Nutrition Counseling and Education Skill Development

Bauer et al. (nutrition counseling, nutrition education and social marketing, and dietetics, Montclair State U.) explain to new nutrition practitioners with little or no previous counseling experience (but who have knowledge of food and nutrition), especially those seeking to become registered dietitians, the basic components of changing food behavior and improving the nutritional status of clients. The text includes a step-by-step four-week guided nutrition counseling program. Along with updates to all chapters to incorporate recent professional standards, government guidelines, and research, this edition has an expanded scope to include elements of nutrition education. It includes an overview of the American Dietetic Association's Nutrition Care Process, with an emphasis on developing Problem-Etiology-Symptom statements and Assessment, Diagnosis, Intervention, Monitoring, and Evaluation documentation and more on the effectiveness of group work and motivational interviewing. Other updates include incorporation of factors affecting food behaviors; a new chapter on group facilitation and counseling; and a new chapter on cultural competence and special counseling, education, and communication issues for selected populations. It has new chapter assignments and activities, new sections on starting a private practice and marketing and technology, and other updates. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)