To explore how clinician-delivered coaching in pediatric primary care can enhance early relational health and language development during well-child visits.
Approach:
Coaching Framework: The article discusses core coaching competencies such as trust-building, collaborative goal setting, reflective dialogue, and strengths-based feedback as a framework for reimagining the clinician's role as a coach.
Application in Pediatric Care: It proposes integrating coaching strategies into routine pediatric care to enhance parent engagement and support family-centered practice.
Key Findings:
Coaching has emerged as an effective approach to professional development in medicine.
Physicians can adopt coaching roles to support patient and family behavior change.
Core coaching principles are applicable to parent-child interactions in pediatric primary care.
Interpretation:
The article discusses reframing physicians as relational coaches to potentially enhance developmental outcomes for children through patient-centered practice.
Limitations:
The extent to which coaching competencies translate directly to pediatric care has not been empirically established.
Implementation strategies may require adaptation for time-limited pediatric primary care encounters.
Conclusion:
Integrating coaching into pediatric primary care may strengthen early developmental relationships and align with family-centered models of care.
