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Whole Health Action Management

Whole Health Action Management is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Whole Health Action Management rather than just read about it. In short: Whole Health Action Management (WHAM) is a peer-led intervention to facilitate self-management to reach whole health goals through peer coaching and support groups. It is a method of using peer support to support healthcare delivery, and to counter high rates of chronic physical health conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity among those with behavioral health diagnoses.

Key takeaways

Whole Health Action Management belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Whole Health Action Management to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Whole Health Action Management from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Whole Health Action Management (WHAM) is a peer-led intervention to facilitate self-management to reach whole health goals through peer coaching and support groups. It is a method of using peer support to support healthcare delivery, and to counter high rates of chronic physical health conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity among those with behavioral health diagnoses. The SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions (CIHS) developed the WHAM program to "encourage increased resiliency, wellness, and self-management of health and behavioral health among people with mental illnesses, substance use disorders, and chronic physical health conditions." WHAM is based on a collaboration between peers and health professionals. Peers encourage clients to get routine health exams and comply with physician recommendations. They frequently discuss common health behaviors such as smoking cessation, physical exercise, stress reduction, and healthy food choices. WHAM is very similar to Peer Support Whole Health and Resiliency WHAM facilitators participate in a 2-day training, which then enables them to train others in WHAM. Participants receive six hours of instruction spread over up to three weeks, followed by an 8-week WHAM-focused support group as they work toward, achieve, and maintain whole health goals.

History The WHAM model is based on a pilot program led by Larry Fricks when in 2013 Georgia received federal approval to bill Medicaid for peer support specialists to provide health coaching., as well as the earlier the chronic disease self-management Health and Recovery Peer (HARP) Program. Since then, Fricks and his colleagues have trained peers across the country on the model under the name Whole Health Action Management. In 2014, Spanish-language resources were produced to implement the program in the Latino community. Presbyterian Healthcare Services in New Mexico has trained over 600 of their staff in WHAM. Between 2012 and 2016, over 3000 people have been trained in the WHAM model.

Content WHAM facilitators are trained in teaching skills to promote health factors utilizing a "whole health perspective". These skills target the following health factors:

Stress management Healthy eating Physical activity Restful sleep Service to others Support network Optimism based on positive expectations Cognitive skills to avoid negative thinking Spiritual beliefs and practices A sense of meaning and purpose Peer specialists are trained to help clients:

Elicit the relaxation response to manage stress Engage in cognitive skills to avoid negative thinking Identify strengths and supports in 10 science-based whole health and resiliency factors Know basic whole health screenings and prepare for them Participate in peer support to create new health behavior Write a concise and achievable whole health goal and weekly action plans as part of a person-centered planning process Use shared decision-making skills and tools for engaging with doctors

See also Patient participation Peer support Person-centered care Wellness Recovery Action Plan

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Whole Health Action Management

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Whole Health Action Management claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Whole Health Action Management before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Whole Health Action Management ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Whole Health Action Management

In research: Whole Health Action Management appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Whole Health Action Management in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Whole Health Action Management is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Addiction psychiatry, Patient advocacy, Peer support, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Whole Health Action Management outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Whole Health Action Management in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Whole Health Action Management means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Whole Health Action Management out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Whole Health Action Management in simple terms?

Why does Whole Health Action Management matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Whole Health Action Management?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Whole Health Action Management.