Nutrition Counseling and Food Science
Nutrition Counseling and Food Science
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 an ongoing process as require change in strategy in various 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 ?
Question Answer Session