A registered health professional, who is an experienced social worker and family counselor with expertise in family/child counseling, held the role of the Lead Coach. Prior to launching the trial's pilot phase, the Lead Coach provided training to the four coaches. The hybrid training was delivered face-to-face and online in different formats, including individual, group activities, and learning workshops using a case-study approach. The main objectives of the training were to fortify coaches' skills in motivational (22 , 23 (link)) and solution-focused (24 , 25 (link)) interviewing techniques, individual and collaborative goal-setting, and shared decision-making in relation to the BRIGHT Coaching topics. Motivational and solution focused interviewing skills are applied by the coaches throughout the BRIGHT Coaching sessions to encourage parents' autonomy in decision-making and finding lasting solutions to issues as they witness their child's developmental challenges emerge. Using these two approaches, coaches act as guides, and actively engage parents. Coaches evoke and elicit parents' strengths and aspirations, listen to and work through their concerns, boosting their confidence in their ability for positive change.
Coaches received supporting training materials to deliver the intervention, including the Coach Manual. This manual outlines the coaching topics and contains cues and prompts to promote active engagement and participant's reflection. Moreover, to stimulate iterative training and support coaches' skills throughout the trial, ongoing training activities were organized and delivered by the Lead Coach in the form of individual/group discussions, experiential learning and sharing of best practices. Regular activities included bi-weekly individual meetings between the Lead Coach and each coach and weekly group meetings between the Lead Coach and all coaches. Continuing collaboration check-ins between the Lead Coach and participating coaches supported BRIGHT Coaching delivery.
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