NASM Behavior Change Specialist Exam Questions With Complete Solutions.
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NASM Behavior Change Specialist Exam Questions With Complete Solutions.
Employers are recognizing not only the need for increased fitness but overall health in their employees. This has led to the rise of
corporate fitness programs
Guided self-help describes
a professional-client relationship...
NASM Behavior Change Specialist Exam Questions With
Complete Solutions.
Employers are recognizing not only the need for increased fitness but overall
health in their employees. This has led to the rise of
corporate fitness programs
Guided self-help describes
a professional-client relationship that is supportive, positive, and goal-oriented so the
client can meet challenges along the way to achieving goals.
Both the OPT (Optimum Performance Training Model) and the Stages of Change
are different from traditional models of behavior change because
they take an individualized approach focusing on the individual client, the environment
in which he or she is placed, and what they are capable or ready to do
American adults have become more and more overweight over the years. Most
recently, approximately what percentage of adults are overweight and obese?
About 1/3 of American adults are obese and 2/3 are overweight.
A health and fitness professional working with a client on injury rehabilitation
generally will have the skills necessary to deal with the most prevalent problem in
rehabilitation, which is
adherence/compliance to the exercise regimen set by the physical therapist.
Health and Fitness Professionals specializing in Behavior Change need to abide
by a strict code of ethics with their clients. One important aspect of behaving in
an ethical manner is
making sure that they are working within their specific scope of practice and expertise.
Coaching in the wellness area is defined as
partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to
maximize their personal and professional potential.
Occupations such as personal trainer and health educator have grown in recent
years primarily due to
an increase in overweight and obesity in both adults and teenagers.
Certified Personal Trainers that have specialized in behavior change can use
behavior change skills
across a wide variety of client populations because the principles of behavior change do
not change across populations.
Health and fitness professionals specializing in behavior change
will be able to use scientifically validated screening and intervention techniques in a
guided self-help way to progress clients to results.
It is the ultimate goal of fitness coaches to
have clients develop the knowledge and skills that will make them responsible for their
own solutions.
The OSCAR model, which is a framework for a coaching engagement, is an
acronym for
outcome, situation, choices, actions, and review
Which of the following is an example of a helping profession that requires a
coaching role or relationship?
, Nutritionist
Active listening involves
listening intently and focusing attention on the client even though at times this requires
silence.
Coaches need to understand learning preferences and styles because
adults learn differently from each other and approach learning differently than do
children.
People learn by doing and feeling and rely more on intuition than logic. This is an
example of which of Kolb's learning styles?
Accommodating
Kolb's Learning Styles
Diverging: Feeling and Watching. Good at looking at things from different perspectives
Assimilating: Thinking and Watching. Concise, logical approach to ideas+concepts.
Ideas+Concepts > People.
Converging: Thinking and Doing. Learning to solve problems, find practical uses for
ideas/theories.
Accommodating: Feeling and Doing. Hands on, intuition > logic, gut instinct.
The term "unconditional positive regard" means that fitness coaches
believe that the client has the capacity to grow and find within themselves the answers
that they need.
Which of the following is a coaching communication competency?
Establishing trust and rapport
The OSCAR model of change is
a framework for coaching engagement which provides a clear structure for the coaching
process.
A coach in the helping profession
b. works with their clients to aid the client in setting realistic goals, making appropriate
choices, defining a program that will help the client reach his or her goals, monitoring
progress, and offering feedback.
Transtheoretical model of behavior change (TTM)
A model that focuses on a person's readiness to change. The TTM uses stages of
change to integrate principles and processes of change across major theories of
psychological change.
Based on the Symptoms Checklist, clients experiencing substantial amounts of
distress are at risk of
dropping out of a change-oriented intervention and thus may need more modest goals.
Lazarus' model of screening is multimodal because it
emphasizes the biological aspects of humans to include such things as behaving,
thinking, sensing, expressing, and imagining.
Lazarus' multimodal screening model is especially helpful to fitness
professionals because it
can help determine which interventions to use to initiate desired changes in clients
without actually developing a formal clinical diagnosis.
Lazarus' multimodal model is known through the mnemonic BASIC ID. This
stands for
behavior, affect, sensation, imagery, cognition, interpersonal, and drugs.
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