This ground-breaking text offers a practical, hands-on approach to nutrition counselling and communication based upon a theoretical model of counselling. Its problem-solving system teaches the reader how to effectively motivate a client to develop a healthy diet and/or solve medical nutrition problems. This text explains how to talk with patients about nutrition effectively. It offers detailed counseling and communications strategies, a wealth of case examples, and discussions of relevant social, cultural, and psychological factors that give readers a practical, hands-on approach to developing their counseling skills. Includes clinical examples, scenarios, and activities.

Comprehensive coverage of eating disorders, stresses how to identify potential disorders and offers strategies for preventing more serious disease. Discusses psychological concepts and emotional issues that provide insight into motivation and personality, explores how these relate to nutrition counselling, and then explains how to effectively facilitate a nutrition behaviour change. Reviews common medical problems at different stages of life, relating counselling techniques to specific developmental stages.Includes cross-cultural considerations for nutrition counselling, enabling the reader to provide culturally sensitive health care.

Offers discussions of ethics and professional considerations that affect all areas of dietetics and nutrition practice. Provides numerous case examples that illustrate practical nutrition applications. Appendices include worksheets, forms, exercises, nutrition counselling criteria and examples.

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