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Nutrition Counseling and Educational Skill Development, Bauer and Liou
Chapter 1- Preparing to Meet Your Clients

Gemma Bridge

Nutrition counselors and educators provide guidance for helping individuals develop food practices consistent with the
nutritional needs of their bodies
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Nutrition education and counseling
Nutrition education is any combination of educational strategies, accomplished by environmental supports, designed to
facilitate voluntary adoption of food choices and other food and nutrition related behaviors conductive to health and
well being
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Nutrition counseling is the process of guiding a client towards a healthy nutritional lifestyle by meeting nutritional needs
and solving problems that are barriers to change
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Food behavior
In both nutrition education and counseling, it is key for the nutrition professional to provide support and guidance to
allow individuals to make appropriate food choices for their needs
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These include:
 Taste
o Most important determinant
o Evolve from childhood
o Taste preferences can be modified
 Cost and socioeconomic status
o Low income house holds spend far less on fruits and vegetables
 Convenience
o Fast food culture has led to demand for easy to prepare foods
o Take out, pre-prepared and readymade foods are a cultural standard
 Variety
o Can lead to over eating
o But variety is needed to meet all nutritional goals
 Knowledge
o Greater nutrition knowledge has been linked with an improved individual’s diet
 Wellbeing
o Health concerns can result in increased consumption of ‘healthy’ foods e
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fruit/veg
o Health status/ disease can affect how much/ what foods people can eat e
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if they have no teeth
 Self expression
 Social influences
o Food is an integral part of social gatherings
o Usually not nutritious foods e
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This relationship can be the
reason for the success or failure of an interaction
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Self- awareness
a
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Solid knowledge
a
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Must be willing to keep up with the ever changing field of nutrition
3
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Value the dignity and worth of all people
b
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Congruence
a
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No contractions between what the counselor says and who they are
c
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Communicate clearly
6
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Sense of humor
8
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Flexible
10
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Empathetic
The counseling relationship
The relationship is divided into two phases:
1) Building a relationship – learn about the problem, explore strengths and promote self exploration
a
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Show empathy
c
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Clients must be open and honest about what they are willing and not willing to do
b
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Feelings of inadequacy can result in reluctance to handle
controversial nutrition topics and issues
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 Counselors should aim to present reliable and substantiated information and interpret controversial information
without personal bias, recognizing legitimate differences of opinion do exist
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 Combining both roles can lead to effective interventions



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