and in articles published on the journal's website (www.gahmj.com), you will read all about this new and maturing approach to health behavior change and the social and cultural conditions in modern medicine that have called this practice into being. You will learn about its inception and history,(1) the philosophic constructs of its application,(2) (,) (3) and its proposed mechanism of action.(4) There are multiple case reports(5) (-) (7) and clinical studies(8) (-) (10) expanding our scientific understanding of coaching in health and wellness and descriptions about how to educate professionals to provide this new service.(11) (,) (12) A review of existing literature in the field demonstrates the rapidly growing reported demonstration of its impact.(13) I believe coaching is poised to have a major transformative impact on health and healthcare internationally; it also is at risk of being usurped and thereby deformed by the power of the existing paradigm of Western disease care and reductionistic scientific thought. That is the issue I wish to raise: How do we ensure the integrity of this new approach so that it can serve as a bridge from a broken system to a new horizon of holistic health and well-being?
在《全球健康与医学进展》的这一专题特刊以及发表在该期刊网站（www.gahmj.com）上的文章中，你将全面了解这种新兴且日趋成熟的健康行为改变方法，以及促使这种实践产生的现代医学中的社会和文化条件。你将了解其起源和历史，（1）其应用的哲学架构，（2）（，）（3）以及其提出的作用机制。（4）有多个病例报告（5）（ - ）（7）和临床研究（8）（ - ）（10）扩展了我们对健康与 wellness 领域中指导的科学理解，还有关于如何培训专业人员提供这项新服务的描述。（11）（，）（12）对该领域现有文献的综述表明，其影响的报道迅速增加。（13）我认为指导有望在国际上对健康和医疗保健产生重大变革性影响；它也有被现有西方疾病护理范式和还原论科学思维的力量篡夺并因此变形的风险。这就是我想提出的问题：我们如何确保这种新方法的完整性，使其能够成为从一个破碎的系统通向整体健康与幸福新视野的桥梁？
