CH: 5 Nutrition Counseling

Lecturer: Mr , Abdikafi Suge

suge344@gmail.com
Nutrition Counseling
 Counseling
• Counseling is giving professional advice to
individual to help resolve personal,
occupational, psychological or other problems.
 Who is Counselor?
• Counselor: someone who is trained to listen
to people and give them advice or solution to
their problems.
 Types of Counseling
• Marriage and family counseling.
• Guidance and career counseling.
• Rehabilitation counseling.
• Mental health counseling.
• Substance abuse counseling.
• Educational Counseling.
• Nutritional Counseling.
 Purpose of Counseling
• Counseling is to help people use their existing
problem-solving skills in meaningful way.
• Counselor provides an opportunity and platform
to the person to describe their feelings and
problems for themselves to find solutions.
• Counselors can’t ‘fix’ other people’s problems.
 Steps in Counseling
• Initial Phase

• Middle Phase

• Termination Phase
 Initial Phase of Counseling
• Focus on Rapport building
• Listen to the problem
• Information orientation
• Goal setting
 Middle phase of Counseling
• Action phase
• Assessment and diagnosis
• Focused on available solutions
• Selection of working solution
• Multi-focused approach
 Termination Phase
• Problem solving
• Evaluation of process
• Termination
• Follow up
 Nutrition Counseling
• Nutrition counseling is anongoing process as
require change in Strategy

circumstances.
• Focus on an individual to assess his or her usual
dietary intake and identify areas where change
is needed.
 Essentials of Nutritional Counseling
• Information gathering during nutrition screening leads to
setting goals for nutrition education and counseling
sessions.
• Providing evidence based information around nutrition
and its effects on one’s different aspects of health-
physical, emotional and cognitive
• Providing educational materials that reinforce messages
about healthy eating and dispel various myths.
 Motivation is Important
• No counseling is effective until the counselor
works on Motivation
• Assess motivation and develop strategy to keep
that going
• Identify the best course of action to facilitate
dietary change.
• Reinforce commitment and continue working on
changes and new positive behaviors.
 How it works ?
• Nutritional counseling focused on:
• What to eat ?
• How much to eat ?
• When to eat ?
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