Through appropriate counseling and intervention, nutritionists play an important role in encouraging clients to make and maintain healthy dietary changes. Nutrition Counseling Skills for the Nutrition Care Process, Fourth Edition, provides the latest counseling theory and communication techniques for clinical and community settings within the context of the American Dietetic Association Nutrition Care Process. The Fourth Edition focuses on tailoring intervention strategies to a client's dietary needs through effective interviewing, assessment, and counseling. This revision addresses the unique needs nutrition counselors face regarding obesity, heart disease, diabetes, renal disease, hypertension, cancer, eating disorders, and pregnancy.

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This practical text presents a wealth of fresh ideas and techniques for strengthening counseling skills to face real-world issues in nutrition therapy. It offers students and practitioners advice on ways to increase referrals, decrease no-shows, and overcome common barriers to effective counseling. The Third Edition also explores strategies for counseling patients with AIDS, diabetes, and other chronic diseases, for group therapy, for teaching developmental skills, and for end-of-life counseling. This edition has a new reader-friendly design and layout. New learning activities—including case studies and critical thinking exercises—encourage students to apply what they have learned to common situations in clinical practice.

Now in vibrant full color, this updated Seventh Edition of Holli’s best-selling Nutrition Counseling and Education Skills: A Guide for Professionals helps students develop the communications, counseling, interviewing, motivational, and professional skills they’ll need as Registered Dietitian professionals. Throughout the book, the authors focus on effective nutrition interventions, evidence-based theories and models, clinical nutrition principles, and knowledge of behavioral science and educational approaches. Packed with activities, case studies, and self-assessment questions, the Seventh Edition features new content that reflects the latest changes in the field, new online videos that bring nutrition counseling techniques to life, and a powerful array of new and enhanced in-text and online learning tools.

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. (Includes FREE online biannual nutrition newsletter)

Abstract: This text is designed to help nutrition counselors perform their jobs more effectively and to supplement current practices in nutrition counseling. It is intended to demonstrate effective use of interviewing skills: select and apply appropriate strategies when presented with nutrition problems; evaluate progress, achievements, and failures in both clients and counselor; and adapt counseling strategies. Basic theories in interviewing and counseling skills are discussed. The application of interviewing and counseling skills is described: 1) low-calorie eating patterns and cholesterol; 2) low-carbohydrate eating patterns; 3) low protein eating patterns; 4) low-sodium eating patterns; 5) liberal bland diets; 6) and termination and follow-up. Each chapter concludes with a list of reference. A glossary and several appendices are included.

Marcia Herrin and Maria Larkin have collaborated on the second edition of Nutrition Counseling in the Treatment of Eating Disorders, infusing research-based approaches and their own clinically-refined tools for managing food and weight-related issues. New to this edition is a section on nutrition counseling interventions derived from cognitive behavioral therapy-enhanced, dialectical behavioral therapy, family-based treatment, and motivational interviewing techniques. Readers will appreciate the state of the art nutrition and weight assessment guidelines, the practical clinical techniques for managing bingeing, purging, excessive exercise, and weight restoration as well as the unique food planning approach developed by the authors. As a comprehensive overview of food and weight-related treatments, this book is an indispensible resource for nutrition counselors, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, physicians, and primary care providers.