'Co-active coaching' could help HIV patients. New type of counseling involves goal-setting.
A counseling technique that takes an action-oriented approach to helping people make major life changes, much used by business executives and other professionals in recent years, now appears to offer some value to HIV patients. Co-active coaching could be a solution to mild depression and inertia for some HIV-infected patients who have difficulty making decisions about how to spend a life-time living with the disease.
Garfinkel
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Rocket Science Coaching and Consulting, San Francisco, USA.
Blumenthal
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D003376:Counseling; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D012649:Self Concept