• End-of-life counseling chapter offers effective strategies for counseling patents in the final stages of life.
• Learning activities in each chapter, including case studies and critical thinking exercises, put your skills to practice in managing common clinical situations.
• Insight boxes highlight tips and suggestions that improve your counseling skills.

Plus more features and benefits:

• Chapter objectives focus your attention on the key competencies that are mastered upon successful completion of the chapter.
• Numerous examples help you adapt and apply your skills in prevention, chronic care, outpatient and inpatient settings.
• Samples of office forms and privacy/confidentiality handouts serve as a convenient resource for your practice.

Coverage runs the gamut from such practical issues as reimbursement and business skills to complex issues involved in managing angry patients and counseling patients dealing with obesity, eating disorders and chronic disease. Whatever your patients’ particular issues may be, Nutrition Therapy lets you advance beyond giving information to helping patients develop and maintain healthy nutritional strategies.

Level: Advanced
ISBN: 0781777984
ISBN-13: 9780781777988
Format: Textbook Paperback, 464pp
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Edition Number: 3
Pub date: 2007

Contents
Dedication
Preface
Chapter Contributors
Part I. The People Involve
1. The Nutrition Therapist
2. Counseling: Child, Adolescent, and Family
3. Counseling: The Adult Learner
4. Personality Styles
5. Cultural Competency in Counseling
6. Assuring and Measuring Professional Competence
Part II. 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. Exercise Resistance, Obsession, and Recommendations
13. The Challenge of Maintaining Change
Part III. Dealing with Weight and Chronic Disease
14. Weight Management: Counseling Challenges in Lifestyle Management
15. Empowerment Counseling: Using the Feminist Therapy Perspective
16. Counseling Clients with Eating Disorders
17. Counseling People with Chronic Disease
18. Motivational Interviewing and Diabetes Education
19. Renal disease
20. Counseling a Person with HIV/AIDS
21. End of Life Counseling
Part IV. Maximizing Success
22. Reimbursement, Documentation, and HIPAA
23. Successful Business Skills
Appendices
Index

Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 3
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
1040 Cultural sensitivity
1060 Foreign language, cultures
1070 Leadership, critical and strategic thinking
3000 Nutrition assessment
4000 Wellness and public health
4030 Dietary guidelies, DRIs, Food Guide Pyramid, food labeling
6000 Education, training and counseling
6010 Behavior change theories, techniques
6020 Counseling, therapy and facilitation skills
6030 Education theories and techniques for adults
6040 Education theories and techniques for children and adolescents
6050 Instructional materials development
7040 Consultation