Nutrition Therapy: Advanced Counseling Skills, Third edition presents a wealth of fresh ideas and techniques for strengthening counseling skills to face real-world issues in nutrition therapy. It offers 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 readers to apply what they have learned to common situations in clinical practice.

Contents

The People Involved

1. The Nutrition Therapist
2. Counseling: Child, Adolescent, and Family
3. Counseling: The Adult Learner
4. Personal Styles
5. Cultural Competence in Counseling
6. Measuring and Assuring Competency

Integrating Theory, Skills, and Practice

7. Physical and Psychosocial Assessment
8. Counseling Skills for Behavior Change
9. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
10. Inpatient Counseling and the Continuum of Care
11. Group Therapy
12. Teaching Developmental Skills
13. Exercise Resistance, Addiction, and Recommendations
14. The Challenge of Maintaining Change

Dealing with Weight and Chronic Disease

15. Weight Management: Counseling Challenges in Lifestyle Management
16. Empowerment Counseling: Using the Feminist Therapy Perspective
17. Counseling Clients with Eating Disorders
18. Counseling People with Chronic Disease
19. Motivational Interviewing and Diabetes Education: Fostering Commitment to Change
20. Renal Disease
21. Counseling a Person with HIV/AIDS
22. End-of-Life Counseling

Maximizing Success

23. Reimbursement, Documentation, and HIPAA
24. Business Skills That Improve Your Success

Appendix
Index

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