Nutrition Therapy Advanced Counseling Skills

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.

Table Of Contents

Dedication
Preface
Contributors

Introduction

Part I: THE PEOPLE INVOLVED
Chapter 1: The Nutrition Therapist
Chapter 2: Counseling: Child, Adolescent, and Family
Chapter 3: Counseling: The Adult Learner
Chapter 4: Personality Styles
Chapter 5: Cultural Competency in Counseling
Chapter 6: Assuring and Measuring Professional Competence

Part II: INTEGRATING THEORY, SKILLS, AND PRACTICE
Chapter 7: Physical and Psychosocial Assessment
Chapter 8: Counseling Skills for Behavior Change
Chapter 9: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Chapter 10: Inpatient Counseling and the Continuum of Care
Chapter 11: Group Therapy
Chapter 12: Exercise Resistance, Obsession, and Recommendations
Chapter 13: The Challenge of Maintaining Change

Part III: DEALING WITH WEIGHT AND CHRONIC DISEASE
Chapter 15: Weight Management: Counseling Challenges in Lifestyle Management
Chapter 16: Empowerment Counseling: Using the Feminist Therapy Perspective
Chapter 17: Counseling Clients with Eating Disorders
Chapter 18: Counseling People with Chronic Disease
Chapter 19: Motivational Interviewing and Diabetes Education
Chapter 20: Renal Disease
Chapter 21: Counseling a Person with HIV/AIDS
Chapter 22: End-of-Life Counseling

Part IV: MAXIMIZING SUCCESS
Chapter 22: Reimbursement, Documentation, and HIPAA
Chapter 23: Successful Business Skills

Appendices

Index