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Practice Question #110:

A 55-year old male begins his 5th coaching session. He is decided that one of his goals was to eat more healthfully while he travels for work. He states that "eating healthy while traveling is so much harder than trying to eat healthy while he is at home."

Coach responds: Tell me about a time when you were traveling for work where you

were able to eat healthy.What technique of appreciative inquiry 5-D cycle is the coach demonstrating?

• Define
• Discover
• Dream
• Design

E. Destiny - CORRECT ANSWER: B. Discover

Practice Question #112:

A 38-year old woman speaks with the coach on the phone for her second session. The client has a goal to improve her sleep habits to reduce her overall stress level. Prior to this session, she took a strengths assessment. Her top five strengths were fairness, creativity, integrity, humility, and humor. Her five lowest categories were perseverance, hope, bravery, leadership, and gratitude.Which of the following is the most appropriate approach for this client?

• Encourage the client to engage in a gratitude practice
• Encourage the client to explore watching funny videos to reduce her stress
• Explore the client's strengths to find creative ways to meet her goals
• Suggest the client work on improving one of her lowest categories - CORRECT

ANSWER: C. Explore the client's strengths to find creative ways to meet her goals

Practice Question #113:

Client: I really don't want to drink water. Water is so boring!

Coach: Yep. It is your choice. No one can make you drink water.

In this scenario, the coach is demonstrating what skill?

• Emphasizing self-efficacy
• Emphasizing autonomy
• Evoking change talk

D. Reframing - CORRECT ANSWER: B. Emphasizing autonomy

Practice Question #114:

Selma is a 48 year old woman who is chatting with her coach during the third coaching session. She has stayed several times "I can't make weight loss work ever". She has 1 / 4

conveyed that weight loss has never worked for her several times and considers it "pointless".Coach: I really hear that you have tried weight loss many times and feel it hasn't worked for you and are just over it. I am not hear to force you to change. How would you feel if we spent more time understanding you and your vision as it relates to what is happening in your life right now?Based on the above scenario, it is most likely the client is in what stage of change?

• Pre-contemplation
• Contemplation
• Preparation

D. Action - CORRECT ANSWER: A. Pre-contemplation

Practice Question #115:

Brainstorming is a key skill in wellness coaching.For brainstorming to be most effective which of the following strategies are best?

• Go slow, deliberate, and be thoughtful
• Create 5 strong, detailed responses
• Be bold, visual, and go for quantity
• Have the client do 10 ideas, then coach - CORRECT ANSWER: C. Be bold, visual,

and go for quantity

Practice Question #116:

Your client Stuart is a 42 year old male that came to wellness coaching to help reduce his stress. It is his second session and the coach notices that Stuart has a waist circumference of 38 inches. according to his last healthcare visit paperwork. Which classification of risk for heart attack or stroke is Stuart in?

• Low risk
• Intermediate risk
• High risk

d. Very high risk - CORRECT ANSWER: b. Intermediate risk

Practice Question #117:

Lucia is a 62 year-old Latina woman who has a BMI of 24. She has a sister with Type II diabetes and was diagnosed with pre-diabetes. Which of the choices below is NOT a risk factor for Lucia for getting Type 2 Diabetes?

• Age

B. BMI

• Ethnicity

D. Sister with Type II Diabetes - CORRECT ANSWER: B. BMI

Practice Question #118:

F.A.S.T. is the acronym for recognizing signs and symptoms of what?

• Heart attack
• Stroke
• Concussion
• Diabetic shock - CORRECT ANSWER: b. Stroke 2 / 4

Practice Question #119:

A client came to her 5th session describing how completely fed up she is with her life.She describes being stressed, overwhelmed, and completely exhausted. The coach responds stating "in my last year of college I felt this same way; I totally get what you are saying". The coach's response would be best described as an example of what?

• Unconditional positive regard
• Rolling with resistance
• Sympathy

D. Role modeling - CORRECT ANSWER: C. Sympathy

Practice Question #120:

A client came to her 3rd session telling her coach she is ready to set some goals to "deal with her sweet tooth".

Coach: Where would you like to start?

Client: Well I don't think that my eating habits are really that big of a problem. I think in that area of my life I am doing just fine even though I don't like to cook and do love my sweets. I eat whatever I want and it's all good-I haven't had any problems.The client's response is an example of which of the following?

• Sustain talk
• Change talk
• Ambivalence

D. Reframing - CORRECT ANSWER: A. Sustain talk

Practice Question #121: Please Comment Your Answer Below. Answer posted 24 hours later. Look for the .A client came to his 5th session to work on his stress management. The coach matched her client's energy level and speaking style during the session which is an intentional strategy to strengthen what between the coach and client?

• Sympathy
• Mindful listening
• Rapport

D. Creativity - CORRECT ANSWER: C. Rapport

Practice Question #122:

Your client set the following goal: I will go to bed at 10:00 pm Monday through Friday.Which of the SMART acronym is the client missing?

• Specific
• Measurable

C. Time-bound - CORRECT ANSWER: C. Time-bound

Practice Question #123: Please Comment Your Answer Below. Answer posted 24 hours later. Look for the A client indicated in her wellness assessment that she plans to start exercising in the next thirty days. This client is most likely in what stage of change within the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change? 3 / 4

• Pre-contemplation
• Contemplation
• Preparation

D. Action - CORRECT ANSWER: C. Preparation

Practice Question #125:

Often coaches will include assessments for clients that measure how the client is doing in all dimensions of their wellness. If using the Six Dimensions of Wellness (Hettler,

1976), all six dimensions include:

• Emotional, occupational, physical, spiritual, intellectual, social
• Emotional, occupational, physical, environmental, financial, social
• Emotional, environmental, physical, religious, intellectual, social - CORRECT

ANSWER: A. Emotional, occupational, physical, spiritual, intellectual, social

Practice Question #126: Please Comment Your Answer Below. Answer posted 24 hours later. Look for the In expressing empathy within Nonviolent Communication, it is important to express feelings, not thoughts. Doing so staves off the tendency to judge, exaggerate, criticize, etc.Which of the following is an example of expressing a feeling?

• I feel like a failure.
• I feel it is useless.
• I feel that my boss in controlling.

D. I feel frustrated. - CORRECT ANSWER: D. I feel frustrated.

Practice Question #127:

A client came to her fifth coaching session very upset. She stated: "I am so freaking mad at my boss. He wants me to work 10 hour days just because he does. I'll never be able to get up early and meal prep."

The coach responds: "You could meal prep at night."

The coach is engaging in what strategy?

• Mindfulness
• Problem solving
• Unconditional positive regard

D. Educating - CORRECT ANSWER: B. Problem solving

(Note, coach is not supposed to problem solve.)

Practice Question #128:

A client has just completed their well-being assessment prior to their first coaching

session. The client's biometric information included the following:

Male

Age: 58

Self-Employed

Blood Pressure: 126/78 mmHG

Total Cholesterol: 189 ml/dL

BMI: 24

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